'webViewLink' is empty/null when using PHP code sample

Question

Using the latest version of PHP apis from Google (0.60), the code sample from google developer page seems to work except that the 'webViewLink' field is empty/null when using 'print_r($createdFile)' at the end of the function.

The drive.google.com site for my Google Apps domain shows the new folder successfully created with public permissions.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

A "few" years later here's a working sample with a service account. I have a G Suite account and in https://admin.google.com/example.com/AdminHome?chromeless=1#OGX:ManageOauthClients I have set my API client to API scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive and then

include_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setAuthConfig('my_auth.json');
$client->addScope('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive');
$client->setSubject('admin.example.com');
$service = new Google_Service_Drive($client);
$x = $service->files->listFiles([
  'spaces' => 'drive', // this doesn't seem necessary
  'q' => 'name = "download"',
  'fields' => 'files(id, name, webViewLink, webContentLink)',
]);

Do pay attention to the fields argument: it does not retrieve anything but id and name if you leave it out.