Access the API for ChurchTools at https://api.churchtools.de/ in an object-oriented way that integrates nicely with modern PHP projects via Composer.
The API v2 which uses the new (2019) REST api can be found in the README_API2.md.
Free software (both as in free beer and free speech) by Vineyard Köln, licensed under Apache 2.0
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Currently this library has not been updated recently. If you wish to participate in development, you can send us pull requests to integrate in the main branch
https://github.com/5pm-HDH/churchtools-api
composer require vineyardkoeln/churchtools-api
If you haven't already configured autoloading in your project, start by including the Composer autoloader:
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';In order to use the ChurchTools API you need a valid login. This can either be a username / password pair or you can use a login ID and token. The latter is the recommended way because it keeps you API separate from any user account but username and password is fine for testing purposes.
To login with username and password, use this code snippet:
$api = \ChurchTools\Api\RestApi::createWithUsernamePassword('mychurch', 'username', 'password');where mychurch is your church handle or subdomain like in the URL to your web interface: https://_mychurch_.church.tools/.
If you are self-hosting ChurchTools, then use full server name of your installation without protocol (so for example: 'mychurch.example.org').
To login with a login ID and token, use this code snippet (recommended):
$api = \ChurchTools\Api\RestApi::createWithLoginIdToken('mychurch', 1337, 'a really long seemingly random string of 256 alphanumeric characters');You can retrieve the token by logging in once to the API with a username and password via the static method getLoginToken() (see below).
The login is valid for the duration of the programm call (script lifecycle). This way you can perform many requests with only one login via the static constructor method of your choice.
The following examples mostly assume you have a valid login and the API object is assigned to the variable $api.
In order to acquire a login ID and token you must call the getLoginToken method once:
$result = \ChurchTools\Api\RestApi::getLoginToken($churchHandle, $usernameOrEmail, $pass);
var_dump($result);This will return something like:
array(2) {
["status"]=>
string(7) "success"
["data"]=>
array(2) {
["token"]=>
string(256) "this is the very long string of seemingly random 256 alphanumberic characters that you need to store"
["id"]=>
string(4) "1337"
}
}To get all calendar entries from now until 10 days in the future:
$events = $api->getCalendarEvents([1,2,…]);
foreach ($events['data'] as $event) {
// …
}This method also has two optional parameters, $toDays and $fromDays, which allow you to select the desired timeframe.
To get calendar or service master data, use this method:
var_dump($api->getCalendarMasterData());or
var_dump($api->getServiceMasterData());TODO: In one of the upcoming alpha versions, methods will return model objects and not plain arrays.