Get number of clients

Hi,

How can I get the number of clients using the API? (to show it on my website)

Thanks

this won't specifically tell you how to do it via API, but if you want to use PHP to create a smarty variable, you might take a look at the thread below...

http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?86718-Is-there-s-smarty-syntax-to-display-total-of-clients

this won't specifically tell you how to do it via API, but if you want to use PHP to create a smarty variable, you might take a look at the thread below...

 

http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?86718-Is-there-s-smarty-syntax-to-display-total-of-clients

Nice! But the problem is that I need to show it on my website (WordPress) because my main website is not powered by WHMCS. How would I go about that?

The WHMCS API is somewhat extensible.

Indirectly you can get this number probably iterating GetClients API function and counting keys but to me it seems a very bad solution. What if you have 2000 clients in your WHMCS? Spamming GetClients for every single visitor on your website and every page view sounds stupid.

The best way for me is very simple. Make a php script on WHMCS, include DB connection, query database to COUNT() tblclients and print the resulting number. Now on Wordpress call this file (a get content should be fine) and job done. You have your number. This solution is better because it's faster and doesn't overload without a valid reasons WHMCS and your webserver. Personally I'll also cache this value.

Create a file, in the root of your WHMCS, called "clientcount.php". Within that file, put the following code:

<?php

require("init.php");

// Get the client count
$table = "tblclients";
$fields = "COUNT(*) AS clientcount";
$result = select_query($table,$fields);
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
 $clientcount = $data['clientcount'];
}

echo $clientcount;

?>

Now you can call this externally, by using the following code:

<?php

$clientcount = file_get_contents('http://www.yourdomain.com/clientcount.php'); // Full URL to clientcount.php
echo 'Total Number of Clients: ' . $clientcount;

?>

Hopefully, that helps.

As this is Googles first answer for whmcs get clients. For wordpress we wrote the following to get ours working, allowing us to tie it into a shortcode as well:

//WHMCS Get Clients Shortcode
//Written by Kyle - www.blacknovadesigns.co.uk
function bnd_whmcs_get_clients_shortcode() {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://YOUR-DOMAIN-WHERE-WHMCS-IS/includes/api.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
    http_build_query(
        array(
            'action' => 'GetClients',
            'username' => 'API-TOKEN-ID',
            'password' => 'API-TOKEN-PASSWORD,
            'responsetype' => 'json',
        )
    )
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$results = json_decode($response, true);
curl_close($ch);

echo "<h3>" .$results['totalresults']. "</h3>";
echo "<p>HAPPY CLIENTS</p>";
}
add_shortcode( 'whmcsgetclients', 'bnd_whmcs_get_clients_shortcode' );

Hopefully this will help for anyone looking to do this them selves in the future.