Retrieve contents of a public Dropbox folder?

Question

Is there a way to retrieve a list of the contents of a public Dropbox folder (preferably in PHP)? This is what a URL to a public file in Dropbox looks like:

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Answer 1

UPDATE: I found a thread on the Dropbox forums where a user posts a link that claims to enable something pretty close to what I'm asking for. Guess what? It works! I don't know where it came from or where it's documented, but if it's helpful to anyone else, here it is (clicking this link will enable it and I don't know if it can be disabled. Proceed with caution):

https://www.dropbox.com/enable_shmodel

The resulting public folder looks like this: