Backpack, the API, and PHP

I’m now a paid Backpacker—I’ve been using 37signals’ new invention for a number of days now, and I do say—it’s pretty great. Today I shelled out the $5 to become a paid customer and gained access to file uploads (which dissapointly are not linked in public), photo storage, and advertising-free public pages. I’m also experimenting with how Backpack works out in the wild as a personal site, so expect to hear more about it in the future.

Anyways. My Backpack is public, so please root through it if you haven’t already. That’s what it’s for. If you don’t have a Backpack account, you should get one. It’s free, so unless you can think of a good reason not to, I suggest you head on over to backpackit.com do yourself a favor.

Now, where were we? Oh, this evening I was mucking about with the newly announced Backpack API and I wrote a crude PHP Class that wraps the said API so that you can access (and create) Backpack items from your PHP application in a few lines of code.

You can download it and look at it of course:

Backpack API for PHP

Like I wrote on the download page, ”...barely tested, but it seems to work. Honestly, this was about 10 minutes worth of work, so don’t bust me if it smells in places.”

I’ll update/maintain it if anyone is interested.

• By Jeffrey Hardy on
• May 19, 05:47 AM