dialogue1/amity-client

API client for amity

amity API Client

This package contains a Guzzle3-based API client for the amity API (v2). Use this if you want to connect your project with an amity installation and manage contacts, lists etc., _(*1)

Requirements

• PHP 5.3
• Composer to install the package and its dependencies

Installation

Using Composer, installing is as simple as doing, _(*2)

php composer.phar require dialogue1/amity-client:~1.0

In your PHP code, all you need is to include the autoloader generated by Composer:, _(*3)

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$apiClient = dialogue1\amity\API\Client::create(...);

Usage

In general, you need four pieces of information to use the amity API:, _(*4)

• the hostname of the installation (e.g. news.mydomain.com)
• whether or not to use SSL
• the amity client ID (e.g. gh26bb81)
• your amity API key (e.g. 34hguj13fggj1kjh24j5hg45j1h3g2g42)

You can either instantiate a fresh API client, which sets up all the dependencies as you need it, or use a plain Guzzle object and inject the amity API logic into it., _(*5)

Using the API client

// This will setup a new Guzzle client and prepare it for the amity API
$apiClient = dialogue1\amity\API\Client::create(
   'news.mydomain.com',
   true,
   'gh26bb81',
   '34hguj13fggj1kjh24j5hg45j1h3g2g42'
);

The API client offers wrappers around the provided API endpoints and takes care of handling errors for you. The code to handle the resources like contacts is available in services., _(*6)

$apiClient      = dialogue1\amity\API\Client::create(...);
$contactService = $apiClient->getContactService();

// both $contacts and $females will be a PHP array of contacts
$contacts = $contactService->getMany();
$females  = $contactService->getMany(null, null, null, null, 'f');

$newbie = $contactService->create(array(
    'email' => 'some@one.org'
));

If the existing wrappers are not sufficient (e.g. if you want to use resource embedding), you can use the requestData() helper method., _(*7)

$apiClient = dialogue1\amity\API\Client::create(...);
$contacts  = $apiClient->requestData('GET', '/contacts', array('embed' => 'lists'));

Using an existing Guzzle HTTP client

Alternatively, just use the RequestSigner plugin to add the signing functionality to any Guzzle instance - in this case, you need to take care of setting the hostname and SSL yourself:, _(*8)

$httpClient = getGuzzleClientFromMyExistingFramework();
$signer     = new dialogue1\amity\API\RequestSigner('<client ID>', '<api key>');

$httpClient->addSubscriber($signer);

With this setup, you can perform freeform requests as you see fit. Note that you have to take care of decoding JSON, handlings errors etc. yourself!, _(*9)

// [snip]

$contacts = $httpClient->get('/contacts');

License

This code is licensed under the MIT license., _(*10)