clever-php

Installation

Download the latest version of the Clever PHP library via git:

git clone https://github.com/Clever/clever-php

or click here: https://github.com/Clever/clever-php/tarball/master.

Usage

To get started, add the following to your PHP script:

require_once("/path/to/clever-php/lib/Clever.php");

To authenticate using your API key:

Clever::setApiKey("YOUR_API_KEY");

If you're authenticating using an oauth token, call setToken instead:

Clever::setToken("TOKEN_STRING");

Once you've included Clever.php and set your API key, you can begin using the objects provided by the SDK:

• CleverDistrict
• CleverSchool
• CleverStudent
• CleverSection
• CleverTeacher
• CleverEvent

These objects correspond directly with the endpoints of the REST API, and expose the exact same functionality via the class methods all() and retrieve():

CleverDistrict::all(); // gets all districts you have access to via your API key.
CleverDistrict::retrieve($id); // gets district with ID $id

all() returns an array of Clever objects, while retrieve() returns a single instance of an object. Each Clever object has an additional set of instance methods corresponding to "second-level" information. For example, getting all of the schools, teachers, students, and sections for a district could be done like so:

$demo_district = CleverDistrict::retrieve("4fd43cc56d11340000000005");
$demo_schools = $demo_district->schools();
$demo_teachers = $demo_district->teachers();
$demo_students = $demo_district->students();
$demo_sections = $demo_district->sections();

The same patterns apply to other Clever objects (CleverSchool, CleverStudent, CleverSection, CleverTeacher, and CleverEvent). Here's an example that gets information about a teacher, all the sections they teach, the school they belong to, and the students they teach:

$teacher = CleverTeacher::retrieve("4fee004dca2e43cf270007d5");
$teacher_sections = $teacher->sections();
$teacher_school = $teacher->school();
$teacher_students = $teacher->students();

Query Parameters

Most API requests allow query parameters for purposes like paging and filtering. The same can be done in the PHP library by passing the all() method an associative array of parameters. For example, to see what data has changed since July 23rd, you could run:

$events = CleverEvent::all(array('created_since' => '2012-07-23'));

To page through a lot of data you could do something along the lines of:

for ($page = 1;
     count($students = CleverStudent::all(array('page' => $page)));
     $page++) {
  print_r($students);
}

Composer Support

Composer support has been added, Place the following lines in your composer.json file.

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/clever/clever-php"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
    	"clever/clever-php": "*"
}
}

Feedback

Questions, feature requests, or feedback of any kind is always welcome! We're available at clever-php@getclever.com.