reason-digital / virgin-money-giving-api
Provides a PHP library for interacting with the Virgin Money Giving API.
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Requires
- guzzlehttp/guzzle: ~6.0
- rap2hpoutre/convert-accent-characters: ^0.1.0
Requires (Dev)
- fzaninotto/faker: ^1.7
- php-coveralls/php-coveralls: ^2.1
- phpunit/phpunit: ^7.0
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Last update: 2025-11-09 10:46:11 UTC
README
README
Provides a PHP library for interacting with the Virgin Money Giving API.
This library will help with pushing and pulling data from the API. Unfortunately the API has quite a few undocumented quirks that this library hopes to stop developers falling into.
Prerequisites
API Keys
To interact with the VGM API you will need to get API keys. To do this you'll need to register on the site (https://developer.virginmoneygiving.com/member/register).
You will need to create an application here on the Apps overview page: /apps/myapps.
Then on your keys overview page you can grab your API key: /apps/mykeys.
For some reason you will need different API keys for different API calls. The list can be found here:
https://developer.virginmoneygiving.com/our_apis
Test data
When testing against the Sandbox there are a few bits of test data already setup:
Charities
| Name | Resource ID |
|---|---|
| Charity2 | 6a5880c9-13e4-4cf4-987e-931f3899b9d5 |
| Cancer Charity | 8da32779-1c1b-4d20-8714-df3219836618 |
Fundraisers
@todo - If there are any
Events
@todo - Grab some default ones
Installation
Install the latest version with:
$ composer require reason-digital/virgin-money-giving-api
Usage
Fundraiser search
To use the fundraiser search you'll need to use your fundraiser developer API key. Any other key will return a 403 response.
<?php // Initialise the connector $fundraiserConnector = new FundraiserVmgConnector('API_KEY', $guzzleClient, $testMode = false); try { $response = $fundraiserConnector->search('Test', 'User'); } catch (ConnectorException $exception) { // VMG error message No fundraiser found for forename=User surname=Test $exception->getErrorMessage(); // VMG erorr code 001.02.011 $exception->getErrorCode(); }
$response is then an instance of the Responses/FundraiserSearchResponse.php class. This has a hasMatches(): bool method.
Fundraiser account create
To create fundraiser accounts you'll need to use your fundraiser developer API key. Any other key will return a 403 response.
There are a few gotchas with this API call. First is that the callback url you pass to createFundraiserAccount needs to match what you have setup in your VMG account or you wont get an access code back with the response. Instead you'll get the following response:
OAuth access token not created. Error Code: <-2001> Message: <Invalid redirect_uri> Description: <N/A>
If the callback url matches then you'll get the following response:
Token expires in 1500 seconds
This access code is valid for 1500 seconds and allows to to create a fundraising page on the fundraisers behalf.
There are some fields that have validation. They can be found here: Models/FundraiserTest.php
<?php // Initialise the connector $fundraiserConnector = new FundraiserVmgConnector('API_KEY', $guzzleClient, $testMode = false); try { $fundraiser = new Fundraiser(); $fundraiser->setTitle('Mr') ->setForename('firstName') ->setSurname('lastName') ->setAddressLine1('streetName') ->setAddressLine2('streetAddress') ->setTownCity('city') ->setCountyState('county') ->setPostcode('postcode') ->setCountryCode('countryCode') ->setPreferredTelephone('12345678912') ->setEmailAddress('Email') ->setPersonalUrl('url') ->setTermsAndConditionsAccepted('Y') ->setDateOfBirth('20010101'); $fundraiserResponse = $fundraiserConnector->createFundraiserAccount($fundraiser, 'CALLBACK_URL'); } catch (ConnectorException $exception) { $exception->getErrorMessage(); $exception->getErrorCode(); }
$fundraiserResponse is then an instance of the Responses/FundraiserCreateResponse.php class.
This has the Fundraiser and also the access code returned.
Fundraiser page create (with token)
NOTE: First off you'll need an access token to create a page on behalf of the user. This is only available when you have created the users account programmatically as above.
If you don't have this, then the below will not work.
First off we're assuming you have the following:
$fundraiseris aModels/Fundraiser.phpobject as above$fundraiserResponseis aResponses/FundraiserCreateResponse.phpobject as above
Then
<?php // Initialise the connector $fundraiserConnector = new FundraiserVmgConnector('API_KEY', $guzzleClient, $testMode = false); try { $page = new Page(); $page->setPageTitle() ->setEventResourceId('EVENT_ID') ->setFundraisingTarget(2000.00) ->setCharityResourceId('CHARITY_ID') ->setCharitySplits([ [ 'charityResourceId' => '6a5880c9-13e4-4cf4-987e-931f3899b9d5', 'charitySplitPercent' => 50 ], [ 'charityResourceId' => '8da32779-1c1b-4d20-8714-df3219836618', 'charitySplitPercent' => 50 ] ]); // Now create the page. $pageCreateResponse = $fundraiserConnector->createFundraiserPage($page, $fundraiser, $fundraiserResponse->getAccessToken()); } catch (ConnectorException $exception) { $exception->getErrorMessage(); $exception->getErrorCode(); }
$pageCreateResponse is then an instance of the Responses/PageCreateResponse.php class.
This has the Page and the page URI. accessed via: $pageCreateResponse->getPageURI();
Running tests
Travis CI is setup to run tests on PRs and master. To run tests locally you will need to pull down the repo with the dev dependencies by running:
composer self-update
composer install --prefer-source --no-interaction --dev
Once installed running phpunit will run tests.
Roadmap
- Get fundraising pages for an event - #5
- Get the fundraising total for an event
- Create a fundraising page on behalf of someone who already has an account
- Handling the auth token
- Creating the account (same API call?)