Hey all!
I need to get hooked up to the SMS API (via PHP), but step one is installing a SDK via composer.
I'm on shared hosting and the host says I can't do that.
Is there a way to access and use the API solely over cURL or a REST API of some kind? (Especially with an easy to use example in PHP where I could plug in my RingCentral keys, my number, and shoot out a text message to someone?)
Thanks!
Alex
I built a light PHP library to authenticate and access RingCentral platform and it is available in my GitHub repos listed below. The libraries also require using the composer to install the "vlucas/phpdotenv" dependency. But you can remove it and don't use the environment.
I appreciate the response! I'm very out of my element in terms of server stuff (I really just know straight, basic PHP); so I'm not even sure how to remove that dependency.
If I can just get a plain PHP example that connects via cURL or a REST API for one function (sending a text), then I should be able to adapt that to the others (basically I just need to be able to send texts and read old texts; maybe see old calls as well).
I'm even happy to pay someone to write that simple script as it'd take me forever to derive it from the more complicated "full-feature" packages.
Basically, you open the ringcentral.php file and change the code as follows:
Remove the dependency code
/*
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
$dotenv = Dotenv\Dotenv::createMutable(__DIR__, '.env');
$dotenv->load();
$env_file = "./environment/";
if ($_ENV['ENVIRONMENT'] == "sandbox"){
$env_file .= ".env-sandbox";
}else{
$env_file .= ".env-production";
}
$dotenv = Dotenv\Dotenv::createMutable(__DIR__, $env_file);
$dotenv->load();
*/
Replace these params with the actual values
//$url = $_ENV["RC_SERVER_URL"] . "/restapi/oauth/token";
$url = "https://platform.devtest.ringcentral.com/restapi/oauth/token"; // sandbox environment
$url = "https://platform.ringcentral.com/restapi/oauth/token"; // production environment
//$basic = $_ENV["RC_CLIENT_ID"] .":". $_ENV["RC_CLIENT_SECRET"];
$basic = "YourAppClientId:YouAppClientSecret";
$body = http_build_query(array (
'grant_type' => 'urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer',
'assertion' => "Your JWT token"
));
It's hard for me to help you further if you know just a little about PHP. You may need to know a lot more about PHP programming to build an application.
Yeah, I was hoping to side step building an entire application if I really just needed one or two simple features - like with Stripe, I was able to build it into a simple PHP function to charge a card via cURL and then adapt as needed from there and it went well (and then I added other features as needed from there).
I might just hop on Freelancer and see if someone wants $10 or $20 to just build a single PHP function where I just put in my authorization details, a phone number to text to, and a message, and it works. I can adapt it from there, but it just takes a lot more time to strip a more fully featured solution down to the simple bones of what I need.
Assuming that's even possible?
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