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shashikant

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unable to use civicrm api v3 in custom module
February 07, 2013, 05:58:04 am
Hi
I am trying to use civicrm api v3 in my custom module.
I am using civicrm 4.1.2 and drupal 6.25
I am following this doc
http://book.civicrm.org/developer/version/4.1/techniques/api

The  document says
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The recommended way to call the API in PHP is

require_once 'api/api.php';
$result = civicrm_api ($entity,$action,$params);

but when i add "require_once 'api/api.php';" it gives me
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PHP Fatal error:  require_once()  Failed opening required 'api/api.php'
I also tried by adding civicrm_initialize( ); in code, and when i do so

i get 
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PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function civicrm_initialize()
how can i use civicrm api v3 in module?

Thanks.

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Re: unable to use civicrm api v3 in custom module
February 07, 2013, 09:01:14 am
Sounds like CiviCRM is not yet initialized....
try this first?

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require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/your folder/sites/default/civicrm.settings.php');

require_once 'CRM/Core/Config.php';
$config =& CRM_Core_Config::singleton( );
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Re: unable to use civicrm api v3 in custom module
February 18, 2013, 05:37:50 am
Hi Erik,
Sorry for late reply.
I was doing wrong.
I had written the require_once 'api/api.php'; at the staring of the file and i was using civicrm api under function.
When I included the statement require_once 'api/api.php'; under the function where i am using civicrm api.
Then it got working.

Regards
Shashikant

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Re: unable to use civicrm api v3 in custom module
February 18, 2013, 08:02:00 am
That makes sense Shashikant, glad it works now :-)
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