API Problem

Fabio92 · February 27, 2013

Hi,

this is my first post. But i really can't manage to solve this problem. The api system has always worked well. But yesterday stopped working.

I'm using the default script:

<?php

$url = "http://www.domain.com/includes/api.php"; # URL to WHMCS API file

$username = "xxxxx"; # Admin username goes here

$password = "xxxxx"; # Admin password goes here

$postfields = array();

$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, true);

//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 100);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

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"];

}

?>

The problem is that the api gives no answer. I get this notices:

Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /home/admin/domains/domain.com/public_html/api_test.php on line 29

Notice: Undefined index: result in /home/admin/domains/domain.com/public_html/api_test.php on line 32

Notice: Undefined index: message in /home/admin/domains/domain.com/public_html/api_test.php on line 36

And only "The following error occured:" as result. Nothing else.

What do you think can happened? I have beed struggling for hours with no result....

Thank you so much.

gohigher · February 27, 2013

Try adding this line:

$info = curl_getinfo();

in between the lines that read:

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

So it looks like:

$data = curl_exec($ch);

$info = curl_getinfo();

curl_close($ch);

Then after the 'error occurred' output put this line in:

echo '<pre>'.print_r($info,1);

and see if you get an http response code. If you are getting a code of '0' then your firewall may be blocking your curl script and you need to whitelist your own IP address. Other codes would be helpful too... 403, 404 etc and should point you in the right direction.