Commerce Plugin - Integrating 3rd-Party Class Wrapper

[Tom Christian]

I'm trying to build a plugin so that whenever an invoice is generated or updated some data is sent to a 3rd-party service.

Extending the \IPS\nexus\Invoice class and save() method seems to be what I need.

My question - The 3rd-party service I'm integrating has a nice PHP wrapper to help structure their XML requests from a php array structure. The wrapper is split into three .php files. What is the best way of integrating this into a plugin? Where can I store these files and how do I load them? I'm aware of the autoloader but I'm not confident of how exactly it works.

Thanks

 

[Ryan H.]

There's a brief section on libraries at the bottom of the autoloader doc: http://community.invisionpower.com/4docs/advanced-usage/development/the-autoloader-r75/

[Tom Christian]

There's a brief section on libraries at the bottom of the autoloader doc: http://community.invisionpower.com/4docs/advanced-usage/development/the-autoloader-r75/

​Thanks.

And if the library doesn't follow the PSR-0 standard and we have to manually load it, does that mean literally pasting the source files into a hook?

[Farcaster II]

or use the good old "require_once" function

[Tom Christian]

or use the good old "require_once" function

​Of course, will try that.

[Tom Christian]

or use the good old "require_once" function

​And using the psr0 method: eg:

\IPS\IPS::$PSR0Namespaces['FreshBooksApi'] = \IPS\ROOT_PATH . '/plugins/commerceTests/Freshbooks/FreshBooksApi';

How would I then call that inside a hook? Everything I try returns a class not found error.

 

[Mark]

​And using the psr0 method: eg:

\IPS\IPS::$PSR0Namespaces['FreshBooksApi'] = \IPS\ROOT_PATH . '/plugins/commerceTests/Freshbooks/FreshBooksApi';

How would I then call that inside a hook? Everything I try returns a class not found error.

 

Are the classnames \FreshBooksApi\Class? If so, that should work fine.

Though you can't distribute files in the plugins directory (since they're created dynamically), you'd need to put them somewhere else. /system/3rd_party/ is probably a good place.

[Tom Christian]

Are the classnames \FreshBooksApi\Class? If so, that should work fine.

Though you can't distribute files in the plugins directory (since they're created dynamically), you'd need to put them somewhere else. /system/3rd_party/ is probably a good place.

​This is the library I'm using. Should that work alright?

[Mark]

\IPS\IPS::$PSR0Namespaces['Freshbooks'] = \IPS\ROOT_PATH . '/plugins/commerceTests/Freshbooks';

[Tom Christian]

\IPS\IPS::$PSR0Namespaces['Freshbooks'] = \IPS\ROOT_PATH . '/plugins/commerceTests/Freshbooks';

​Mark, when creating an invoice, is it possible for me to store some additional data? Before creating the invoice, my plugin sends the invoice data to Freshbooks which responds with an invoice_id. I need to store that ID so that any future invoice updates within Commerce can also be applied over to freshbooks.

[Mark]

Sure, you could add a column to the invoices table in the database, or create your own map table.