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vCloud SDK for PHP Developer's Guide
Creating Top-Level Objects
The vCloud SDK for PHP provides methods that you can use to create a reference to a top level vCloud API
object such as VCloud and VMWExtension. These objects do not have containers, so you cannot use the more
common method shown in Example
To create a VMware_VCloud_SDK_Service object to use as an entrypoint for user API operations:
$service = VMware_VCloud_SDK_Service::getService();
To create a VMware_VCloud_SDK_Admin object to use as an entrypoint for administrative operations:
$sdkAdminObj = $service->createSDKAdminObj();
To create a VMware_VCloud_SDK_Extension object to use as an entrypoint for vSphere Platform
Extensions operations:
$sdkExtObj = $service->createSDKExtensionObj();
Using a Different HTTP Library
Example programs included in the vCloud SDK for PHP require the PEAR HTTP_Request2 package. To use a
different HTTP library, create an HTTP client object that implements the
VMware_VCloud_SDK_Http_Client_Interface interface, and then can call the
VMware_VCloud_SDK_Service::getService() method specifying that client.
$service = VMware_VCloud_SDK_Service::getService($myHTTPClient);
Using the HTML Reference Material
The reference documentation in the in the docs folder of the vCloud SDK for PHP download provides detailed
information on classes and functions.
To use the HTML documentation
1
Open the docs folder in the download and open the file index.html in a browser.
2
Select VMware_VCloud_API from the Packages drop‐down menu.
3
Select a class (for example, VMware_VCloud_API_AdminOrgType) in the left‐hand pane.
4
Go to the Method Summary section in the right‐hand pane and click the link for the __construct()
method.
The method summary lists the constructors for required and optional attributes and elements of the class,
sorted by type. You can click the name of any element, then go to its method summary to get information
about its constructors. For example, VMware_VCloud_API_AdminOrgType requires a
VMware_VCloud_API_OrgSettingsType element. You can click the element name to see its method
summary, and click its __construct() method to see the details of how to construct it.
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