API Authentification Failed

[eccen]

I am having trouble trying to implement client add api...

I keep getting "The following error occured: Authentication Failed" in return.. and yes, I added correct IP address to API IP Access Restriction under Genera Settings > Security

 

Help please

 

Here is my testing code:

<?
$url = "http://www.mydomain.com/whmcs/includes/api.php";
$username = "admin";
$password = "adminpass"; 

$postfields["action"] = "addclient"; 
$postfields["firstname"] = "Test";
$postfields["lastname"] = "User";
$postfields["companyname"] = "WHMCS";
$postfields["email"] = "demo@whmcs.com";
$postfields["address1"] = "123 Demo Street";
$postfields["city"] = "Demo";
$postfields["state"] = "Florida";
$postfields["postcode"] = "AB123";
$postfields["country"] = "US";
$postfields["phonenumber"] = "123456789";
$postfields["password2"] = "demo";
$postfields["currency"] = "1";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$data = explode(";",$data);
foreach ($data AS $temp) {
 $temp = explode("=",$temp);
 $results[$temp[0]] = $temp[1];
}

if ($results["result"]=="success") {
 # Result was OK!
} else {
 # An error occured
 echo "The following error occured: ".$results["message"];
}
?>

[eccen]

Found a solution.

 

Change:

$username = "API-username"; # Admin username goes here
$password = "API-password"; # Admin password goes here

To:

$postfields["username"] = "API-username"; # Admin username goes here
$postfields["password"] = md5("API-password"); # Admin password goes here

 

Seems like WHMCS documentation has some false information

[tinderbox]

Took me an hour to find this. It would be awesome if WHMCS's own API docs weren't just flat out wrong.

[laszlof]

Took me an hour to find this. It would be awesome if WHMCS's own API docs weren't just flat out wrong.

 

They aren't wrong. This is directly from the API Example page:

 

<?php

$url = "http://www.yourdomain.com/whmcs/includes/api.php"; # URL to WHMCS API file
$username = "Admin"; # Admin username goes here
$password = "demo"; # Admin password goes here

$postfields["username"] = $username;
$postfields["password"] = md5($password);
$postfields["action"] = "addinvoicepayment"; #action performed by the API:Functions
$postfields["invoiceid"] = "1";
$postfields["transid"] = "TEST";
$postfields["gateway"] = "mailin";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$data = explode(";",$data);
foreach ($data AS $temp) {
 $temp = explode("=",$temp);
 $results[$temp[0]] = $temp[1];
}

if ($results["result"]=="success") {
 # Result was OK!
} else {
 # An error occured
 echo "The following error occured: ".$results["message"];
}

?>

 

You just left the first 2 postfields out.