Web Applications for Business

I would like to announce that the documentation for PAP4 API is now published in our knowledge base:

support.qualityunit.com/knowledgebase/post-affiliate-pro/programmers-documentation/api-programming.html

API possibilities

because of PAP4 client/server architecture, it natively supports API, and everything that you can control through merchant or affiliate control panel, you can access also from external application using the same API calls.

This includes retrieving, editing, adding affiliates, banners, campaigns, transactions, setting configuration, getting statistics data, etc. for both merchant and affiliate.

We have currently helper classes to support affiliates (list/add/edit) and transactions (list/add/edit).

We will be expanding the library as necessary, or per your requests.

API examples

You can find complete documentation and more examples in the link above.

Example 1 - getting list of affiliates that match string "john".

<code></code>

<?php
include 'PapApi.class.php';

// log in (as merchant)
$session = new Gpf_Api_Session("http://demo.qualityunit.com/pax4/scripts/server.php");
if(!$session->login("merchant@example.com", "demo")) {
       die("Cannot login. Message: ".$session->getMessage());
}

$request = new Pap_Api_AffiliatesGrid($session);
$request->addFilter("search", Gpf_Data_Filter::LIKE, "john");
$request->sendNow();
$grid = $request->getGrid();
$recordset = $grid->getRecordset();

foreach($recordset as $rec) {
    echo 'Affiliate name: '.$rec->get('firstname').''.$rec->get('lastname').'<br>';
}
?>

Example 2 - loading affiliate by his name

<code></code>

<?php
include 'PapApi.class.php';

// log in (as merchant)
$session = new Gpf_Api_Session("http://demo.qualityunit.com/pax4/scripts/server.php");
if(!$session->login("merchant@example.com", "demo")) {
     die("Cannot login. Message: ".$session->getMessage());
}

$affiliate = new Pap_Api_Affiliate($session);
$affiliate->setFirstname("John");
$affiliate->setLastname("Smith");
try {
    if(!$affiliate->load()) {
        echo 'Cannot load affiliate, error: '.$affiliate->getMessage();
    }
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Cannot load affiliate, error: '.$e->getMessage();
}
?>