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+<?php
+
+/*
+USAGE: 
+ Example call with account path component - test Authentication with Finale Inventory account via api
+ Replace these variables with appropriate values for your company and user accounts
+ Replace youraccountname below with your fianle inventory account name
+ Your account name is in between the slashes on your Finale Inventory log in URL.
+ For example your web browser URL for your account is https://app.finaleinventory.com/accountname/ enter the account name in lower case with no spaces 
+ Replace finaleusername below with your username, the same one you log into your Finale Inventory account on the web
+ Replace password below with your password.
+ IMPORTANT NOTE: To avoid authentication issues, make sure your password does not contain special characters
+*/
+$host = "https://app.finaleinventory.com";
+$authPath = "/youraccountname/api/auth";
+$username = "finaleusername"; 
+$password = "password";
+
+$auth = finale_auth($host, $authPath, $username, $password);
+
+echo "Authenticated successfully username=".$auth["auth_response"]->name."\n";
+
+function finale_auth($host, $path, $username, $password) {
+
+    // Create curl handle with options used for all requests.  Finale API authentication is cookie based, so cookies need to be enabled
+    $ch = curl_init();
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR,"");
+    
+    
+    // Login to Finale
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $host.$path);  
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,json_encode( array( "username" => $username, "password" => $password)));
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
+    
+    $response = curl_exec($ch);
+    
+    $status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+    if ($status_code != 200) exit("FAIL: authentication error statusCode=$status_code\n");
+  
+    $header_size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
+    $header = substr($response, 0, $header_size);
+    $body = substr($response, $header_size);
+  
+    // Pull out all JSESSIONID cookie headers
+    preg_match_all('|Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=(.*);|U', $header, $cookies);    
+  
+    // Don't return headers in future http requests to keep them simple (reuse to curl handle for automatic cookie handling)
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
+    
+    return array( "curl_handle" => $ch, "auth_response" => json_decode($body), "host" => $host, "session_secret" => array_pop($cookies[1]) );
+}
+
+// Example program just tests authentication
+//
+?>