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A tidy PHP wrapper for the cPanel WHM API 1.

Overview

This package provides a lightweight, dependency-minimal client for interacting with WHM API 1 JSON endpoints. It includes support for:

• WHM token authentication
• account management and account queries
• hosting plan creation, updates, and inspection
• login session and provider login URL helpers

Requirements

• PHP ^8.1
• ext-curl
• ext-json

Installation

composer require xililo/whm-api

Quick Start

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use Xililo\WhmApi\Config;
use Xililo\WhmApi\Whm;

$config = new Config(
    host: 'whm.example.com',
    username: 'root',
    token: 'your-api-token',
);

$whm = new Whm($config);

$accounts = $whm->accounts()->list();

foreach ($accounts->data('acct', []) as $account) {
    echo $account['user'] . PHP_EOL;
}

Usage

Authentication

WHM token calls use the header format documented by cPanel:

Authorization: whm username:token

Create a WHM user session

$response = $whm->auth()->createUserSession(
    user: 'example',
    service: 'cpaneld',
);

$url = $response->data('url');

Fetch a provider login URL

$response = $whm->auth()->getLoginUrl(
    provider: 'cPStore',
    urlAfterLogin: 'https://your-app.example.com/return',
);

$url = $response->data('url');

Accounts

List accounts

$accounts = $whm->accounts()->list([
    'search' => 'example',
    'searchtype' => 'domain',
    'searchmethod' => 'exact',
]);

Create an account

$response = $whm->accounts()->create(
    username: 'example',
    domain: 'example.com',
    password: 'strong-password',
    plan: 'starter',
);

Change package

$whm->accounts()->changePackage('example', 'business');

Suspend / unsuspend

$whm->accounts()->suspend('example', 'Non-payment');
$whm->accounts()->unsuspend('example');

Change password

$whm->accounts()->setPassword('example', 'new-password');

Hosting Plans

List plans

$plans = $whm->hostingPlans()->list();

Create a plan

$whm->hostingPlans()->create([
    'name' => 'starter',
    'quota' => 10240,
    'bwlimit' => 102400,
    'maxftp' => 10,
    'maxsql' => 10,
]);

Update a plan

$whm->hostingPlans()->update('starter', [
    'MAX_EMAIL_PER_HOUR' => 200,
]);

Inspect a plan

$plan = $whm->hostingPlans()->info('starter');

Response Model

Every resource returns an ApiResponse instance with helpers such as:

$response->successful();
$response->metadata();
$response->data();
$response->data('acct', []);
$response->reason();
$response->command();
$response->raw();
$response->toArray();

Notes

• The client calls https://{host}:2087/json-api/{function} by default.
• It automatically appends api.version=1.
• The client is dependency-light and uses cURL directly.
• Extra parameters may be passed through for WHM-specific query options.

Links

• Packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/xililo/whm-api
• cPanel WHM API docs: https://api.docs.cpanel.net/whm/introduction

License

MIT