通过PHP API访问MS Dynamics CRM

Question

I need to authenticate and perform CURD operations in MS Dynamics CRM using PHP API.

I have referred Reference1 Reference2 Reference3 Reference4

and using the below steps:

settings > 
Administration > 
system settings >
previews > 
accept terms & conditions > 
Web API Developer Preview  >
Enable Dynamics CRM Web API Preview to yes

which is given in Reference4 link.

When I access,

https://<your organization name>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/contacts

and

https://<your organization name>.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/accounts

I can get all my contacts and accounts.

But now I want to access it through php using api,

1. How to send the request for contacts and accounts?
2. How to create an application using AAD for trail version without providing credit card details?

I tried the below code:

$ZDURL= 'https://www.microsoft.com/en-sg/dynamics/';    
curlWrap("GET",$ZDURL); 
function curlWrap($action,$ZDURL)
{
    $ch = curl_init();

    /* $data = array('accountType' => 'MICROSOFT DYNAMICS',
            'id' => '83261c03-3a21-4c64-b62c-00d6c2127c64',
            'source'=>'PHI-cUrl-Example',
            'service'=>'lh2'); */

    //curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ZDURL);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");

    $output = curl_exec($ch);
    if($output===false)
    {
        echo "curl error >> ".curl_error($ch);
        exit;
    }
    else
    {
        echo "No Curl error occurs";
        echo "<pre>";print_r($output);
    }
    exit;
    curl_close($ch);
    $decoded = json_decode($output);

    return $decoded;
}

It shows as below:

Finally, got this Query Data using the Web API link, but no idea how to pass the request using php.

Need a help to retrieve CRM details by using api.

Answer 1

This is quite a comprehensive tutorial on connecting to Office365 rest api's from PHP. For the new CRM 2016 / CRM 2015 WebApi preview, the workings are the same, only the endpoint and the query is different.

https://dev.outlook.com/RestGettingStarted/Tutorial/php

As for issue number 2, if you go through the azure portal, you need a credit card. You might want to check out the new Office365 app registration portal http://dev.office.com/app-registration . I don't know for sure if it supports Dynamics CRM.