iBanFirst PHP client library

A PHP client for interacting with the iBanFirst API.

• Guide
• API Reference

Installation

The recommended way to install ibanfirst-sdk is using Composer.

# Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Next, run the Composer command to install the latest stable version of ibanfirst-sdk.

php composer.phar require mradhi/ibanfirst-sdk

After installing, you need to require Composer's autoloader:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Initialising A Client

Create a IBanFirst\IBanFirst instance, providing your credentials, and the environment you want to use. We strongly advise to store your credentials as an environment variable, rather than directly in your code. you can easily load the environment variables from a .env file by using something like phpdotenv, though keep it out of version control!

$username = getenv('IBANFIRST_USERNAME');
$password = getenv('IBANFIRST_PASSWORD');

$client = new IBanFirst\IBanFirst(array(
    'username'    => $username,
    'password'    => $password,
    'environment' => IBanFirst\IBanFirstEnvironment::SANDBOX
));

The environment can either be IBanFirst\IBanFirstEnvironment::SANDBOX or IBanFirst\IBanFirstEnvironment::LIVE, depending on whether you want to use the sandbox or live API.

GET requests

You can make a request to get a list of resources using the getList method.

/**
 * @var IBanFirst\IBanFirst $client
 */
$client->wallets()->getList();

Note: This README will use wallets throughout but each of the resources in the API is available in this library.

If you need to pass any options, the last argument in getList() method is an array of options, check HttpClient - Query String Parameters for more information, so in our case if we want to add some parameters to the URL, we can do so as below:

/**
 * @var IBanFirst\IBanFirst $client
 */
$wallets = $client->wallets()->getList(['query' => ['page' => 3]]);

A call to getList() returns an instance of IBanFirst\Response\ListResponse. You can use its getRecords() attribute to iterate through the results.

/**
 * @var IBanFirst\Response\ListResponse $wallets
 */
echo count($wallets->getRecords());

/** @var IBanFirst\Resources\Wallet $wallet */
foreach ($wallets->getRecords() as $wallet) {
  echo $wallet->bookingAmount->value;
}

In the case where a URL parameter is required, the method signature will contain the required arguments:

/**
 * @var IBanFirst\IBanFirst $client
 */
$wallet = $client->wallets()->getDetails('some_id');
echo $wallet->accountNumber;

As with getList(), the last argument can be options array, with any URL parameters given:

/**
 * @var IBanFirst\IBanFirst $client
 */
$client->wallets()->getDetails('some_id', ['query' => ['some_flag' => true]]);

Handling Failures

When there is an error, the library will return a corresponding subclass of IBanFirst\Exception\SDKException, one of:

• IBanFirst\Exception\AuthenticatorException - The authenticator config is invalid
• IBanFirst\Exception\ResourceException - The call to a given resource is invalid
• IBanFirst\Exception\ResponseException - The response returned by the API is an error

Tests

1. Create a sandbox account on iBanFirst, check iBanFirst API - Get started
2. Create tests/config.php from tests/config.php.dist and edit it to add your credentials.
3. The tests can be executed by running this command from the root directory:

$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit

By default, the tests will send live HTTP requests to the iBanFirst API. If you are without an internet connection you can skip these tests by excluding the client group.

$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit --exclude-group client

Perspective

• Behind the scene, this library uses the HttpClient component to communicate with the iBanFirst APIs, but you can use your own HttpClient which should implement Symfony\Contracts\HttpClient\HttpClientInterface, and then you can use it by configuring the IBanFirst\IBanFirst object as below:

/**
* @var Symfony\Contracts\HttpClient\HttpClientInterface $customClient
*/
$client = new IBanFirst\IBanFirst(array(
   // ... the required options here
   'http_client' => $customClient
));

Check HttpClient - HttpPlug documentation for more information in this subject.

• Currently, the library supports only one authentication method IBanFirst\Authenticator\UsernameTokenAuthenticator, but it's built in a way that we can easily add more authenticators by just implementing the interface IBanFirst\Authenticator\AuthenticatorInterface.

• Currently, the library supports only two APIs services:

  • IBanFirst\Service\WalletsService - Service for interacting with /wallets/ endpoints.
  • IBanFirst\Service\FinancialMovementsService - Service for interacting with /financialMovements/ endpoints.

We can easily add more services to this wrapper, each service should extend IBanFirst\Service\AbstractService class, and the return value for each public method call should be an instance of IBanFirst\Response\ListResponse or IBanFirst\Resources\AbstractResource, this is so useful to ensure a great typehint.

Supporting PHP >= 7.4

This client library only supports the latest version PHP >= 7.4 , Check Supported Versions for more information.