Arbor SDK

Arbor Education SDK library.

Introduction

PHP SDK is a library which simplifies the process of integrating the Arbor REST API with your own software.

Rather than handling XML and making HTTP requests in your code, you can simply include the SDK and use getters and setters on models in order to access data from Arbor. PHP SDK includes hundreds of models as well as a gateway pattern for querying the API via a query model.

SDK supports and requires any PSR 18 based HTTP client. Make sure to install one prior to using the SDK.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Composer

Installation

Simply download the project and run composer install from the root of the project to use as standalone for testing purposes.

Find the latest version on Packagist Arbor Education - PHP SDK and install it with composer directly in your project composer require arbor-education/arbor-sdk-php

Once setup use the examples/config-dist.php to create your own config. For this you will need your apps credentials added on Arbor Education - Developers Portal in order to be able to make requests to a sandbox environment.

Usage

The PsrRestGateway class is a gateway implementation for interacting with REST APIs using PSR-compliant HTTP clients. It provides methods for CRUD operations, bulk creation, querying, and handling API responses.

In the examples/example-bootstrap you will find the configuration needed to make requests, either using it directly from examples/config.php or using your own configuration. The entire examples directory is focused on helping you develop your app faster. Scripts written represent some of the most frequently used queries.

Example

When initializing the PsrRestGateway you will need to pass the Arbor\Api\Gateway\HttpClient\HttpClientInterface.

$httpClient = new \Arbor\Api\Gateway\HttpClient\HttpClient(
    new \Arbor\Api\Gateway\HttpClient\TypedRequestFactory(),
    null,
    null,
    $config['api']['baseUrl'],
    $config['api']['auth']['user'],
    $config['api']['auth']['password']
);

$api = new \Arbor\Api\Gateway\PsrRestGateway(
    $httpClient,
    new \Arbor\Model\Hydrator(),
    new \Arbor\Filter\CamelCaseToDash(),
    new \Arbor\Filter\PluralizeFilter(),
);

This will create a new instance of the PsrRestGateway which you can use to interact with the Arbor API. It will try to find any existing installed PSR-18 HTTP client, or you can pass your own implementation of Psr\Http\Client\ClientInterface to the HttpClient class.

This will set the default gateway for all models, allowing you to use the SDK without needing to pass the gateway instance every time you want to retrieve or manipulate a model.

\Arbor\Model\ModelBase::setDefaultGateway($api);

Use Arbor\Api\Gateway\PsrRestGateway to make GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests and use Arbor\Query\Query to add filters to your requests.

#### GET request:
```php
$student = \Arbor\Model\Student::retrieve(16);

or use examples/student-retrieve.php to see how to retrieve a record.

POST request:

use examples/staff-create.php to see how to create a new record.

PUT request:

use examples/staff-create.php to see how to update an existing record.

DELETE request:

$api->delete($staff->getPerson()); // assuming that you are deleting your newly created staff record

Query filters:

List of filters can be found in Arbor\Query\Query

$query = new \Arbor\Query\Query(Arbor\Resource\ResourceType::ARBOR_MODEL);
$query->addPropertyFilter(ArborModel::PROPERTY_NAME, OPERATOR, $value);
$query->addPropertyFilter(ArborModel::PROPERTY_NAME, SECOND_OPERATOR, $value);
... 

$records = \Arbor\Model\ArborModel::query($query); // will return an array of records

foreach ($records as $record) {
    // e.g. $record->getDisplayName();
}

Check examples directory to see usages of filters.