Comments on: Basecamp: PHP Class In Progress – Feedback Needed

By: Josh Pratt

Josh Pratt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:35:20 +0000

Guillermo,

The class uses cURL, so you will need it if you want to use it. I hope you can find it useful!

By: Guillermo Lopez

Guillermo Lopez — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:27:04 +0000

Hi Josh,
It’s great to see that you have classes for PHP to use Basecamp. My company uses Basecamp at a regular basis and there is some functionality that we want to take advantage of that Basecamp doesn’t provide.

So we are going to be using the Basecamp Api with PHP. And I have a few questions for you.

Our server currently has XAMPP installed. Using your class will make most of my work easier. Do I need to install PHP/cURL? Or a better question will be: Do you suggest I install cURL?

I saw some of your scripts in the Basecamp Forums and they use curl, but it might seem that your classes does not.

BTW.: I’m looking forward on the Time tracking class on your to-dos .

Thanks

By: Ross Haggart

Ross Haggart — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Hi i’ve used your wrapper class successfully on a local xampp server, but when i move over to the live server i’m getting a String could not be parsed as XML error. I think it’s the configuration apache/php but no idea what. SimpleXMLElement is enabled and i noticed some comments about the encoding, but no joy. Any help would be appreciated.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:38:46 +0000

Hi Josh,

Here is one more for you. Is there a way to get all projects associated with a person, or all people associated with a project?

Thanks!!!!
-E

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:37:27 +0000

I don’t know why but for me doesn’t work. i’ve try to post a message and a to do but nothing happens.
/// sending email to basecamp
$bc = new Basecamp(‘https://blabla.projectpath.com’,'username’,'pass’);
$bc->set_project_id(487676); // required
$bc->set_category_id(74543345); // required
$bc->set_is_private(0); // optional – (0) or don’t set it for non-private
$bc->post_message(‘New design’,'some text’);
// Resource ID (integer) for any message, to-do list, or milestone
$bc->set_resource_id(435345534);
// Resource Type [posts|milestones|todo_items]
$bc->set_resource(‘todo_items’);
$bc->post_comment(‘TITLE’,'MESSAGE’);
i’ve downloaded the * @version 1.11 where is the mistake?

By: Michael Nass

Michael Nass — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:48:08 +0000

Josh,

Great work on this. Thanks a ton!

Curious if you’ve heard anything back from 37Signals on the XML response from Messages, etc… Seems odd that they don’t return anything.

I’m working on something with your class so was really hoping to have 1.2 but it looks like I’ll have to go use the curl request reply method you mentioned as this work is due end of week.

Just wanted to encourage you. I really appreciate what you’re doing. Ever need help, let me know

By: Josh Pratt

Josh Pratt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:37:46 +0000

George,

Thanks for the comment. That stuff is going to be complete fixed and not an issue with the release of 1.2 – which I hope will be released sometime next week. Thanks!

By: George

George — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:33:53 +0000

I read in your code:
[code] * Note: I have found that only Milestones, File Attachments, and Time-Tracking posts
* return an XML response. Messages, Comments, and To-Dos do not send back an XML response.
* This makes it difficult because for those three resources that do NOT send back an XML
* response, I have to pull the new data (new resource id) from the header instead, creating
* two distinct methods. I have contacted 37 signals about this, and I'm still waiting for
* a response. So, at this time, when posting Messages, Comments, or To-Dos, there is no
* ID returned.
[/code]
Dunno if this helps you, but an idea:
I got the headers from the curl request reply using Sean Huber’s Curl wrapper: http://github.com/shuber/curl/
and then preg_replace’ing the last chars of:
$response->headers['Location']

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:46:52 +0000

We are anxiously waiting.

By: Josh Pratt

Josh Pratt — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:01:04 +0000

Michael,

Ahh – good catch on the category id’s. I will try and put together a function to gather that – as well as a generic function to manually set it as well. Thanks!

Jeff,

They are coming! Hopefully sometime by Thursday night (Dec. 4th.)