PHP client library to use the Exact Online API.
Note: For Guzzle 6 use v2, for Guzzle 3 use v1.
Installing this Exact client for PHP can be done through Composer.
composer require picqer/exact-php-client
- Set up app at Exact App Center to retrieve credentials
- Authorize the integration from your app
- Parse callback and finish connection set up
- Use the library to do stuff
Steps 1 - 3 are only required once on set up.
Set up an App at the Exact App Center to retrieve your Client ID and Client Secret.
You will also need to set the correct Callback URL for the oAuth dance to work.
The code below is an example authorize() function.
$connection = new \Picqer\Financials\Exact\Connection();
$connection->setRedirectUrl('CALLBACK_URL'); // Same as entered online in the App Center
$connection->setExactClientId('CLIENT_ID');
$connection->setExactClientSecret('CLIENT_SECRET');
$connection->redirectForAuthorization();This will redirect the user to Exact to login and authorize your integration with their account.
Exact will redirect back to the callback url you provided. The callback will receive a code param.
This is the authorization code for oAuth. Store this code.
Make a new connection to Exact so the library can exchange codes and fetch the accesstoken and refreshtoken.
The accesstoken is a temporary token which allows for communication between your app and Exact.
The refreshtoken is a token which is used to get a new accesstoken which also refreshes the refreshtoken.
The library will settle all of this for you. The code below could be an general connect() function, which returns
the api connection.
$connection = new \Picqer\Financials\Exact\Connection();
$connection->setRedirectUrl('CALLBACK_URL');
$connection->setExactClientId('CLIENT_ID');
$connection->setExactClientSecret('CLIENT_SECRET');
if (getValue('authorizationcode')) // Retrieves authorizationcode from database
$connection->setAuthorizationCode(getValue('authorizationcode'));
if (getValue('accesstoken')) // Retrieves accesstoken from database
$connection->setAccessToken(unserialize(getValue('accesstoken')));
if (getValue('refreshtoken')) // Retrieves refreshtoken from database
$connection->setRefreshToken(getValue('refreshtoken'));
// Make the client connect and exchange tokens
try {
$connection->connect();
} catch (\Exception $e)
{
throw new Exception('Could not connect to Exact: ' . $e->getMessage());
}
// Save the new tokens for next connections
setValue('accesstoken', serialize($connection->getAccessToken()));
setValue('refreshtoken', $connection->getRefreshToken());// Create a new account
$account = new Account($connection);
$account->AddressLine1 = $customer['address'];
$account->AddressLine2 = $customer['address2'];
$account->City = $customer['city'];
$account->Code = $customer['customerid'];
$account->Country = $customer['country'];
$account->IsSales = 'true';
$account->Name = $customer['name'];
$account->Postcode = $customer['zipcode'];
$account->Status = 'C';
$account->save();
// Add a product in Exact
$item = new Item($connection);
$item->Code = $productcode;
$item->CostPriceStandard = $costprice;
$item->Description = $name;
$item->IsSalesItem = true;
$item->SalesVatCode = 'VH';
$item->save();
// Retrieve an item
$item = new Item($connection);
$item->find(ID);
// List items
$item = new Item($connection);
$item->get();
// List items with filter (using a filter always returns a collection)
$item = new Item($connection);
$items = $item->filter("Code eq '$productcode'"); // Uses filters as described in Exact API docs (odata filters)
// Create new invoice with invoice lines
$items[] = [
'Item' => $itemId,
'Quantity' => $orderproduct['amount'],
'UnitPrice' => $orderproduct['price']
];
$salesInvoice = new SalesInvoice($this->connection());
$salesInvoice->InvoiceTo = $customer_code;
$salesInvoice->OrderedBy = $customer_code;
$salesInvoice->YourRef = $orderId;
$salesInvoice->SalesInvoiceLines = $items;Choose the right base URL according to Exact developers guide
<?php
$connection = new \Picqer\Financials\Exact\Connection();
$connection->setRedirectUrl('CALLBACK_URL');
$connection->setExactClientId('CLIENT_ID');
$connection->setExactClientSecret('CLIENT_SECRET');
$connection->setBaseUrl('https://start.exactonline.de');Check src/Picqer/Financials/Exact for all available entities.
See for example: example/example.php
- Switch administration (now uses default)
- Current entities do not contain all available properties. Feel free to submit a PR with added or extended entities if you require them.