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Freshbooks-API-Parser.md

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+This is a library that parses XML from the Freshbooks API.  The only thing you need to update would be:
+
+XML_POST_USER = Your Freshbooks Token
+XML_POST_URL = Your Freshbooks API URL
+
+[code]
+<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
+
+class Freshbooks {
+
+    function loop($request)
+    {
+        // Define request, username, password, and api url
+        define('XML_PAYLOAD',$request);
+        define('XML_POST_USER','your_TOKEN');
+        define('XML_POST_PASS', 'X');
+        define('XML_POST_URL', 'https://example.freshbooks.com/api/2.1/xml-in');
+        
+        // cURL to make it rain
+        $ch = curl_init(); 
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, XML_POST_URL);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, XML_POST_USER.":".XML_POST_PASS);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4); 
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, XML_PAYLOAD); 
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Connection: close'));
+        
+        // Run timer to see how long the total result takes.
+        $start = array_sum(explode(' ', microtime()));
+        $result = curl_exec($ch); 
+        $stop = array_sum(explode(' ', microtime()));
+        $totalTime = $stop - $start;
+        
+        // Check for errors
+        if ( curl_errno($ch) ) {
+            $result = 'cURL ERROR -> ' . curl_errno($ch) . ': ' . curl_error($ch);
+        } else {
+            $returnCode = (int)curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+            switch($returnCode){
+                case 200:
+                    break;
+                default:
+                    $result = 'HTTP ERROR -> ' . $returnCode;
+                    break;
+            }
+        }
+        
+        // Close the cURL stuff that just rained
+        curl_close($ch);
+        
+        // Return the result
+        return $result;
+        
+        // Probably will need to delete this, because I'm not sure what it does...Google me baby.
+        exit(0);
+    }
+}
+
+?>
+[/code]
+
+Then create a controller that send a request XML to the function:
+
+[code]
+<?
+
+class Update_billing extends Controller {
+
+    function Update_billing()
+    {
+        parent::Controller();
+    }
+    
+    function index()
+    {
+        $this->load->library('freshbooks');
+        
+        $request = '&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;<request method="recurring.get"><recurring_id>1</recurring_id></request>';
+        
+        $result = $this->freshbooks->loop($request);
+        
+        echo $result;
+    }
+}
+[/code]