Authentication failed on API integration

[didier1]

Hi, I started working with API and no matter what I tried, I received authentication failed whe naccessing my PHP file that is located on a different server. At first I was receiving the message that ask me to authorize my IP. I registered the IP adress of my external PHP server. Sicne then I am receving authentication failed. API user was created and given full permission. I am not using any symbol character and here's the coding in my PHP file. please help:

<?php

 

$url = "http://www.XXXX.ca/whmcs/includes/api.php"; # URL to WHMCS API file

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

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

 

$postfields["action"] = "getproducts";

$postfields["gid"] = "5";

 

$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"];

}

 

?>

[Kian]

You forgot to specify an access key.

[didier1]

Hi Kian and thanks for the quick reply. As per my understanding, the api key is in place so you dont have to register any IP. It has nothing to do with the error message : The following error occured: Authentication Failed.

 

However I respect your idea and I modified the configuration.php to includ:

 

$api_access_key = "XXXX";

 

I noticed that in the WHMCS documentation, they are asking to modify the PHP to includ : &accesskey=xxxxx , but I was running with an error message, I believe it should more look like that : $accesskey="XXXX";

 

$url = "http://www.immowebexpert.ca/whmcs/includes/api.php"; # URL to WHMCS API file

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

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

 

$postfields["action"] = "getproducts";

$postfields["gid"] = "5";

$accesskey="XXXX";

 

I am still receiving the same error message, I believe it has something to do with the apiadmin that I created.... thanks

[gohigher]

I believe you have to md5 the password... no?

 

$url = "http://www.XXXX.ca/whmcs/includes/api.php"; # URL to WHMCS API file
$username = "XXXX"; # Admin username goes here
$password = md5( trim( "XXXX" ) ); # Admin password goes here

[didier1]

Hi gohigher, still no luck with md5.

[gohigher]

I just realized, if that's the exact code you are using it looks like you aren't including the actual username / password in the postfields... it should be something like this:

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

$postfields["username"] = $username;
$postfields["password"] = md5( $password );
$postfields["action"] = "getproducts";
$postfields["gid"] = "5";
...

 

Try that and see if that helps out...

[Kian]

I just realized, if that's the exact code you are using it looks like you aren't including the actual username / password in the postfields... it should be something like this:

Eagle eye You are totally right.

[didier1]

yes that is correct, ist working now !