chamilo-lms2/main/webservices

= Chamilo Webservices =

Chamilo webservices are not the greatest API you can find around, but they kind of work, as long as you don't get fooled by the many files in this folder.

The main maintained script is registration.soap.php The way to call it is relatively well described in the example: client_soap.php

Basically, we have a weird way of authenticating you (until we release APIv2 with OAuth or similar authentication methods). We ask you to include the public IP of the server calling the webservice inside the key, and to combine that key with the $_configuration['security_key'] value in app/config/configuration.php.

You can get your own public IP by doing a wget on the testip.php file in this folder (you can do that automatically through a file_get_contents() or fopen() as well, if you need to). There is a way to alter this mechanism by adding a specific IP to the file webservice-auth-ip.conf.php.

Once you're all setup with the key to connect to Chamilo, just call your webservices like you would normally do through SOAP (that's where the client_soap.php file can really get you through).

Most of the other files are (failed) attempts at redesigning the API. We hope we'll get the chance to provide a better API soon.