api_endpoint – This value is adjusted based on the value of $sandbox and sets the URL for API calls accordingly.For example, take a look at the documentation for GeteBayOfficalTime and you’ll see at the very top it shows the current version as of the time of this writing is 753. This can be found at the very top of the documentation page for any given API call. compat_level – This variable stores the compatibility level, or the API version, that you’re using within this call.sandbox – This is a Boolean flag that adjusts whether or not the application should run on the eBay sandbox (test server) or not.$auth_token = $sandbox ? '12341234ASDFASDF234234' : '' Īs you can see, this file simply sets values for the following variables: I’ve created a file, config.php, and have stored it within my project files. As I mentioned in part 1, I generally do this with a configuration file and that’s exactly what we’ll do here. The first thing we need to do in order to make calls is make our API credentials available to our application. So, let’s get started! Configuration File Then we’ll look at GetItem, which is a little bit more involved and allows us to retrieve information about eBay items programmatically. I’m going to start with a very simple call, GeteBayOfficalTime, which as the name suggests will return the current time that eBay is running on. After reviewing the samples in this article I think you’ll feel much more comfortable with these methods and will be making your own calls to eBay without any trouble. For part 2, we’ll be building some actual API calls from start to finish. We reviewed each step in the process, but we haven’t actually seen any of this in action yet.

In part of 1 of this 2-part series, we covered all of the basics of what exactly is involved with making calls to eBay’s API using PHP.

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