NZ Post Address Checker API client

This API client can help you to operate with NZ Post Address Checker API. You can use any PSR-16 Simple Cache with it to save your money on look ups number.

Installation

composer require digitalpianism/nzpost-client

Examples

The Address Checker API allows you to autocomplete and check New Zealand addresses and postcodes. It can be used within web forms or mobile apps. It’s backed by New Zealand Post’s National Postal Address Database (NPAD).

Firstly you have to get registered account https://www.nzpost.co.nz/business/developer-centre#data And create new application there to get API credentials.

Auth and get the client instance

use DigitalPianism\NzPostClient\NzPostClient;

$clientID = 'NZPOST_CLIENT_ID';
$secret = 'NZPOST_CLIENT_SECRET';

$Client = new NzPostClient($clientID, $secret);

Auth and get the client instance with PSR-16 Simple Cache

use Symfony\Component\Cache\Simple\FilesystemCache;
use DigitalPianism\NzPostClient\NzPostClient;

$cache = new FilesystemCache();
$ttl = 31536000; // One year cache TTL

$clientID = 'NZPOST_CLIENT_ID';
$secret = 'NZPOST_CLIENT_SECRET';

$Client = new NzPostClient($clientID, $secret, $cache);
$Client->setTTL($ttl);

Get suggested addresses

$query = '1 Queen street';
$suggestedAddresses = $Client->suggest($query);

Find an address

$addressLines = [
    '1 Queen street',
    'CBD',
    'Auckland'
 ];
 $addresses = $Client->find($addressLines);

Get address details by DPID

Making calls to the address details services requires passing a DPID. This can be found by calling either the find or suggest resources which return matches including DPID's.

$dpid='3111226';
$addressDetails = $Client->details($dpid);

The suggest partial addresses.

The suggest partial addresses service takes a partial address query and turns a list of partial address matches.

$query = 'queen';
$suggestedAddresses = $Client->suggestPartial($query);

The partial address details service.

The partial address details service takes a partial's unique_id and returns detailed information about the matching partial address.

$uniqId = 82868;
$response = $Client->partialDetails($uniqId);