Need help: Creating an API key

[mojomedia]

Hi All

 

I am trying to integrate WHMCS to an app using Zapier and its asking for a API see below

Have no clue how to do this and don’t want to mess things up… any one can help? (will pay)

 

See the image below to get an idea of what is asked…

 

[wsa]

Hi, You can contact me here

[WHMCS ChrisD]

To create a API Access key, you simply need to configure by adding a line as follows to your configuration.php file in the root WHMCS directory.

 

$api_access_key = 'secret_key_passphrase_goes_here';

 

Your API Key should comprise of letters and numbers and maybe what ever you would like.

[sentq]

To create a API Access key, you simply need to configure by adding a line as follows to your configuration.php file in the root WHMCS directory.

 

$api_access_key = 'secret_key_passphrase_goes_here';

 

Your API Key should comprise of letters and numbers and maybe what ever you would like.

and here is the documentation URL for anyone need it: http://docs.whmcs.com/AutoAuth

[WHMCS ChrisD]

and here is the documentation URL for anyone need it: http://docs.whmcs.com/AutoAuth

 

Thats not the right documentation sentq. AutoAuth and the API use two different keys https://developers.whmcs.com/api/access-control/ is the one for the API

[twhiting9275]

here's a little fun function that will help you get the actual key, in case you don't want to have to create the key manually. Save as php file, anywhere is fine

<?php

function getRandomString($length = 15) {
$symb = $_GET['symb'];
if (isset($symb))
{
   $validCharacters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuxyvwzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUXYVWZ+-*#&@!?";
}
if (!isset($symb))
{
   $validCharacters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuxyvwzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUXYVWZ";
}
   $validCharNumber = strlen($validCharacters);

   $result = "";

   for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
       $index = mt_rand(0, $validCharNumber - 1);
       $result .= $validCharacters[$index];
   }

   return $result;
}

echo getRandomString();
?>

 

This will exclude most special characters that cause issues , but leave a few in there.