I am trying to use this API: https://github.com/CommsCenter/name-com-php-sdk/blob/next-8.0/README.md

I says to run this command:

composer require commscenter/name-com-php-sdk

However, that command doesn’t work.

I was able to get it to work by creating a composer.json file in the root directory of my project that contained the following code:

{
  "minimum-stability": "dev",
  "require": {
    "commscenter/name-com-php-sdk": "dev-master"
  }
 }

But when it runs, it creates a vendor/ folder, with the following structure:

05/01/2024  10:32 PM               771 autoload.php
05/01/2024  10:32 PM    <DIR>          commscenter
05/01/2024  10:32 PM    <DIR>          composer
05/01/2024  10:32 PM    <DIR>          guzzlehttp
05/01/2024  10:32 PM    <DIR>          pckg-app
05/01/2024  10:32 PM    <DIR>          psr
05/01/2024  10:32 PM    <DIR>          ralouphie
05/01/2024  10:32 PM    <DIR>          symfony

So the code I want appears to be in /vendor/commscenter/name-com-php-sdk

I’m guessing the other stuff are dependencies used by that code. But how do I use this?

Like, i’m in index.php, and I want to instantiate an instance of the NameCom class. I have no idea what to do. I’m used to like using require to include the .php file that defines the class. But here the instructions:

Instalation

Install package with composer

$ composer require commscenter/name-com-php-sdk

Usage

Standalone

Instantiate new OpenCodeNameComApi class and pass endpoint, username and token.

Pckg framework

Add provider OpenCodeNameComProviderNameCom and auto resolve Api object.

$api = resolve(OpenCodeNameComProviderNameCom::class)

Endpoints

Domain

$api->domain()->checkAvailability('yourdomain.com');
$api->domain()->register('yourdomain.com');

I have no idea how the composer autoloaders work. I wanted to use this API to make using the name.com API easier, but it is just a REST api – I think tomorrow I will just sit down and try to use the API without this wrapper. I’m not sure how adding a 4 year old wrapper and a half dozen dependencies to a RESET api will make it easier to use.

Still, IF I got this to work, $api->domain()->checkAvailability(‘yourdomain.com’); is a super clean api call.

I wish name.com would offer both a REST API and a PHP SDK that offered class wrappers. Then you could just:

require(“name.com.php”);
$name_com_api = new name_com_api(file_get_contents(“api.key”), “username”, “sandbox”);
if($name_com_api ->domain()->checkAvailability(“test.com”) === false)…

Can someone explain how you are supposed to use these composer files?

I tried:

require(“vendor/autoload.php”);

$api = resolve(OpenCodeNameComProviderNameCom::class);

I just get “call to undefined function resolve”.