webfaction-php

Simple PHP wrapper for the WebFaction XMLRPC API

Installation

Install using composer

composer require fortytwo-studio/webfaction-php

or add to your composer.json file's "require" section

"require": {
  "fortytwo-studio/webfaction-php": "^1.0",
}

(don't forget to run composer install or composer update)

Overview

This is a PHP wrapper for interacting with the WebFaction XMLRPC API. It's extremely thin, methods follow the naming conventions(camelCase rather than snake_case) and parameter ordering (ignoring session_id) of the XMLRPC API

Usage

include the client in your project class.

<?php
    use FortyTwoStudio\WebFactionPHP\WebFactionClient;
    use FortyTwoStudio\WebFactionPHP\WebFactionException;
    
    class MyAwesomeClass {
        ...
    }

To create a connection to the API new up an instance of the WebFactionClient with your API credentials:

    $wf = new WebFactionClient('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD', 'MACHINE', 'VERSION');

You can then perform interactions with the API using the methods.

Example - Provision a new mysql database and user

<?php

// include composer's autoloader (this'll vary depending on your application)
// presuming this file is in a "webroot" type folder...
include(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php');

use FortyTwoStudio\WebFactionPHP\WebFactionClient;
use FortyTwoStudio\WebFactionPHP\WebFactionException;

class MyAwesomeClass
{

    public function createDatabase($username = "new_db_user", $dbname = "my_new_db")
    {
        try
        {
            // create a connection to the API, use your own credentials here, obvs
            $wf = new WebFactionClient('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD', 'MACHINE', 'VERSION');

            // static method to generate random strings of given length
            $db_pass = WebFactionClient::generatePassword(21);

            // https://docs.webfaction.com/xmlrpc-api/apiref.html#method-create_db
            $database = $wf->createDb($dbname, 'mysql', $db_pass, $username);

            // https://docs.webfaction.com/xmlrpc-api/apiref.html#method-change_db_user_password
            //otherwise it doesn't seem to use it. Possibly because we're creating the user at the same time as the DB above
            $wf->changeDbUserPassword($username, $db_pass, 'mysql');

        } catch (WebFactionException $e)
        {
            // Something went wrong, find out what with $e->getMessage() but be warned, WebFaction exception messages are often
            // vague and unhelpful!
            return "rut roh, this went wrong: " . $e->getMessage();
        }

        // database created, keep a record of $db_pass if you want to use it somewhere!
        return "$db_pass";
    }

}

echo (new MyAwesomeClass())->createDatabase(); // if you didn't change the credentials in this example => rut roh, this went wrong: LoginError

Changelog

03/Apr/2018 - 1.1.4

• Fixed bug on replaceInFile method where multiple replacements were erroring

06/Mar/2018 - 1.1.3

• altered composer.json to require 4.* of phpxmlrpc
• update ReadMe

19/Dec/2017 - 1.1.2

• fixed "Unkown Error" exception on createWebsite on v1 and v2 of the API
• update ReadMe

29/Nov/2017 - 1.1.1

• small change to exception message when using an endpoint unavailable to the current version
• update ReadMe

29/Nov/2017 - 1.1.0

• update to handle Version 2 of the Webfaction API. This has support for SSL certificate management.
• fixed bug where some email methods weren't returning a response
• update ReadMe

01/Aug/2017 - 1.0.0

• update phpunit
• travis CI build integration
• update ReadMe

23/Aug/2016 - initial release.