Authentication
Overview
Use the login method for the authentication process in the Avangate system.
Parameters
Parameters | Type/Description |
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merchantCode | Required (String) |
Your merchant identification code. | |
date | Required (String) |
GMT ISO Date format (e.g. 2010-01-01 12:13:14) | |
hash | Required (Object) |
Calculated HMAC_MD5 signature based on merchantCode and date, using your secret key. |
Response
Parameters |
Type/Description |
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sessionID |
String |
|
Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. Avangate throws an exception if the values are incorrect. |
Request
<?php function callRPC($Request, $host, $Debug = true) { $curl = curl_init($host); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 0); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Accept: application/json')); $RequestString = json_encode($Request); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $RequestString); if ($Debug) { $RequestString; } $ResponseString = curl_exec($curl); if ($Debug) { $ResponseString; } if (!empty($ResponseString)) { var_dump($ResponseString); $Response = json_decode($ResponseString); if (isset($Response->result)) { return $Response->result; } if (!is_null($Response->error)) { var_dump($Request->method, $Response->error); } } else { return null; } } $host = 'https://api.avangate.com/rpc/5.0/'; $merchantCode = "YOUR_MERCHANT_CODE"; // your account's merchant code available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.avangate.com/cpanel/account_settings.php $key = "YOUR_SECRET_KEY"; // your account's secret key available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.avangate.com/cpanel/account_settings.php $string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen(gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s')) . gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'); $hash = hash_hmac('md5', $string, $key); $i = 1; $jsonRpcRequest = new stdClass(); $jsonRpcRequest->jsonrpc = '2.0'; $jsonRpcRequest->method = 'login'; $jsonRpcRequest->params = array($merchantCode, gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'), $hash); $jsonRpcRequest->id = $i++; $sessionID = callRPC($jsonRpcRequest, $host);