Docusign PHP API – Send document to recipient for signature

DocuSign provides many different code examples that demonstrate a variety of scenarios in each supported language (C#, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, and raw API calls using Bash and PowerShell).

Using Docusign PHP API’s to send documents for signature.

<?php
// Input your info here:
$integratorKey = 'abcd-1234567-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx';
$email = 'yourlogin@org.com';
$password = 'yourP@ssword';

$recipient_email = 'recipientemail@org.com';
$name = 'Your Name';
$document_name = 'order_form.pdf';

// construct the authentication header:
$header = "&lt;DocuSignCredentials&gt;&lt;Username&gt;" . $email . "&lt;/Username&gt;&lt;Password&gt;" . $password . "&lt;/Password&gt;&lt;IntegratorKey&gt;" . $integratorKey . "&lt;/IntegratorKey&gt;&lt;/DocuSignCredentials&gt;";

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// STEP 1 - Login (to retrieve baseUrl and accountId)
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$url = "https://demo.docusign.net/restapi/v2/login_information";
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("X-DocuSign-Authentication: $header"));

$json_response = curl_exec($curl);
$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

if ( $status != 200 ) {
	echo "error calling webservice, status is:" . $status;
	exit(-1);
}

$response = json_decode($json_response, true);
$accountId = $response&#91;"loginAccounts"]&#91;0]&#91;"accountId"];
$baseUrl = $response&#91;"loginAccounts"]&#91;0]&#91;"baseUrl"];
curl_close($curl);

//--- display results
echo "\naccountId = " . $accountId . "\nbaseUrl = " . $baseUrl . "\n";

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// STEP 2 - Create an envelope with one recipient, one tab, one document and send!
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$data = "{
  \"emailBlurb\":\"This comes from PHP\",
  \"emailSubject\":\"DocuSign API - Please Sign This Document...\",
  \"documents\":&#91;
    {
      \"documentId\":\"1\",
      \"name\":\"".$document_name."\"
    }
  ],
  \"recipients\":{
    \"signers\":&#91;
      {
        \"email\":\"$recipient_email\",
        \"name\":\"$name\",
        \"recipientId\":\"1\",
        \"tabs\":{
          \"signHereTabs\":&#91;
            {
              \"anchorString\":\"Signature:\",
              \"anchorXOffset\":\"0\",
              \"anchorYOffset\":\"0\",
              \"documentId\":\"1\",
              \"pageNumber\":\"1\"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  \"status\":\"sent\"
}";  

$file_contents = file_get_contents($document_name);

$requestBody = "\r\n"
."\r\n"
."--myboundary\r\n"
."Content-Type: application/json\r\n"
."Content-Disposition: form-data\r\n"
."\r\n"
."$data\r\n"
."--myboundary\r\n"
."Content-Type:application/pdf\r\n"
."Content-Disposition: file; filename=\"order_form.pdf\"; documentid=1 \r\n"
."\r\n"
."$file_contents\r\n"
."--myboundary--\r\n"
."\r\n";

// *** append "/envelopes" to baseUrl and as signature request endpoint
$curl = curl_init($baseUrl . "/envelopes" );
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $requestBody);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
	'Content-Type: multipart/form-data;boundary=myboundary',
	'Content-Length: ' . strlen($requestBody),
	"X-DocuSign-Authentication: $header" )
);

$json_response = curl_exec($curl);
$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if ( $status != 201 ) {
	echo "error calling webservice, status is:" . $status . "\nerror text is --&gt; ";
	print_r($json_response); echo "\n";
	exit(-1);
}

$response = json_decode($json_response, true);
$envelopeId = $response&#91;"envelopeId"];

//--- display results
echo "Document is sent! Envelope ID = " . $envelopeId . "\n\n"; 

?>

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Thank you very much!