PostNL REST/SOAP API PHP Bindings

About

This PHP library for both PostNL's REST and SOAP API aims to provide a simple way to connect your application with PostNL. By abstracting away needless complexity when processing shipment information and increased fault-tolerance, you can get up and running with PostNL in minutes.
At the lower level this library uses asynchronous communication and payload splitting for improved performance.

Important notice

The PHP bindings can connect to both PostNL's SOAP and REST API.

Status

Service	Status REST	Status SOAP	Version
Addresses
Adrescheck Nationaal	N/A	N/A	N/A
Adrescheck Basis Nationaal	N/A	N/A	N/A
Adrescheck Internationaal	N/A	N/A	N/A
Geo Adrescheck Nationaal	N/A	N/A	N/A
Creditworthiness & Business information
Bedrijfscheck Nationaal	N/A	N/A	N/A
Kredietcheck Zakelijk	N/A	N/A	N/A
Send & Track
Barcode webservice	✓	✓	1.1
Labelling webservice	✓	✓	2.2
Confirming webservice	✓	✓	2.0
Shippingstatus webservice	✓	✓	2.0
Shipping webservice	✓	✓*	2.0
Delivery Options
Deliverydate webservice	✓	✓	2.2
Location webservice	✓	✓	2.1
Timeframe webservice	✓	✓	2.1
Checkout webservice	Planned	Planned*	1.0
Mail
Bulkmail webservice	N/A	N/A	N/A

* SOAP version not available. Falls back on the REST API.

Instructions

• Clone this repo
• Run composer install (Don't have composer? Visit https://getcomposer.org/)
• Optionally run composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle to use Guzzle instead of cURL directly
• You're good to go! A small example can be found in this README. Check out the full documentation for a quick start guide.

Documentation

Example

Allow a user to download a label using the default REST API

<?php

use Firstred\PostNL\PostNL;
use Firstred\PostNL\Entity\Customer;
use Firstred\PostNL\Entity\Address;
use Firstred\PostNL\Entity\Shipment;
use Firstred\PostNL\Entity\Dimension;

require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

$customer = Customer::create([
    'CollectionLocation' => '123456',
    'CustomerCode'       => 'DEVC',
    'CustomerNumber'     => '11223344',
    'ContactPerson'      => 'Peter',
    'Address'            => Address::create([
        'AddressType' => '02',
        'City'        => 'Hoofddorp',
        'CompanyName' => 'PostNL',
        'Countrycode' => 'NL',
        'HouseNr'     => '42',
        'Street'      => 'Siriusdreef',
        'Zipcode'     => '2132WT',
    ]),
    'Email'              => 'info@voorbeeld.nl',
    'Name'               => 'Michael',
]);

$apikey = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE';
$sandbox = false;

$postnl = new PostNL($customer, $apikey, $sandbox);

$barcode = $postnl->generateBarcodeByCountryCode('NL');

$shipment = Shipment::create([
    'Addresses'           => [
        Address::create([
            'AddressType' => '01',
            'City'        => 'Utrecht',
            'Countrycode' => 'NL',
            'FirstName'   => 'Peter',
            'HouseNr'     => '9',
            'HouseNrExt'  => 'a bis',
            'Name'        => 'de Ruijter',
            'Street'      => 'Bilderdijkstraat',
            'Zipcode'     => '3521VA',
        ]),
    ],
    'Barcode'             => $barcode,
    'Dimension'           => new Dimension(/* weight */ '2000'),
    'ProductCodeDelivery' => '3085',
]);

header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="label.pdf"');
echo base64_decode($postnl->generateLabel(
    /* The actual shipment */ $shipment, 
    /* The output format */ 'GraphicFile|PDF',
    /* Immediately confirm the shipment */ true
)
    ->getResponseShipments()[0]
    ->getLabels()[0]
    ->getContent()
);
exit;

Full documentation

The full documentation can be found on this page: https://postnl-php.readthedocs.io/

Building the documentation

The documentation is automatically built and hosted on readthedocs.io. You can build a local HTML copy by installing Sphinx and running

pip install -r docs/requirements.txt

to install the requirements, followed by

sphinx-build -b html docs builddir

to build the HTML output in the directory builddir.

License

This library has been licensed with the MIT license.

Full license text

The MIT License (MIT). Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Michael Dekker (https://github.com/firstred)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.