API Authentication Failure

[openmind]

OK something odd is up here. Basically I cannot authenticate successfully with the API. All the following have been checked:

 

The admin user has access to the API

The username being sent is correct

The password being sent is in MD5 format and is correct

The API URL is right

 

I've confirmed this on two installs both running the latest version and still get the authentication field.

 

Any ideas?

 

This is my code:

<cfquery datasource="helmdsn" name="getuser">
   SELECT *
   FROM account
   WHERE accountnumber=<cfqueryparam value="helmUserName" cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar">
</cfquery>
<cfset adminpassword=lcase(hash("myadminpassword", 'MD5'))>
<cfhttp url="http://www.whmcsinstallation.com/portal/includes/api.php" method="post">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="username" value="myadminuser">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="#adminpassword#" value="#adminpassword#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="action" value="addclient">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="firstname" value="#getuser.firstname#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="lastname" value="#getuser.lastname#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="companyname" value="#getuser.companyname#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="email" value="#getuser.primaryemail#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="address1" value="#getuser.address1#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="address2" value="#getuser.address2#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="city" value="#getuser.town#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="state" value="#getuser.county#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="postcode" value="#getuser.postcode#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="country" value="#getuser.countrycode#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="phonenumber" value="#getuser.workphone#">
   <cfhttpparam type="formfield" name="password2" value="temppass">
</cfhttp>

Edited January 23, 2009 by openmind

[CSNM-Carl]

I can't help with your specific problem, but are you trying to import users from Helm into WHMCS?

[openmind]

It's OK, it's started working all on it's own

 

Its for users yes but I'm writing the scripts to import users, plans and invoices from Helm.

[openmind]

The main problem I have at the moment is getting the password for the Helm account as you simply cannot do it through the H3 API.

 

You can reset it or use the API to authenticate yourself but you can't get the password nor can you decode it (that I know of;))

 

So the upshot is that the password field is blank for the client hosting account which means whmcs will not suspend the account when overdue. Saying that though it won't suspend domains, just the account, so it's fairly pointless anyway...