OpenTicket

Open a new ticket

Request Parameters

Response Parameters

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' => 'OpenTicket',
            // See https://developers.whmcs.com/api/authentication
            'username' => 'IDENTIFIER_OR_ADMIN_USERNAME',
            'password' => 'SECRET_OR_HASHED_PASSWORD',
            'deptid' => '1',
            'subject' => 'This is a sample ticket',
            'message' => 'This is a **sample** ticket message',
            'clientid' => '1',
            'priority' => 'Medium',
            'markdown' => true,
            'attachments' => base64_encode(json_encode([['name' => 'sample_text_file.txt', 'data' => base64_encode('This is a sample text file contents')]])),
            'preventClientClosure' => true,
            'responsetype' => 'json',
        )
    )
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Example Request (Local API)

$command = 'OpenTicket';
$postData = array(
    'deptid' => '1',
    'subject' => 'This is a sample ticket',
    'message' => 'This is a **sample** ticket message',
    'clientid' => '1',
    'priority' => 'Medium',
    'markdown' => true,
    'attachments' => base64_encode(json_encode([['name' => 'sample_text_file.txt', 'data' => base64_encode('This is a sample text file contents')]])),
    'preventClientClosure' => true,
);
$adminUsername = 'ADMIN_USERNAME'; // Optional for WHMCS 7.2 and later

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

Example Response JSON

{
    "result": "success",
    "id": "1",
    "tid": "516757",
    "c": "KPqH7yG3"
}

Error Responses

Possible error condition responses include:

• Client ID Not Found
• The system cannot find the provided user ID.
• Contact ID Not Found
• Name and email address are required if not a client
• Department ID not found
• Subject is required
• Message is required
• Service ID Not Found
• Domain ID Not Found
• Email Address Invalid
• Invalid Date Format
• Ticket creation date cannot be in the future
• Unable to generate ticket number

Version History