Project Title: BasicVoyager

Project Overview:

The project aims to integrate allow the user to connect to the their bank via PHP and get their account balance. The Basiq API was found to be a simple, accessible and inexpensive service to provide the API access and thus retrieve account balance information for a specific savings account at a specific bank. The user is a PHP developer who is familiar with APIs but had difficulty understanding how to use the Basiq dashboard and API.

Project Phases

The project is divided into several phases:

Phase 1 - Research available banking API services and tools

• Status: Completed
• Status Update

Phase 2 - Understanding Basiq API and Dashboard

• Status: Completed
• Status Update

Phase 3 - Setting up the Development Environment

• Status: Completed
• Status Update

Phase 4 - Configuring Basiq API Dashboard and Generating API Key

• Status: Completed
• Status Update

Phase 5 - Establishing and Debugging Basiq API Connection in PHP

• Status: Completed
• Status Update

Phase 6 - Creating a user in your application via the PHP API

• Status: Completed
• Status Update

Todo

• Update the BankingData Wrapper to work with a composer installed version of the BasiqPHPAPI

This includes setting up a local web server, implementing user authentication, retrieving account balance information, displaying account balance information, and error handling and testing.

Start Date: Thursday August 4th 2023