Through your code in languages such as PHP and Perl, you can access cPanel’s APIs to integrate billing solutions and applications, mass deploy and automate installations, and administer your client licenses.
Numerous developers have successfully integrated their applications with cPanel & WHM. From AutoInstallers to Security Tools, there is a way for your application to integrate seamlessly with the features of cPanel & WHM.
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Why Integrate Your Application With cPanel & WHM?
1.Integrate Billing and Support Software
Whether you’re developing or integrating a custom or commercial billing platform, by using the APIs, you have access to all of the account functions in WHM, including adding and removing accounts, setting up email piping for support, generating SSL signing requests, installing certificates, plus much more, all without logging in through WHM or cPanel.
Since the APIs on your cPanel & WHM server can also be accessed remotely, your software can be installed locally on the server or interact remotely to perform your necessary accounting and support functions, making the ability to serve your customers’ needs more centralized and streamlined.
2. Administrate Licenses With Manage2 Billing API
The Manage2 billing API, available exclusively to partners, is an easy way to maintain your cPanel licenses. Using the Manage2 API, you can perform maintenance tasks such as automatic provisioning and deprovisioning of licenses as servers are provisioned and deprovisioned, change license’s IP addresses, list license information, and more.
3.Daily Automation
One of the key features to cPanel & WHM is the use of hooks to automate daily tasks. Using the hooks system, you can automate the creation of various items within your server, such as MySQL
databases, user accounts, and more.
Example: cPanel::PublicAPI Perl module.
This is a set of perl modules that allows for easy access into cPanel’s APIs from a simple object interface. This module offers several great features:
* Autodetection of credentials (when available)
* Support for cPanel’s DNS Clustering API
* Support for: cPanel, WHM, webmail and noncPanel services.
* Minimal dependencies
* BSD Licensed
Installation
Installation of the module can be done via the cpan program.
For example:
| # cpanp install cPanel::PublicAPI |
Usage
This short example shows how to retrieve a list of users from a remote server using a simple 20 line Perl code. It assumes you have the remote server’s access hash stored locally.
| 01 #!/usr/bin/env perl 02 use warnings; 03 use strict; 04 use 5.010; 05 use cPanel::PublicAPI; 06 07 my $ah = `cat /path/to/server.accesshash`; 08 09 my $cp = cPanel::PublicAPI->new( 10 user => ‘root’, 11 host => ‘server’, 12 accesshash => $ah, 13 ); 14 15 my $users = $cp->whm_api(‘listaccts’); 16 17 for my $user ( @{ $users->{acct} } ) { 18 say $user->{user}; 19 } |
As you can see, API access can now be complete in as little as two lines of code: server authentication and API call.
Conclusion
If you maintain more than one cPanel server, the cPanel API is an invaluable resource for centralized management. The new cPanel Perl module greatly simplifies APIbased Perl scripts.
WHM Integration
To integrate with WHM, you will have to write a CGI plugin script that contains a few special comments that control how the plugin is displayed in the WHM interface. With this CGI application, you can redirect users to an external source or an internal source written in Perl/PHP.
The above is a very rough outline of the cPanel APIs , if you have any questions, we would be happy to talk to you! 🙂
About the Author :
Abhilash MB works as a Software Engineer in Bobcares. He joined Bobcares in June 2011. He loves reading books and listening to music in his free time.
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Appu Joseph Xavier works as a Software Engineer in Bobcares. He joined Bobcares in April 2012. He loves to watch movies in his free time.
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