Docusign REST API: Downloading document to string

Question

I am building an app using the docusign API and PHP. I have most of this working except I cannot figure out how to download the document. I have been searching on this site and

Answer 1

The content comes back as a file, you have to read the temp file and save that to the desired file

Quick snippet using file_get_contents and file_put_contents

$docStream = $envelopeApi->getDocument($accountId, 1, $envelopeId);
file_put_contents("my_document.pdf", file_get_contents($docStream->getPathname()));

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More info DocuSign REST API :: EnvelopeDocuments: get under Get a Single Document as a PDF File