Integrate Cloud Firestore with WHMCS

Cloud Firestore

Cloud Firestore is an object-query database, similar to MongoDB or DocumentDB, that you can use for your mobile and web applications. Google created this database to be serverless, scalable, and easy to use. As a developer, you don’t need to worry about scaling your database. Google will take care of it for you. If you’re using Node.js or Java on the backend, you can talk to this database with the Firebase SDK.

WHMCS

WHMCS is an open-source web hosting contrp panel used by web hosting providers to manage their customers’ accounts on the fly. It was developed in 2004 by Nick Grizada and officially released in 2005. The first version was written in ASP and PHP, but the current version uses ASP.NET MVC on the back end. WHMCS has more than 250,000 customers worldwide. The massive community is comprised of users, developers, resellers, and service providers.

Integration of Cloud Firestore and WHMCS

Cloud Firestore works as a real-time database that provides a wide range of tops for you to store and query data from any programming language. For example, if you’re a Ruby developer, you can use a gem called “firebase-firestore” to connect to the database. You can also use the Firebase SDK for Java if you want to program in Java. Another great feature of Cloud Firestore is that it supports offline access via a PouchDB adapter. This means that you can build apps that run offline as well as online. In other words, you can build apps that support disconnected scenarios as well as connected scenarios.

In order to connect to Cloud Firestore from WHMCS, you have to install the “Firebase PHP library.” After installation, you need to create a Firebase project and a Cloud Firestore database. Next, a configuration file needs to be created so that WHMCS can use Cloud Firestore as its database. The code below shows how the connection is created:

$app = new Firebase(array( 'databaseURL' => 'https://your-firebase-name.firebaseio.com', 'authDomain' => 'your-firebase-name', 'projectId' => 'your-firebase-name', )); $client = new Firebase_PHP( $app['config'], array( 'version' => '1.1', 'scope' => array( 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform' . )); $client->init(); 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 $ app = new Firebase ( array ( 'databaseURL' = > 'https://your-firebase-name.firebaseio.com' , 'authDomain' = > 'your-firebase-name' , 'projectId' = > 'your-firebase-name' , . . ; $ client = new Firebase_PHP ( $ app [ 'config' ] , array ( 'version' = > '1.1' , 'scope' = > array ( 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform' . . . ; $ client -> init ( . ;

When you’re using WHMCS with Cloud Firestore, you get all the benefits of both platforms such as scalability and reliability on top of a powerful web application like WHMCS. There are many benefits on integrating these platforms together such as fast development time and low resource usage. If you want to learn more about these benefits and examples of integration, continue reading our blog!

Benefits of Integration of Cloud Firestore and WHMCS

Cloud Firestore integrates seamlessly with WHMCS because it adds new features and functionalities while at the same time not taking away anything from the user experience. Here are some examples of new features that were added:

API Accessibility. You can now use Cloud Functions to insert or update data in Cloud Firestore which makes it possible to do things like autoresponders and notifications without having to run any code on your servers! Plus, the fact that data is replicated across multiple servers means that you get even faster performance than before.

You can now use Cloud Functions to insert or update data in Cloud Firestore which makes it possible to do things like autoresponders and notifications without having to run any code on your servers! Plus, the fact that data is replicated across multiple servers means that you get even faster performance than before. Security. Cloud Functions add security when writing to cloud firestore by requiring that requests come from HTTPS domains only! This ensures that no one can read data from your database without going through your servers first! Your data is safe with these two security measures in place!

Cloud Functions add security when writing to cloud firestore by requiring that requests come from HTTPS domains only! This ensures that no one can read data from your database without going through your servers first! Your data is safe with these two security measures in place! Offline Functionality. With the help of PouchDB adapters, your app will be able to work offline just like you would expect it to! This makes it easier for your users to access your app even though they’re not connected to the internet which helps them perform tasks quicker! It also saves them from getting bored while they wait for a response!

With the help of PouchDB adapters, your app will be able to work offline just like you would expect it to! This makes it easier for your users to access your app even though they’re not connected to the internet which helps them perform tasks quicker! It also saves them from getting bored while they wait for a response! Development Time. Now adding new features will be much faster since it doesn’t require any server side code! All you need is Javascript/TypeScript! And because data is stored in JSON format, it’s much easier for anyone else to understand what’s going on in the app! All you have to do is describe your data in JSON format, then let Cloud Functions do all the heavy lifting for you! This way, you can quickly iterate over ideas while still meeting deadlines!

Now adding new features will be much faster since it doesn’t require any server side code! All you need is Javascript/TypeScript! And because data is stored in JSON format, it’s much easier for anyone else to understand what’s going on in the app! All you have to do is describe your data in JSON format, then let Cloud Functions do all the heavy lifting for you! This way, you can quickly iterate over ideas while still meeting deadlines! Scalability. Because you get automatic scaling with Cloud Functions, there’s no load balancer required anymore! And this means that there are fewer moving parts which mean less chances for something breaking unexpectedly! More reliability means more peace of mind!

Because you get automatic scaling with Cloud Functions, there’s no load balancer required anymore! And this means that there are fewer moving parts which mean less chances for something breaking unexpectedly! More reliability means more peace of mind! Disk Space. Since there are no longer any log files in Cloud Firestore since everything is logged in Stackdriver Logging instead, there will be more disk space available for storing documents related to your application! Plus there are no more backups either since everything is automatically backed up into Stackdriver Storage. Less disk space needed means less money spent on hardware upgrades! That’s another benefit of using Cloud Firestore with WHMCS!

Conclusion

As you have seen above, there are many benefits of integrating Cloud Firestore with WHMCS. It provides full integration between Javascript/TypeScript which allows developers to write code without worrying about servers or databases. The cloud functions allow developers to write code for creating real-time chat rooms within minutes instead of days or weeks which used to be the case before the integration of these two platforms together. It also provides high availability and easy scaling up or down when needed which makes it easier for developers to meet deadlines without running into problems along the way!

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