Integrate with existing website

You can integrate the Grupo Chat script into your existing website and achieve a seamless user experience with Single Sign-On (SSO). You can utilize the Grupo API for SSO requests.

API Request helps you to

• Generate Auto Login URL
• Create User (if account doesn’t exists) & Generate Auto Login URL

Request URL
https://yourgrupowebsiteaddress/api_request/

Request body

Field	Description/Values	Required/Optional
api_secret_key	Your Grupo API Secret Key. For API Secret Key, Click on Menu > Select Settings > Select General Settings > Find API Secret Key	Required
add	login_session	Required
email_address	The email address of the user	Required
create_account	Whether to create account if account doesn’t exists [yes|no]	Required
full_name	The name of the user	Required
username	Username for the user	Required
password	Password for the user	Required
site_role	For Site Role ID : Click on Menu > Select Modules > Select Site Roles > Click on Site Role you Prefer > Select Edit > Find “Identifier”	Optional
avatarURL	The URL for the user’s avatar image	Optional
custom_field_[id]	Replace [id] with Custom field ID. For Custom Field ID : Click on Menu > Select Modules > Select Custom Field > Click on Custom Field you Prefer to Add > Select Edit > Find “Identifier”.	Optional

Response Body

KEY	Description/Values
success	This returns true on success and false on failure.
error_message	Returns a relevant error message
error_key	This method returns the error key associated with the error

Example PHP Code

<?php

//Enter the following values
$grupo_web_address = 'http://yourgrupowebaddress/';

$api_secret_key = 'Your Grupo API Secret Key';
$email_address = 'The email address of the user';

//Details of the account to be created (If account doesn't exist)
$create_account = 'yes'; // Whether to Create Account if not exists [yes|no]
$full_name = 'The name of the user';
$username = 'Username for the user';
$password = 'Password for the user';
$avatar = 'User profile image URL';
$site_role_id =  ''; // Optional

$iframe_embed = true; // Whether to embed Grupo using iFrame [true|false]
$iframe_width = '500px';
$iframe_height = '700px';

//Ignore the rest
$post_fields=[
  'api_secret_key' => $api_secret_key,
  'add' => 'login_session',
  'create_account'=> $create_account,
  'email_address' => $email_address,
  'full_name' => $full_name,
  'username' => $username,
  'password' => $password,
  'avatarURL' => $avatar,
  'site_role' => $site_role_id,
];

$api_request_url = rtrim($grupo_web_address, '/').'/'.'api_request/';

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => $api_request_url,
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $post_fields,
  CURLOPT_USERAGENT=>'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0'
));


$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if (!empty($response)) {
    $response = json_decode($response);
    if (!empty($response)) {
        if ($response->success) {
            if ($iframe_embed) {
                echo "<iframe src='".$response->auto_login_url."' width='".$iframe_width."' height='".$iframe_height."' allow='camera;microphone' frameborder=0 allowfullscreen></iframe>";
            } else {
                header("Location: $response->auto_login_url");
                die();
            }
        } else {
            echo $response->error_message;
        }
    }
}