Offering to maintain Cpanel Integration

Request to maintain this module for Drupal 7 plus.

After requiring cPanel integration of various jobs, I decided to write a module for this. It is only going to be for Drupal 7 plus.

At the core of my implementation is a classed based API that is mapped to the various cPanel XML API functions.

Initially I will look at two minor sub-modules, cpanel_ui & cpanel_user.

cPanel UI (cpanel_ui)

A module to handle common cPanel functions. Will look at the basic email functions initially, then FTP & MySQL functions.

cPanel User Integration (cpanel_user)

Automate pop3 account creation for new user accounts. I maybe will look at ftp integration latter.

API Usage

So for example, adding a new forwarder would be done using a call similar to:

  // Load the default settings for a server. Multiple servers are supported.
  $settings = variable_get('cpanel_default', cpanel_default_settings());

  // This gets a class for the connection
  $http_client = cpanel_http_client($settings);

  // Core workhorse class, with root password to WHM
  $mainController = new cPanelController($http_client, $settings);

  // This targets the controller to the cpanel user account
  $mainController->setActiveAccount('accountname');

  // Wrapper class for the cPanel Email module
  $controller = new emailCPanelController($mainController);
  $controller->addforward('user', 'example.com', 'real-address@hotmail.com');

But normally would be done via a wrapper function:

  // Using the default server, get the cpanel email wrapper for the account 'accountname'.
  $controller = new emailCPanelController(cpanel('accountname'));

  // And adds the forwarder
  $controller->addforward('user', 'example.com', 'real-address@hotmail.com');