WebFaction API using PHP

Our API tutorials and examples use Python, but the WebFaction API reference is language-neutral.

If you want to use phpxmlrpc, you simply create a XML-RPC client instance and send messages to it. Here's a simple example that logs in, lists your domains, and creates a new app, dumping the results to the screen along the way:

<?php
include "xmlrpc.inc";

// your control panel credentials
$username = "someuser";
$password = "xxxxxxxx";

// initialize the xmlrpc client
$client = new xmlrpc_client("https://api.webfaction.com/");
$client->return_type = 'phpvals';

// login and get session id
$resp = $client->send(new xmlrpcmsg("login", 
  array(new xmlrpcval($username, "string"), 
  new xmlrpcval($password, "string"))));
$loginresp = $resp->value();
$session_id = $loginresp[0];
$account = $loginresp[1];
var_dump($session_id);
var_dump($account);

// list some domains
$resp = $client->send(new xmlrpcmsg("list_domains", 
  array(new xmlrpcval($session_id, "string"))));
$domains = $resp->value();
var_dump($domains);

// create an app
$resp = $client->send(new xmlrpcmsg("create_app",
  // session
  array(new xmlrpcval($session_id, "string"),
  // app name
  new xmlrpcval("my_new_app", "string"),
  // app type
  new xmlrpcval("static", "string"),
  // autostart
  new xmlrpcval(FALSE, "boolean"),
  // extra info
  new xmlrpcval("", "string"))));
$app = $resp->value();
var_dump($app);

There may be less-verbose ways to do the same thing with phpxmlrpc, but I don't have much experience with it. This should be enough to illustrate the core concepts.

Hope that helps!

If you use Laravel, then I have a fresh package for reaching the API with php. https://github.com/subdesign/laravel-webfaction