PHP SDK for ActiveCollab 5 and 6 API

This is a simple PHP library that makes communication with Active Collab API easy.

Installation

If you choose to install this application with Composer instead of pulling down the git repository you will need to add a composer.json file to the location you would like to pull the repository down to featuring:

{
    "require": {
        "activecollab/activecollab-feather-sdk": "^3.0"
    }
}

Run a composer update to install the package.

Note: If you used an older version of Active Collab API wrapper and loaded it using dev-master, lock it to version 2.0 by setting require statement to ^2.0 and calling composer update.

Connecting to Active Collab Cloud Accounts

<?php

require_once '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

// Provide name of your company, name of the app that you are developing, your email address and password.
$authenticator = new \ActiveCollab\SDK\Authenticator\Cloud('ACME Inc', 'My Awesome Application', '[email protected]', 'hard to guess, easy to remember');

// Show all Active Collab 5 and up account that this user has access to.
print_r($authenticator->getAccounts());

// Show user details (first name, last name and avatar URL).
print_r($authenticator->getUser());

// Issue a token for account #123456789.
$token = $authenticator->issueToken(123456789);

// Did we get it?
if ($token instanceof \ActiveCollab\SDK\TokenInterface) {
    print $token->getUrl() . "\n";
    print $token->getToken() . "\n";
} else {
    print "Invalid response\n";
    die();
}

Connecting to Self-Hosted Active Collab Accounts

require_once '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

// Provide name of your company, name of the app that you are developing, your email address and password. Last parameter is URL where your Active Collab is installed.
$authenticator = new \ActiveCollab\SDK\Authenticator\SelfHosted('ACME Inc', 'My Awesome Application', '[email protected]', 'hard to guess, easy to remember', 'https://my.company.com/projects');

// Issue a token.
$token = $authenticator->issueToken();

// Did we get what we asked for?
if ($token instanceof \ActiveCollab\SDK\TokenInterface) {
    print $token->getUrl() . "\n";
    print $token->getToken() . "\n";
} else {
    print "Invalid response\n";
    die();
}

SSL problems?

If curl complains that SSL peer verification has failed, you can turn it off like this:

// Cloud
$authenticator = new \ActiveCollab\SDK\Authenticator\Cloud('ACME Inc', 'My Awesome Application', '[email protected]', 'hard to guess, easy to remember', false);
$authenticator->setSslVerifyPeer(false);

// Self-hosted
$authenticator = new \ActiveCollab\SDK\Authenticator\SelfHosted('ACME Inc', 'My Awesome Application', '[email protected]', 'hard to guess, easy to remember', 'https://my.company.com/projects', false);
$authenticator->setSslVerifyPeer(false);

// Client
$client = new \ActiveCollab\SDK\Client($token);
$client->setSslVerifyPeer(false);

Note: Option to turn off SSL peer verification has been added in Active Collab SDK 3.1.

Constructing a client instance

Once we have our token, we can construct a client and make API calls:

$client = new \ActiveCollab\SDK\Client($token);

Listing all tasks in project #65 is easy. Just call:

$client->get('projects/65/tasks');

To create a task, simply send a POST request:

try {
    $client->post('projects/65/tasks', [
      'name' => 'This is a task name',
      'assignee_id' => 48
    ]);
} catch(AppException $e) {
    print $e->getMessage() . '<br><br>';
    // var_dump($e->getServerResponse()); (need more info?)
}

To update a task, PUT request will be needed:

try {
    $client->put('projects/65/tasks/123', [
        'name' => 'Updated named'
    ]);
} catch(AppException $e) {
    print $e->getMessage() . '<br><br>';
    // var_dump($e->getServerResponse()); (need more info?)
}

post() and put() methods can take two arguments:

command (required) - API command,
variables - array of request variables (payload)

To remove a task, call:

try {
    $client->delete('projects/65/tasks/123');
} catch(AppException $e) {
    print $e->getMessage() . '<br><br>';
    // var_dump($e->getServerResponse()); (need more info?)
}

delete() method only requires command argument to be provided.

For full list of available API command, please check Active Collab API documentation.

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