zenkit-api-client

A PHP API client library for Zenkit. In order to use the API you'll need to get a API key from Zenkit, you can read about that in the Zenkit API documentation.

Please note that a API key is always connected to a user, so you might want to create a 'system' user with access to all your workspaces if you plan to develop an application that needs to process data you might not be allowed to see.

Testing the connection

In order to test your connection you can simply call information about your user:

$apiKey = 'your-api-key';

try {
    // Get the response from Guzzle.
    $response = (new API($apiKey))->request('auth/currentuser');

    // Get the body contents of the response.
    $rawResponseBody = $response->getBody()->getContents();

    // Output data as array.
    var_dump(json_decode($rawResponseBody, true));
} catch (idoit\zenkit\BadResponseException $e) {
    echo 'Exception! The status was ' . $e->getCode() . ', response: ' . $e->getResponse()->getBody()->getContents();
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception! Somewthing else went wrong: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

If you see an array with information about your user it was a success - you should see data like your user ID, short ID, UUID, initials, full name, your recent lists and a lot of other things.

Good to know

Naming

In the API context some components have other names, for example "Collections" are called "Lists" and "Fields" are called "Elements".

For this please also refer to the API documentation.

Mapped / raw responses

By default your responses will be 'mapped' to class instances. This means that all data ('Elements', 'Entries', 'Lists', ...) will be mapped to according *Item class instances (ElementItem, EntryItem, ListItem, ...).

Retrieving objects will help you work with Zenkit data regarding code completion and look inside the class what data (and data types!) you will receive from Zenkit.

If -however- you prefer handling raw data instead of mapped objects you have two options:

• You can directly use the $api->request() Method and work with the Guzzle response object
• You can switch the API to deliver raw data when using the service classes via setRawOutput method

Entry / element definition

In order to map "elements" to entries and read their content you will need to load elements first and pass them to the entry service, like this:

$listShortId = 'your-list-short-id';

$elements = $api->getElementService()
    ->getElementsInList($listShortId);

$entries = $api->getEntryService()
    ->setElementConfiguration($elements)
    ->getEntriesForListView($listShortId);

Without the passed configuration you will not get mapped entry data - you will only be able to process the data if you retrieve 'raw' results.