Testing Elgg Web Services Locally

ws-test.php

<?php

define('WS_API_DOMAIN', 'http://xxxxxxxxxxxx.com/');
define('WS_TEST_API_KEY', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
define('WS_TEST_USERNAME', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
define('WS_TEST_PASSWORD', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');


function ws_test_build_url($method, $auth_token = null) {

	$query_data = array(
		'method' => $method,
		'api_key' => WS_TEST_API_KEY,
		'auth_token' => $auth_token,
	);

	$query = http_build_query(array_filter($query_data));
	return WS_API_DOMAIN . 'services/api/rest/json/?' . $query;
}

function ws_test_post_api_call($url, $fields) {

	$fields_string = http_build_query($fields);

	//open connection
	$ch = curl_init();

	//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($fields));
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields_string);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

	//execute post
	$result = curl_exec($ch);

	//close connection
	curl_close($ch);

	return json_decode($result, true);
}

function ws_test_get_api_call($url, $fields) {

	$url = $url . "&" . http_build_query($fields);

	//open connection
	$ch = curl_init();

	//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

	//execute post
	$result = curl_exec($ch);

	//close connection
	curl_close($ch);

	return json_decode($result, true);

}

function ws_test_get_token() {

	$url = ws_test_build_url('auth.gettoken');
	$fields = array(
		'username' => WS_TEST_USERNAME,
		'password' => WS_TEST_PASSWORD,
	);
	
	$result = ws_test_post_api_call($url, $fields);
	
	return (!empty($result['result'])) ? $result['result'] : false;
}

$auth_token = ws_test_get_token();

// Get user messages
$url = ws_test_build_url('messages.inbox', $auth_token);
$response = ws_test_get_api_call($url, array(
  'limit' => 20,
));


// Send a message on behalf of the user
$url = ws_test_build_url('messages.send', $auth_token);
$response = ws_test_post_api_call($url, array(
  'subject' => 'Hello world',
  'body' => 'Hello world',
  'send_to' => 'some_username',
));