PHP path question? Instructions vague

jabbamonkey · October 13, 2023, 2:56pm

Having trouble with the instructions on https://github.com/Patreon/patreon-php. I created my Client and API keys … and am trying to now integrate the PHP code into my site… The code for their example starts with…

require_once DIR.‘/vendor/autoload.php’;

That is giving me an error because the instructions don’t tell me how to modify the path (so my server doesn’t know where to look for these files). I assume I need to replace the DIR with a different directory. I checked the PHP files that they provide (GitHub - Patreon/patreon-php: Interact with the Patreon API via OAuth, but there is no vendor/autoload.php in the files.

In addition, even if these files existed … I dont know where to upload any of these files on my server … the root level of my server, the root of my site…?

codebard · October 16, 2023, 11:32pm

If you installed the lib through composer, everything should be automatically set up already.

If you are installing it without composer, refer to the instructions to install it without composer.

jabbamonkey · October 17, 2023, 2:31am

The only instructions that I see for “installing” the libraries are …

### Install

`composer require patreon/patreon`

View the source on [github](https://github.com/Patreon/patreon-php)

There’s no mention of installing without composer. (note: my programming knowledge is pretty limited, and I’m unfamiliar with installing PHP libraries. I’m not even sure I’d have access to composer on my shared host’s environment).

jabbamonkey · October 20, 2023, 2:30pm

It seems that support is very limited for Patreon. Anyone have any other alternatives they recommend?

codebard · October 24, 2023, 3:39am

You should be able to use the library by directly including the necessary files after ftping them. However, that does require programming knowledge and you would need to get help if you dont know how to do it. Without it, you wouldnt be able to use a library anyway.

A better option for you would be to use a WordPress site and install the WordPress plugin. It wouldnt require any programming knowledge to install and maintain.

jabbamonkey · October 25, 2023, 7:16pm

Just “uploading the files” doesn’t work. BUT, I did have my webhost install the libraries, and it looks like they are working fine now…

Does anyone know a simple PHP conditional statement to show contents only IF a user is logged in through patreon?

For example:

<?php 

if($patreonloggedin == TRUE && $patreontier=="1") {

     // Show this content

} else {

     // Show "go login" statement

}

?>

codebard · October 26, 2023, 12:36am

Try to read the examples in the php library:

jabbamonkey · October 26, 2023, 12:52pm

Yeah, there’s no conditionals for “logged in users” in there … There are a ton of variables … but the examples don’t specify which variable or what values constitute “logged in”.

And if I try and echo out these variables in a PHP file (to see what their contents are), almost all of them come up empty (and I know it’s linking to my patreon, because the link one of the examples shows points me onto my patreon page).

codebard · October 28, 2023, 5:44pm

Yeah, there’s no conditionals for “logged in users” in there

Thats not correct.

github.com

Patreon/patreon-php/blob/master/examples/log_in_user_via_patreon.php

<?php

// This example shows how to have your users log in via Patreon, and acquire access and refresh tokens after logging in

require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
 
use Patreon\API;
use Patreon\OAuth;

$client_id = '';      // Replace with your data
$client_secret = '';  // Replace with your data

// Set the redirect url where the user will land after oAuth. That url is where the access code will be sent as a _GET parameter. This may be any url in your app that you can accept and process the access code and login

// In this case, say, /patreon_login request uri

$redirect_uri = "http://mydomain.com/patreon_login"; // Replace http://mydomain.com/patreon_login with the url at your site which is going to receive users returning from Patreon confirmation 

// Generate the oAuth url

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This example demonstrates how to implement log in via Patreon. At the moment you have an access token, it means that the user has Patreon authorized. At this point you would need to log that user into your own website system in however way your system does it.

github.com

Patreon/patreon-php/blob/master/examples/user_details_and_patronage.php

<?php

// This example shows you how to get details of the current user and other info like active membership which the user has

// We assume that you already logged the user in via Patreon to get the access token, or already logged in the user via Patreon before, and got and saved the access token, and reading it from wherever you saved it for this user

// We assume you put the access token into an $access_token var

require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
 
use Patreon\API;
use Patreon\OAuth;

// Start new Patreon API client
$api_client = new API($access_token);

// Fetch the user's details
$current_member = $api_client->fetch_user();

// $current_patron now has the user details. The return should match the documentation for /identity return at https://docs.patreon.com/#get-api-oauth2-v2-identity which should be augmented by additionally requested scopes.

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And the above example demonstrates how to check for member details that could be used to implement member-only features.

It may be easier for you to ask whomever developed your website for you to implement it or get someone with more experience in PHP to help.

jabbamonkey · October 28, 2023, 7:00pm

So, by that logic, couldn’t you get the member details … such as, what membership tier they have (I’m not sure how to call that variable based on the example above) … and then do a simple conditional based on that?

codebard · October 28, 2023, 7:42pm

Yes, it should bring anything that is needed. Just var_dump the return once and identify what fields you need from the info. Then you should be able to use those fields over the current_user variable.

jabbamonkey · October 30, 2023, 1:08am

I ran the user_details_and_patronage.php on my server… and echo’d out all the variables. Most of the variabales that the example document has come up empty (I dont see any mention of this issue in the documentation or the examples). I thought it would return all my information…

<!-- 
api_client: 
Patreon\API Object
(
    [access_token:Patreon\API:private] => 
    [api_endpoint] => https://www.patreon.com/api/oauth2/v2/
    [api_request_method] => GET
    [curl_postfields] => 
    [api_return_format] => array
)
 -->

<!-- patron_response: -->

<!-- email: { -->

<!-- first_name: { -->

<!-- last_name: { -->

<!-- full_name: { -->

<!-- etc... -->

It’s not fetching the user information. And the line below doesn’t seem to be doing anything…

$api_client = new API($access_token);

$access_token has no value before or after that line. Should that be declared or pulled from elsewhere? (cause that’s not working)

codebard · November 1, 2023, 5:52pm

You should have logged the user in per the user login example and then save that token somewhere. Then you can use that token in that example to get the info.

jabbamonkey · November 5, 2023, 1:32pm

I decided to not use Patreon. Spent the last couple weeks trying to set this up, but I’m just not getting the support I need. Instead, I just setup my own member section and shop on my site, and decided to use PayPal to manage my subscriptions.

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