Author Topic: how do we call the civicrm api from within a drupal module (php) (Read 3784 times)

antidumbdown · October 17, 2011, 02:32:04 am

Please excuse me if this has been discussed, seems like it must be used often enough, but i can't find or figure out the right way forward.

I use a custom drupal module to collect some form field data from users and put that data into a DB, lat in the script I want to add that data to the civicrm db. most of the documentation i come across says simply to require the api.php file and call cicirm_api function... But this alone does not work from within a standard drupal module. What is the best way to get this data into a new civicrm contact?

xavier · October 17, 2011, 02:52:17 am

What do you mean by it doesn't work? Can you share the code or detail?

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antidumbdown · October 17, 2011, 11:07:49 am

Hi xavier,

Following the recommendation from floss developer guide on api usage, i require_once the api file and then tried to use the civicrm_api function call from within a drupal module within a hook_node_view hook, when i do this i get the following error;

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Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'api/api.php'

This suggests that the api is not available to drupal, either i set something up wrong or i am doing something wrong because it would seem that the API should be available by the time I am in a hook_node_view.

Next, I edited the path in the require_once to be more specific like so

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require_once('sites/all/modules/civicrm/api/api.php');

Now my error has changed, this time its:

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Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'api/v3/utils.php'

Am i missing something during setup?

antidumbdown · October 17, 2011, 11:12:12 am

Ok, some progress, but it does not feel right.
I read the posts on this thread: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,20989.msg87937.html#msg87937

and then pasted in this code into my modules hook_node_view

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 require_once 'sites/default/civicrm.settings.php';

    require_once 'CRM/Core/Config.php';
    $config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton( );
    
    $results = civicrm_api("Contact","create", $params);
    print_r($results);

It worked. But again it does not feel right, can someone point me in the right direction. what is the approach I should be taking to access the api from within a drupal module.

Donald Lobo · October 17, 2011, 01:39:04 pm

can u try this:

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  civicrm_initialize( );

  $results = civicrm_api("Contact","create", $params);
  print_r($results);

lobo

antidumbdown · October 17, 2011, 02:14:40 pm

Hi lobo, that worked.

So is this the recommended way to interact with the API from within a drupal module?

Thank You
chris

Donald Lobo · October 17, 2011, 02:34:00 pm

IMO, yes

lobo

Coleman Watts · November 11, 2011, 10:37:01 am

Interesting, so the require_once is no longer needed? As of what version is this file automatically loaded?

Eileen · November 11, 2011, 08:27:51 pm

As of Xavier rant 43.1

(It was quite a while ago)

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