SCORM Cloud PHP API Bindings

This library provides implementations for the majority, but not all, of the SCORM Cloud API. It is provided under the BSD 3-clause License (see LICENSE).

You can sign up for a SCORM Cloud account at https://cloud.scorm.com.

See our API quick start guide for more information.

Requirements

Requires PHP 5 or greater.

Installation

This library is available via Composer.

Command-line:

composer require rustici-software/scorm-cloud

Composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "rustici-software/scorm-cloud": "dev-master"
    }
}

Alternately, the top-level .php files can be included in your project.

Configuration

The ScormEngineService class provides simple access to the API bindings:

$scormCloud = new ScormEngineService(
    "https://cloud.scorm.com/EngineWebServices",
    "your app id",
    "your secret key",
    "your origin string");

where your app id is the app ID in question, your secret key is a secret key for that app ID, and your origin string is a company/app description. (The origin string is used for debugging on the SCORM Cloud developers' side.) See API quick start for information on app ID / secret keys.

Example API Calls

Once installed and configured, it's time to make API calls. As explained in the quick start guide, the library implements the scaffolding used to interact with the actual web API.

The samples directory contains sample code for several API calls. It's not required for the library to function.

Registration Exists

Corresponds to rustici.registration.exists.

$exists = $scormCloud->getRegistrationService()->Exists("reg id");

Create Registration

Corresponds to rustici.registration.createRegistration.

$scormCloud->getRegistrationService()->CreateRegistration(
    "registration id",
    "course id",
    "learner id",
    "learner first name",
    "learner last name");

As explained in the LMS Integration Guide, the registration, course, and learner IDs are provided by your system. The course ID needs to be an ID for a course that's already been imported. See the LMS integration guide for more information about integrating a typical LMS with SCORM Cloud.

Building Launch Link

As explained in rustici.registration.launch, the launch API call is different from nearly every other API call in that it's intended for integrating systems to redirect learners to that API call URL instead of calling it server-side.

The client library facilitates this by providing a GetLaunchUrl method:

$launchUrl = $scormCloud->getRegistrationService()->GetLaunchUrl(
    "registration id",
    "redirect on exit url");

where registration id is the registration to launch and redirect on exit url is the URL to which the learner should be redirected if they exit the course. (Note: as discussed in the LMS Integration Guide, don't rely on learners hitting the redirect on exit URL.)

In a typical PHP web-app, you might redirect to this:

header('Location: ' . $launchUrl);
die();

The library provides other (default null) parameters for GetLaunchUrl that might be useful.

Implementing Other API Calls

Although this library implements most of the SCORM Cloud API, it doesn't implement all of it. In cases where the library is insufficient, you can use the ServiceRequest class to directly call API methods described in the API reference:

$request = $scormCloud->CreateNewRequest();

$request->setMethodParams(array(
    'regid' => 'your reg id'
));

$response = $request->CallService("rustici.registration.exists");
$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);

$exists = ($xml->result == 'true');

This snippet of code manually builds a ServiceRequest with one parameter and then uses CallService to invoke the request for a particular API method.

As it happens, this is (close to) the implementation of the RegistrationExists method above.

If you find methods missing and would like to implement them, we would be eternally grateful for any pull requests.

Support

Need to get in touch with us? Contact us at support@scorm.com. Ask us anything.

Don't hesitate to submit technical questions. Our support staff are excellent, and even if they can't answer a question or resolve a problem, tickets get escalated quickly to real, live developers.