Integrating WHMCS into my website

[vuamitom]

Hi friends,

 

I'm making a website that requires an invoicing system with customer support. We are considering WHMCS to handle the job for us.

 

After going through the documentation, I reckon that WHMCS maintains it own database with its own set of client, product ... information. However my current website need to maintain a similar set of data too, i.e client, product for some other tasks. I'm afraid that it will cause kind of data inconsistency if we use WHMCS in parallel with our website.

 

Though WHMCS provides some API to update/create user and order programatically, it doesn't wholly eliminate the possibility of disparity. Neither is it adequate (e.g no api to manage products, promotions ..)

 

Is there any other way to share the data between WHMCS and our own system? Any one has run through similar situation can help?

 

Thanks in advance.

[lazysheepmedia]

Can you provide some further information - is your website built from scratch or is it using a cms like Joomla for example?

 

Regards

 

Mark

[vuamitom]

Hi Mark,

 

The website is being built from scratch. In case you need to know, it's built using Grails, a Java framework. WHMCS seems to be in PHP. Yet the WHMCS api relies on url request only so I think that it will work with Java as well won't it?

[laszlof]

The API requests would work fine from java, you just need to use the proper functions to mimic the requests that curl is doing in PHP.

 

Since its custom coded, what keeps you from integrating your existing website to use the same database as WHMCS? You can add additional tables to the database without it causing any problems.

[oludimu]

Hello, I built my site with Dreamweaver with CSS, how can i integrate WHMCS into my website