20steps/collmex-bundle

Service-oriented Collmex API for Symfony2 applications

20steps/collmex-bundle (twentystepsCollmexBundle)

About

The 20steps Collmex Bundle provides a Service-oriented API for Symfony2 applications that need to interact with the Collmex accounting service., _(*1)

For further information about Collmex goto http://www.collmex.de., _(*2)

Features

• [x] Collmex accessible as a configurable Symfony2 service.
• [ ] Complete CRUD API for Collmex.
• [ ] Configurable caching of responses to prevent surpassing rate limit.
• [ ] Provide some derived KPIs.
• [ ] Full documentation and some examples.
• [ ] Prepare for open sourcing of 20steps control.

Installation

Require the bundle by adding the following entry to the respective section of your composer.json:, _(*3)

"20steps/collmex-bundle": "dev-master"

Get the bundle via packagist from GitHub by calling:, _(*4)

php composer.phar update 20steps/collmex-bundle

Register the bundle in your application by adding the following line to the registerBundles() method of your AppKernel.php:, _(*5)

new twentysteps\Bundle\CollmexBundle\twentystepsCollmexBundle()

Register services provided by the bundle by adding the following line to the imports section of your config.yml:, _(*6)

- { resource: "@twentystepsCollmexBundle/Resources/config/services.yml" }

Define the following properties in your parameters.yml:
* twentysteps_collmex.url - URL of the Collmex API - normally should point to "https://www.collmex.de". * twentysteps_collmex.account_id - ID of your account at Collmex. You will need a "Pro" account at collmex use this API. * twentysteps_collmex.login - The login to use for accessing Collmex. You should create a service account to not interfere with the sessions of your accountants. * twentysteps_collmex.password - Password of the account., _(*7)

Usage

• Get reference to the Collmex service either by adding @twentysteps_collmex.service as a dependency in your service or by explicitely getting the service from the container during runtime e.g. by calling $this->get('twentysteps_collmex.service') in the action of your controller.
• Call any public function provided by Services/CollmexService.php e.g. getCustomerCount() to get the number of customers listed in Collmex.

Version

This version is not yet complete or usable., _(*8)

Author

Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen (hhva@20steps.de)., _(*9)