php exchange,PHP Exchange Web Services

PHP Exchange Web Services

The PHP Exchange Web Services library (php-ews) is intended to make

communication with Microsoft Exchange servers using Exchange Web Services

easier. It handles the NTLM authentication required to use the SOAP

services and provides an object-oriented interface to the complex types

required to form a request.

Dependencies

Composer

PHP 5.4 or greater

cURL with NTLM support (7.30.0+ recommended)

Exchange 2007 or later

Note: Not all operations or request elements are supported on all versions of

Exchange.

Installation

The prefered installation method is via Composer, which will automatically

handle autoloading of classes.

{

"require": {

"php-ews/php-ews": "~1.0"

}

}

Usage

The library can be used to make several different request types. In order to

make a request, you need to instantiate a new \jamesiarmes\PhpEws\Client

object:

use \jamesiarmes\PhpEws\Client;

$ews = new Client($server, $username, $password, $version);

The Client class takes four parameters for its constructor:

$server: The url to the exchange server you wish to connect to, without

the protocol. Example: mail.example.com. If you have trouble determining the

correct url, you could try using autodiscovery.

$username: The user to connect to the server with. This is usually the

local portion of the users email address. Example: "user" if the email address

is "[email protected]".

$password: The user's plain-text password.

$version (optional): The version of the Exchange sever to connect to. Valid

values can be found at \jamesiarmes\PhpEws\Client::VERSION_*. Defaults to

Exchange 2007.

Once you have your \jamesiarmes\PhpEws\Client object, you need to build your

request object. The type of object depends on the operation you are calling. If

you are using an IDE with code completion it should be able to help you

determine the correct classes to use using the provided docblocks.

The request objects are build similar to the XML body of the request. See the

resources section below for more information on building the requests.

Examples

There are a number of examples included in the examples directory. These

examples are meant to be run from the command line. In each, you will need to

set the connection information variables to match those of your Exchange server.

For some of them, you will also need to set ids or additional data that will be

used in the request.

Resources

Support

All questions should use the issue queue. This allows the community to

contribute to and benefit from questions or issues you may have. Any support

requests received via email will be directed here.