API PHP Example

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martijndekuijper

24 Sep, 2008 09:24 AM

Hi,

I was struggling with getting the Lighthouse API to work on PHP, but I finally managed. One thing I was missing was a simple working(!) example, so I'll just share my example (for adding a ticket) with you in order to get you started (maybe it's not that elegant, but it works ;) );

$l_sUrl = "http://{your_app_name}.lighthouseapp.com/projects/{project-id}/tickets.xml";

$l_oCurl = curl_init();
    
curl_setopt( $l_oCurl,CURLOPT_URL, $l_sUrl );
curl_setopt( $l_oCurl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password" );

$l_sTitle = "title_here";
$l_sDescription = "description here";

$l_sXml =   "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>".
                        "<ticket>".
                            "<title>".$l_sTitle."</title>".
                            "<body>".$l_sDescription."</body>".
                        "</ticket>";

$l_sHeader = "X-LighthouseToken: {token_here}\r\n";
$l_sHeader .= "Content-type: application/xml\r\n";
$l_sHeader .= "Content-length: ".strlen( $l_sXml ) . "\r\n\n"; // Important! Two linebreaks.
$l_sHeader .= $l_sXml;

curl_setopt( $l_oCurl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( $l_sHeader ) );

$l_oResult = curl_exec( $l_oCurl );
curl_close($l_oCurl);

Support Staff 1 Posted by Tiger Team on 24 Sep, 2008 04:32 PM

Will, this should go into the KB.
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2 Posted by Rick on 24 Sep, 2008 04:49 PM

$l_sUrl = "http://{your_app_name}.lighthouseapp.com/projects/{project-id}/tickets.xml";

$l_oCurl = curl_init();

curl_setopt( $l_oCurl,CURLOPT_URL, $l_sUrl ); curl_setopt( $l_oCurl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password" );

$l_sTitle = "title_here"; $l_sDescription = "description here";

$l_sXml = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>".
                    "<ticket>".
                        "<title>".$l_sTitle."</title>".
                        "<body>".$l_sDescription."</body>".
                    "</ticket>";

$l_sHeader = "X-LighthouseToken: {token_here}\r\n"; $l_sHeader .= "Content-type: application/xml\r\n"; $l_sHeader .= "Content-length: ".strlen( $l_sXml ) . "\r\n\n"; // Important! Two linebreaks. $l_sHeader .= $l_sXml;

curl_setopt( $l_oCurl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( $l_sHeader ) );

$l_oResult = curl_exec( $l_oCurl ); curl_close($l_oCurl);

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3 Posted by Rick on 24 Sep, 2008 04:50 PM

I'd suggest you html encode the title and description fields. If you use any raw html entities like <, it will break the XML.
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4 Posted by System on 03 Dec, 2008 09:22 PM

This discussion was assigned to Will, on ticket 22.
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5 Posted by bryan on 21 Apr, 2009 03:06 PM

thanks for getting me started. I found one thing missing for creating a ticket:

curl_setopt($l_oCurl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

(Need to send the XML request as POST to create a ticket)
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6 Posted by Will Duncan on 21 Apr, 2009 08:13 PM

<?php
// Account and user settings
$account = "yourapp";
$project_id = "12345";
$user = "[email blocked]";
$password = "yourpass123";
$token = "XXXXXXX";

// Assemble the account url
$url = "http://" . $account . ".lighthouseapp.com/projects/" . $project_id . "/tickets.xml";

// Setup the cURL object
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($l_oCurl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, ($user . ":" . $password) );

// Create the XML to post
$title = "Create a new ticket";
$description = "A new lighthouse ticket";

$xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" .
                    "<ticket>" .
                        "<title>" . $title . "</title>" .
                        "<body>" . $description . "</body>" .
                    "</ticket>";

// Setup the right headers for content-type etc.
$header = "X-LighthouseToken: " . $token . "\r\n";
$header .= "Content-type: application/xml\r\n";
$header .= "Content-length: " . strlen( $xml ) . "\r\n\n";  // Important! Two linebreaks.
$header .= $xml;

curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( $header ) );

// Execute the request and get the result
$result = curl_exec( $curl );
curl_close($curl);
?>

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brandi closed this discussion on 29 Jun, 2012 10:10 PM.
Tiger Team re-opened this discussion on 26 Apr, 2013 12:33 AM

Support Staff 7 Posted by Tiger Team on 26 Apr, 2013 12:33 AM

anyone following this, here is a better post for the business end of things that actually generates a valid http request o_O

<?php

$account  = "XXX";
$project  = "XXX";
$username = "XXX";
$password = "XXX";

$url = "http://$account.lighthouseapp.com/projects/$project/tickets.xml";
$title = "title";
$description = "description";
$xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" .
  "<ticket>" .
    "<title>$title</title>" .
    "<body>$description</body>" .
  "</ticket>";

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password" );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( "Content-Type: application/xml" ) );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1 );
curl_setopt( $curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml );
curl_exec( $curl );
curl_close( $curl );

?>

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