New endpoint for the API - No more SOAP!

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PHP Example

An example using cURL. This will simply show the first client from your account.

    $url = 'https://api.quickfile.co.uk/xml';
    $accountNo = '1234567890';
    $appID = 'abc-12345-def';
    $subNo = '12345678abcd';
    $apiKey = 'ABC-DEF-GHI';
    
    $data = '<Client_Search xmlns="http://www.QuickFile.co.uk" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.QuickFile.co.uk http://www.quickfile.co.uk/WebServices/API/Schemas/invoices/Client_Search.xsd">
      <Header>
        <MessageType>Request</MessageType>
        <TestMode>false</TestMode>
        <SubmissionNumber>'.$subNo.'</SubmissionNumber>
        <Authentication>
          <AccNumber>'.$accountNo.'</AccNumber>
          <MD5Value>'.md5($accountNo.$apiKey.$subNo).'</MD5Value>
    <ApplicationID>'.$appID.'</ApplicationID>
        </Authentication>
      </Header>
      <Body>
          <SearchParameters>
            <ReturnCount>1</ReturnCount>
            <Offset>0</Offset>
            <OrderResultsBy>CompanyName</OrderResultsBy>
            <OrderDirection>ASC</OrderDirection>
        </SearchParameters>
      </Body>
    </Client_Search>';
    
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
    curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data );
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    
    if($result === false) {
        echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
    } else {
        echo 'Curl successful!';
    }
    
    curl_close($ch);

Note: This is omitting the ‘https’ protocol, and using the ‘http’ protocol. While trying to use HTTPS, I ran into an error, and had to add this line to the cURL:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
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