How to use API returned variables

[silkhost]

Hello,

 

How do I access the returned variables when making an API call. I have tried many different ways to no avail. I am editting the supportticketslist.tpl. Here is what I have so far with all the fields changed for my site. The call is supposed to return the users data which I am trying to retrieve. For example, the clients email, companyname. Any help would be great.

 

 

$url = "http://www.mydomainlocation.com/whmcs/includes/api.php";

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

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

$postfields["username"] = $username;

$postfields["password"] = md5($password);

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

$postfields["email"] = "demo@whmcs.com";

[weyandch]

Heya silk,

 

I'm still reading in the API, ran no productive tests yet.. but accoring to their example in the manual you're missing this calls to curl:

 

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($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];
}

 

The $postfields-Array contains the APIcall, the return values will be saved to the $data Variable

[Nick]

Seeing as you're adding code to WHMCS you should simply be querying the database, rather than using the API, which opens a second, unnecessary, connection.

 

Set either $client_email to the email address of the client, or $client_id to the client's ID number before this code:

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `tblclients` WHERE ((`email` = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($client_email) . "') || (`id` = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($client_id) . "'));");
if(mysql_num_rows($query) != 1)
{
echo "Error!";
} else {
$data = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
echo $data['companyname'];
}

 

$data is now an array containing all the customer's details.