mihui/php-vcap

Library of accessing IBM Cloud VCAP_SERVICES environment variables.

php-vcap

, _(*1)

Library of accessing IBM Cloud VCAP_SERVICES environment variables., _(*2)

Installation

Installing Composer will be easier to manage dependencies for your application., _(*3)

Run the Composer command to install the latest version of the Watson PHP SDK:, _(*4)

composer require mihui/php-vcap:dev-master

If the php-vcap is downloaded from GitHub already, run the update command:, _(*5)

composer update

Include autoload.php in your application:, _(*6)

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Namespaces

For common use, one of the namespaces of WatsonCredential or SimpleTokenProvider can be optional, depends on how to invoke the Watson services, and you can reference the classes like so:, _(*7)

use ENV\VCAP;

How to use

Refer to the env.json file in this repository, it is the example of the VCAP_SERVICES environment data from the IBM Cloud/Cloudfoundry, and it will be the env file for you to do the local development work on your machine, and you SHOULD NOT place the env.json file on the cloud. To do that, please add the env.json to your .gitignore. If you must have this file for other purpuses, please let me know I will add an option to change the file name., _(*8)

{
    "tone_analyzer": [
        {
            "credentials": {
                "url": "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/tone-analyzer/api",
                "username": "your_username_tone_analyzer",
                "password": "your_password_tone_analyzer"
            },
            "syslog_drain_url": null,
            "volume_mounts": [],
            "label": "tone_analyzer",
            "provider": null,
            "plan": "standard",
            "name": "Tone Analyzer",
            "tags": [
                "ibm_created",
                "ibm_dedicated_public",
                "lite",
                "watson"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "cloudantNoSQLDB": [
        {
            "credentials": {
                "username": "your_username",
                "password": "your_password",
                "host": "your_username-bluemix.cloudant.com",
                "port": 443,
                "url": "https://your_username-bluemix:your_password@cyour_username-bluemix.cloudant.com"
            },
            "syslog_drain_url": null,
            "volume_mounts": [],
            "label": "cloudantNoSQLDB",
            "provider": null,
            "plan": "Shared",
            "name": "Cloudant NoSQL DB",
            "tags": [
                "data_management",
                "ibm_created",
                "lite",
                "ibm_dedicated_public"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "conversation": [
        {
            "credentials": {
                "url": "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/conversation/api",
                "username": "your_username",
                "password": "your_password"
            },
            "syslog_drain_url": null,
            "volume_mounts": [],
            "label": "conversation",
            "provider": null,
            "plan": "free",
            "name": "Conversation",
            "tags": [
                "eu_access",
                "ibm_created",
                "ibm_dedicated_public",
                "lite",
                "watson"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

In order to get the credentials of tone_analyzer, use the sample code below, the parameter tone_analyzer must be the key in your JSON:, _(*9)

$credentails = VCAP::getInstance()->getServiceCredential('tone_analyzer');

echo $credentails['username'];
echo $credentails['password'];
echo $credentails['url'];

License

Copyright 2018 under the Apache 2.0 license., _(*10)