Assist newbie: UAPI installation with Joomla

[NickOg]

Hi
I am a very new user. We do use cPanel via our hosting service provider who have suggested that some work I need doing (creating email forwarding records) could best be handled vu UAPI and the add_forwarder functions. Fine - I can understand that.
The trouble is that my minimal code fails

function replaceMailForwarder($memberName, $personalEMail) {

  $forwarder = $memberName . '@conveners.pmhu3a.org.au';
  // Instantiate the CPANEL object.require_once "
  $cpanel = new CPANEL(); // Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  echo '<p style="color:red;">$cPanel  ' . __LINE__ . ' ' . __FUNCTION__ . '<br />';
  var_dump($cPanel);
  echo '</p>';

// Delete the forwarder for [email protected]
  $delete_forwarder = $cpanel->uapi(
      'Email', 'delete_forwarder',
      array(
        'address' => $forwarder,
        'forwarder' => $personalEMail,
      )
  );
  echo '<p style="color:red;">$delete_forwarder  ' . __LINE__ . ' ' . __FUNCTION__ . '<br />';
  var_dump($delete_forwarder);
  echo '</p>';
  die(' dead at ' . __LINE__ . ' in ' . __FUNCTION__);
}

with

0 - Class 'CPANEL' not found

I assume that I need to install the UAPI library within Joomla.
Can anyone help with some pointers as to where to find and install that library?

Regards

Nick

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! UAPI isn't something that gets installed, as it just exists on every cPanel system. I can't really advise how you'd integrate that with Joomla tools, but perhaps other users will be able to share their experience here.

Here's the documentation for creating a forwarder for this work:

Create email account forwarder

This function creates an email forwarder. **Important:** In cPanel & WHM version 76 and later, when you disable the MailReceive role, the system disables this function. For more information, read our How to Use Server Profiles documentation.

api.docs.cpanel.net

which can just be called directly on the server's command line.

I'm also moving this thread to the development section of our forum for more attention.

 

[NickOg]

Thanks for the reply. My problem is, I think, finding that UAPI! There seem to be several copies in Joomla components but none seem to work.
I look forward to other pointers from the forum
Nick

 

[cPRex]

I'm not sure what you mean by "finding" that uapi. The uapi system is built-in to ever cPanel & WHM system, and is available on the command line.

 

[NickOg]

That is what I thought - built in.
But the problem is that if I I enter

$cpanel = new CPANEL();

I receive the error message " 0 - Class 'CPANEL' not found "

This within a Joomla form.

And I therefore assumed that I need PHP require_once('the location of UAPI');
That looks to be the way other Joomla components reference their own copies of the cPanel.php.


Nick

 

[cPRex]

We have a nice article on using the API in scripts here:

Getting Started With The cPanel® API | cPanel Blog

Learn how to use the cPanel APIs to automate server and hosting administration tasks. We look at the built-in API utilities and remote API access with curl.

blog.cpanel.com

which includes some examples using Curl, as well as setting up authentication tokens. I believe that would be a good place to start learning about the API integration process.