API PHP Code Sample: Create a Task

In this PHP code sample we'll see how to create a task from XML data using the API and the Curl library. When using this code, remember to replace variable values with your own to avoid errors.

The API documentation for the task resource can be found at:
https://www.myintervals.com/api/resource.php?r=task


//create the xml file to POST
$putString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n";
$putString .= "<task>\n";
$putString .= "<statusid>67329</statusid>\n";
$putString .= "<projectid>920391</projectid>\n";
$putString .= "<moduleid>667821</moduleid>\n";
$putString .= "<title>New Task</title>\n";
$putString .= "<dateopen>2010-05-26</dateopen>\n";
$putString .= "<datedue>2010-05-29</datedue>\n";
$putString .= "<priorityid>46781</priorityid>\n";
$putString .= "<ownerid>97351</ownerid>\n";
$putString .= "<assigneeid>101881, 100283</assigneeid>\n";
$putString .= "<summary>A summary of the task</summary>\n";
$putString .= "</task>\n";

//set api token value to your api token
$apiToken = "";

//intialize and send the curl request
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.myintervals.com/task");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $apiToken. ":");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Accept: application/xml", "Content-type: application/xml"));
//POST
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $putString);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

//output the resulting XML
echo $response;