Prerequisites
- PHP 7.4 or higher
- Composer (optional)
- cURL extension enabled
- SunLicense API credentials
Integration steps
1. Create a license validator class
2. Implementation example
3. Using a framework (Laravel example)
Best practices
- Error handling
- Implement proper try-catch blocks
- Log validation failures
- Handle errors gracefully
- Caching
- Cache validation results
- Implement proper cache invalidation
- Handle offline scenarios
- Security
- Store the license key in environment variables
- Implement proper error logging
- Secure API communication
Common issues and solutions
- cURL errors
- Verify the cURL installation
- Check SSL certificates
- Confirm the API endpoint is accessible
- Validation failures
- Check license key validity
- Verify the product ID
- Monitor API response codes