Interact with Personio from your PHP application.

• Requirements
• Installation
• Setup
  • Creating an API client based on Guzzle
  • Creating an API client based on a PSR-18 HTTP Client
  • Creating your own API client
  • Caching HTTP requests
• Usage
  • Simple API
  • Catching errors
• Roadmap

• A Client ID and Client Secret from (You can generate them at https://xxx.personio.de/configuration/api/credentials)

composer require gamez/personio

composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

<?php
// a file in the same directory in which you perfomed the composer command(s)
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Gamez\Personio\Api\GuzzleApiClient;

$clientId = 'xxx';
$clientSecret = 'xxx';

$apiClient = GuzzleApiClient::with($clientId, $clientSecret);

The following example uses kriswallsmith/buzz as the client and nyholm/psr7 as the Request Factory, but you can use any library that implements PSR-17 and PSR-18.

composer require kriswallsmith/buzz:^1.0 nyholm/psr7:^1.0

<?php
// a file in the same directory in which you perfomed the composer command(s)
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Buzz\Client\FileGetContents;
use Gamez\Personio\Api\HttpApiClient;
use Nyholm\Psr7\Factory\Psr17Factory;

$clientId = 'xxx';
$clientSecret = 'xxx';

$psr17Factory = new Psr17Factory();
$httpClient = new FileGetContents($psr17Factory);
$apiClient = HttpApiClient::with($clientId, $clientSecret, $httpClient, $psr17Factory);

If you want to create your own API client, implement the \Gamez\Personio\Api\ApiClient interface and use your implementation.

To cache HTTP requests to the API, you can add a caching middleware/plugin to the HTTP client before injecting it into the API client instance. See the documentation of the respective component for instructions on how to do that.

• Guzzle: kevinrob/guzzle-cache-middleware
• HTTPlug: Cache Plugin

Gamez\Personio\SimpleApi is the easiest and fastest way to access the data in your Personio account. Its methods are named after the available REST API endpoints and return arrays of data. You can inspect the available methods by looking at the source code of the Gamez\Personio\SimpleApi class or by using the autocompletion features of your IDE.

The Simple API doesn't get in your way when accessing the Personio API, but it doesn't provide additional features either. It will, for example, not tell you if you used a wrong query parameter or invalid field value, so you will have to rely on the returned API responses.

For information on which query parameters and field values are allowed, see Personio Developer Hub.

All exceptions thrown by this library implement the \Gamez\Personio\Exception\PersonioException interface. Exceptions thrown while using an API Client will throw a \Gamez\Personio\Exception\ApiClientError.

<?php 

use Gamez\Personio\Exception\ApiClientError;
use Gamez\Personio\Exception\PersonioException;

try {
    /** @var \Gamez\Personio\Api\ApiClient $apiClient */
    $result = $apiClient->get('nice-try');
} catch (ApiClientError $e) {
    $message = "Something went wrong while accessing {$e->getRequest()->getUri()}";

    if ($response = $e->getResponse()) {
        $message .= " ({$response->getStatusCode()})";
    }

    $message .= ' : '.$e->getMessage();

    exit($message);
} catch (PersonioException $e) {
    exit('Something not API related went really wrong: '.$e->getMessage());
}

• Tests
• Interfaces and value objects
• CLI tool
• Better documentation