Assist newbie: UAPI installation with Joomla

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 "
  $cpanel = new CPANEL(); // Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  echo '$cPanel  ' . __LINE__ . ' ' . __FUNCTION__ . '
';
  var_dump($cPanel);
  echo '';

// Delete the forwarder for user@example.com
  $delete_forwarder = $cpanel->uapi(
      'Email', 'delete_forwarder',
      array(
        'address' => $forwarder,
        'forwarder' => $personalEMail,
      )
  );
  echo '$delete_forwarder  ' . __LINE__ . ' ' . __FUNCTION__ . '
';
  var_dump($delete_forwarder);
  echo '';
  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 Jurassic Moderator

April 14, 2021 13:46

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:

NickOg

April 14, 2021 20:57

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

April 15, 2021 13:32

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.

April 15, 2021 20:44

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

April 15, 2021 20:50

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

Assist newbie: UAPI installation with Joomla

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