AddAnnouncement

Adds an announcement.

Request Parameters

Parameter Type Description Required
action string “AddAnnouncement” Required
date \datetime Date in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS Required
title string Required
announcement string Announcement text Required
published bool Pass as true to publish Optional

Response Parameters

Parameter Type Description
result string The result of the operation: success or error
announcementid int The id of the new announcement

Example Request (CURL)

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.example.com/includes/api.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
    http_build_query(
        array(
            'action' => 'AddAnnouncement',
            // See https://developers.whmcs.com/api/authentication
            'username' => 'IDENTIFIER_OR_ADMIN_USERNAME',
            'password' => 'SECRET_OR_HASHED_PASSWORD',
            'date' => '2016-01-01 15:30:00',
            'title' => 'Sample announcement',
            'announcement' => 'Text goes here...',
            'published' => '1',
            'responsetype' => 'json',
        )
    )
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Example Request (Local API)

$command = 'AddAnnouncement';
$postData = array(
    'date' => '2016-01-01 15:30:00',
    'title' => 'Sample announcement',
    'announcement' => 'Text goes here...',
    'published' => '1',
);
$adminUsername = 'ADMIN_USERNAME'; // Optional for WHMCS 7.2 and later

$results = localAPI($command, $postData, $adminUsername);
print_r($results);

Example Response JSON

{
    "result": "success",
    "announcementid": "1"
}

Version History

Version Changelog
1.0 Initial Version