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Bulk faxing app PHP

  • 6 November 2019
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Hi,
Not sure if I'm going about this the wrong way, but I'm trying to create a pretty basic bulk faxing app using PHP - open a CSV file with a list of phone numbers and send to all etc. The basic functionality of sending a fax works fine in my sandbox, but I'm struggling to find more info on what else I need to do, specifically related to rate limits and such. I should also ask if there is already an implementation of this somewhere I can just use - didn't find anything particularly useful on the RingCentral Apps or on Github.

I know there are rate limits of 10 on my 'heavy' call. Is this all faxes, or is this because I have a certain size of attachment? Either way, when I send, do I have to keep track of the limit, and once it hits 10 in 1 60 second period tell it to sleep for 59 seconds, or does the SDK do all of that and it will just continue sending when it's able to? If I do need to keep track of it, how do I get the info out of the response? In debugging, I have been able to see the info like X-Rate-Limit-Group etc, but can't figure out how to do it with code. I've tried things like $resp->_response (but _response is not available to be queried like this), $resp->getHeaders(), $resp -> getHeader('X-Rate-Limit-Limit').
$resp->json() only gives me the _jsonAsObject which does not include the _response object, so doesn't have the headers I need.

Given


$resp = $platform->sendRequest($request);

json_encode($resp);


gives me a blank array.


What am I doing wrong? Is there anything else I need to know?


Thanks in advance.

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Best answer by Tobias62323551004 8 November 2019, 16:09

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Here you go. I give you two options, choose one of those.

<?php
require('vendor/autoload.php');

$RINGCENTRAL_CLIENTID = '';
$RINGCENTRAL_CLIENTSECRET = '';
$RINGCENTRAL_SERVER = 'https://platform.devtest.ringcentral.com';

$RINGCENTRAL_USERNAME = '';
$RINGCENTRAL_PASSWORD = '';
$RINGCENTRAL_EXTENSION = '';

$rcsdk = new RingCentralSDKSDK($RINGCENTRAL_CLIENTID, $RINGCENTRAL_CLIENTSECRET, $RINGCENTRAL_SERVER);

$platform = $rcsdk->platform();
$resp = $platform->login($RINGCENTRAL_USERNAME, $RINGCENTRAL_EXTENSION, $RINGCENTRAL_PASSWORD);

$listOfPhoneNumber = [
  "16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567",
  "16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567",
  "16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567",
  "16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567",
  "16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567",
  "16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567",
  "16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567","16501234567"
];

$index = 0;
//sendFaxRegularInterval();
function sendFaxRegularInterval() {
  global $rcsdk;
  global $index;
  global $listOfPhoneNumber;
  if ($index < count($listOfPhoneNumber)){
    $request = $rcsdk->createMultipartBuilder()
                     ->setBody(array(
                         'to' => array(array('phoneNumber' => $listOfPhoneNumber[$index])),
                         'faxResolution' => 'High',
                     ))
                     ->add(fopen('test.jpg', 'r'))
                     ->request('/account/~/extension/~/fax');

    $resp = $rcsdk->platform()->sendRequest($request);
    print_r ("FAX sent. Message status: " . $resp->json()->messageStatus."
");
    $jsonObj = $resp->response();
    $limit = strval($jsonObj->getHeaders()['X-Rate-Limit-Limit'][0]);
    $limitRemaining = strval($jsonObj->getHeaders()['X-Rate-Limit-Remaining'][0]);
    $limitWindow = strval($jsonObj->getHeaders()['X-Rate-Limit-Window'][0]);

    $delayInterval = 0;
    if ($limitRemaining == 0){
        print_r("no remaining. panelty
");
        $delayInterval = ($limitWindow / $limit);
    }else{
        $delayInterval = ($limitWindow / $limitRemaining);
    }
    sleep($delayInterval);
    $index++;
    sendFaxRegularInterval();
  }else{
    print_("Done
");
  }
}

$startTime = time();
sendFaxAsFastAsPossible();
function sendFaxAsFastAsPossible() {
  global $rcsdk;
  global $startTime;
  global $index;
  global $listOfPhoneNumber;

  if ($index < count($listOfPhoneNumber)){
      $request = $rcsdk->createMultipartBuilder()
                       ->setBody(array(
                           'to' => array(array('phoneNumber' => $listOfPhoneNumber[$index])),
                           'faxResolution' => 'High',
                       ))
                       ->add(fopen('test.jpg', 'r'))
                       ->request('/account/~/extension/~/fax');

      $resp = $rcsdk->platform()->sendRequest($request);
      print_r ("FAX sent. Message status: " . $resp->json()->messageStatus."
");
      $jsonObj = $resp->response();
      $limit = strval($jsonObj->getHeaders()['X-Rate-Limit-Limit'][0]);
      $limitRemaining = strval($jsonObj->getHeaders()['X-Rate-Limit-Remaining'][0]);
      $limitWindow = strval($jsonObj->getHeaders()['X-Rate-Limit-Window'][0]);

      $delayInterval = 0;
      if ($limitRemaining == 0){
          print_r("no remaining. wait for next window
");
          $now = time();
          $diff = $now - $startTime;
          $delayInterval = ($limitWindow - $diff);
          $startTime = $now + $delayInterval;
      }
      sleep($delayInterval);
      $index++;
      sendFaxAsFastAsPossible();
  }else{
      print_r("Done
");
  }
}

Hope this helps!

That's perfect, thanks very much.

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