PHP Extension

QuickBooks - Read an Account

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Demonstrates how to fetch the information for a specific Quickbooks account. The account information is fetched by Id. The account Ids can be obtained by querying the accounts and parsing the JSON that is returned. PHP Extension

<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// Get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token, which should contain JSON like this:
// {
//   "expires_in": 3600,
//   "x_refresh_token_expires_in": 8726400,
//   "refresh_token": "L011546037639r ... 3vR2DrbOmg0Sdagw",
//   "access_token": "eyJlbmMiOiJBMTI4Q0 ... oETJEMbeggg",
//   "token_type": "bearer"
// }

$jsonToken = new CkJsonObject();
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile('qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json');

$rest = new CkRest();

// Connect using TLS.
// A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Quickbooks REST API calls.
// The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
// then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
$bAutoReconnect = true;
$success = $rest->Connect('sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com',443,true,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success == false) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$sbAuth = new CkStringBuilder();
$sbAuth->Append('Bearer ');
$sbAuth->Append($jsonToken->stringOf('access_token'));
$rest->put_Authorization($sbAuth->getAsString());

$rest->AddHeader('Accept','application/json');
$rest->put_AllowHeaderFolding(false);

// The company ID is the 123146096291789
// The account ID is 29
$responseBody = $rest->fullRequestNoBody('GET','/v3/company/123146096291789/account/29?minorversion=45');
if ($rest->get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
    print 'Request Header: ' . "\n";
    print $rest->lastRequestHeader() . "\n";
    print '----' . "\n";
    print 'Response StatusCode = ' . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\n";
    print 'Response StatusLine: ' . $rest->responseStatusText() . "\n";
    print 'Response Header:' . "\n";
    print $rest->responseHeader() . "\n";
    print $responseBody . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Load the JSON response into a JSON object for parsing.
// A sample JSON response is shown below.
$json = new CkJsonObject();
$json->Load($responseBody);

// These will be used for parsing date/time strings..
$dtime = new CkDateTime();
$bLocalTime = true;

// Show the JSON..
$json->put_EmitCompact(false);
print $json->emit() . "\n";

// Get some information from the JSON..
print 'Name: ' . $json->stringOf('Account.Name') . "\n";
print 'Id: ' . $json->stringOf('Account.Id') . "\n";

// Load the CreateTime into a CkDateTime...
$dtime->SetFromTimestamp($json->stringOf('Account.MetaData.CreateTime'));
$dt = new CkDtObj();
$dtime->ToDtObj($bLocalTime,$dt);

print $dt->get_Month() . '/' . $dt->get_Day() . '/' . $dt->get_Year() . '  ' . $dt->get_Hour() . ':'
     . $dt->get_Minute() . "\n";

print 'Success.' . "\n";

// Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
// Generate Parsing Code from JSON

// ------------------------------------------------------
// The JSON response looks like this:

// {
//   "Account": {
//         "Name": "Accounts Payable (A/P)",
//         "SubAccount": false,
//         "FullyQualifiedName": "Accounts Payable (A/P)",
//         "Active": true,
//         "Classification": "Liability",
//         "AccountType": "Accounts Payable",
//         "AccountSubType": "AccountsPayable",
//         "CurrentBalance": -1602.67,
//         "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": -1602.67,
//         "CurrencyRef": {
//           "value": "USD",
//           "name": "United States Dollar"
//         },
//         "domain": "QBO",
//         "sparse": false,
//         "Id": "33",
//         "SyncToken": "0",
//         "MetaData": {
//           "CreateTime": "2016-09-10T10:12:02-07:00",
//           "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-09-17T13:10:36-07:00"
//         }
//       },
//   "time": "2016-10-24T15:35:25.067-07:00"
// 

?>