Note: You will need the API URL and API token for your FreshBooks account, see http://developers.freshbooks.com/

Your FreshBooks API URL has a single point of entry, derived from your account URL:

https://sample.freshbooks.com/api/2.1/xml-in

After enabling API access for your account, you’ll be given a unique authentication token. The admin user, and each staff member, has an API token. The admin user’s authentication token can be found on the “enable FreshBooks API” page. The staff token can be found on each staff member’s Profile page, or on the Edit Staff page (for admin only). At this time, staff members have limited access to the API (see the individual method pages for details).

Please note your authentication token is based on your account password. If your password changes, so will your authentication token.

To use this widget, install the plugin and then in the widgets setup admin area drag the “Freshbooks Widget” to a sidebar. Input your Title, API URL, and API token. Note, using the Freshbooks Admin API token will return the number hours billed by the Admin user and all the Staff accounts associated with the Admin account (the entire team), whereas inputing a Staff token will output the hours billed by that staff user only.

Screenshots

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Check with your host provider to turn-off “safe_mode” if this warning appears.

Thanks to developer: Milan Rukavina for providing a PHP5 library for the FreshBooks API. Saves the time of dealing with XML calls directly. Available at: http://code.google.com/p/freshbooks-php-library/

Wordpress 2.8 and up.

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PHP is a hypertext preprocessor, meaning that its function is to produce something functional; in this case HTML, the markup language that web browsers understand. This allows dynamic information to be reached or calculated and then translated into something a browser understands in real time. Without this capability, websites would be very static, non-interactive, and incapable of providing unique experiences for each viewer. Imagine a world without web-based client logins, bill-pay, or online forums like Facebook and Twitter.

Order Of Events

PHP is a scripting language that is hosted on a server and is executed by the server stack when a website is accessed.

PHP can grab information stored in databases, talk to other computers and programs, and execute its own internal mathematical and logical functions in real time and produce the HTML website you see on your screen. In fact, this page you’re viewing now was highly preprocessed using PHP the moment you visited the page!

PHPrimer

A standard static webpage has the form:

On a web server, a preprocessed web page looks more like:

where $data may refer to information from a database or even a function that adds numbers together. Static HTML is incapable of this functionality. Most importantly, a user’s web browser only sees the result of the executed function. For example, if $data was a function that calculated the number of city residents that ordered a particular meal from a certain restaurant, then the browser would only see:

A simple diagram and a simple example, but a powerful tool in the web arsenal.

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