CleverReach PHP SDK

A lightweight PHP SDK for the CleverReach REST API. Built on PSR-18 / PSR-17 interfaces

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Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Installation
• Quick Start
• Features
• Typed Service API
  • Groups
  • Receivers (via group)
  • Receiver lookup
• Raw API Access
• Error Handling
• Advanced: Bring Your Own HTTP Client
• Development
• License

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Requirements

Requirement	Version
PHP	8.2 or higher
Composer	2.x

You also need one PSR-18-compatible HTTP client in your project. Popular choices:

# Guzzle
composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle

# Symfony HTTP Client
composer require symfony/http-client nyholm/psr7

The SDK auto-detects the available client via php-http/discovery – no additional configuration needed.

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Installation

composer require cleverreach/sdk-php

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Quick Start

Get up and running in under a minute:

<?php

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

use CleverReach\SDK\CleverReachClient;

// 1. Create a client with your API token
$client = new CleverReachClient('YOUR_API_TOKEN');

// 2. Fetch all groups using the typed service
$groups = $client->groups()->all();

foreach ($groups as $group) {
    echo $group->name . PHP_EOL;
}

// Alternatively, via raw request (returns arrays):
// $groupsArray = $client->request('GET', 'groups');
// echo $groupsArray[0]['name'];

That's it. The SDK handles authentication, JSON encoding/decoding, and error mapping automatically.

Get your API token in the CleverReach backend under Account → Extras → REST API.

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Features

• Zero boilerplate – one class, one method
• PSR-18 / PSR-17 – works with Guzzle, Symfony HTTP Client, or any compliant client
• Auto-discovery – no manual HTTP client setup required
• Typed service API – key endpoints covered by dedicated service methods with full IDE autocompletion and type-safe enums
• Raw access – every CleverReach REST endpoint reachable with request()

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Typed Service API

The SDK provides typed service classes for the most common endpoints. These are the recommended way to interact with CleverReach – your IDE will autocomplete parameters and the compiler will catch type errors.

Groups

use CleverReach\SDK\CleverReachClient;
use CleverReach\SDK\Enum\GroupSortField;
use CleverReach\SDK\Enum\SortOrder;

$client = new CleverReachClient('YOUR_API_TOKEN');

// Fetch all groups, sorted by last change descending
$groups = $client->groups()->all(
    order: GroupSortField::Changed,
    direction: SortOrder::Descending
);

foreach ($groups as $group) {
    echo $group->id . ': ' . $group->name . PHP_EOL;
}

// Fetch a single group by ID
$group = $client->groups()->get(123);
echo $group->name;

Receivers (via group)

use CleverReach\SDK\Enum\ReceiverSortField;
use CleverReach\SDK\Enum\ReceiverType;
use CleverReach\SDK\Enum\SortOrder;

$client = new CleverReachClient('YOUR_API_TOKEN');

// List active receivers in a group, sorted by email
$receivers = $client->groups()->getReceivers(
    groupId: 123,
    page: 0,
    pageSize: 100,
    type: ReceiverType::Active,
    orderBy: ReceiverSortField::Email,
    orderDirection: SortOrder::Ascending
);

foreach ($receivers as $receiver) {
    echo $receiver->email . PHP_EOL;
}

// Filter by specific emails or IDs
$receivers = $client->groups()->getReceivers(
    groupId: 123,
    emailList: ['jane@example.com', 'bob@example.com']
);

Receiver lookup

// By numeric ID
$receiver = $client->receivers()->get(381940);

// By email address
$receiver = $client->receivers()->get('jane@example.com');

echo $receiver->email . ' – active: ' . ($receiver->active ? 'yes' : 'no');

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Error Handling

All service methods and request() throw exceptions from CleverReach\SDK\Exception\:

Exception	When
AuthenticationException	401 – invalid or expired API token
ValidationException	400 – bad request (invalid payload or parameters)
ResourceNotFoundException	404 – resource does not exist (e.g. invalid group ID)
RateLimitExceededException	429 – too many requests
MissingDependencyException	No PSR-18 HTTP client found at construction time
CleverReachException	Any other API error (4xx/5xx), network failure, or invalid JSON

All specific exceptions extend CleverReachException, so you can catch all errors with a single catch block, or handle specific cases:

use CleverReach\SDK\Exception\AuthenticationException;
use CleverReach\SDK\Exception\RateLimitExceededException;
use CleverReach\SDK\Exception\CleverReachException;

try {
    $groups = $client->groups()->all();
} catch (AuthenticationException $e) {
    // Token invalid – refresh and retry
    echo 'Auth error: ' . $e->getMessage();
} catch (RateLimitExceededException $e) {
    // Too many requests - sleep and retry
    sleep(60);
} catch (CleverReachException $e) {
    // Network error, API error, etc.
    echo 'API error ' . $e->statusCode() . ': ' . $e->getMessage();
    echo 'Raw response body: ' . $e->responseBody();
}

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Raw API Access

All requests go through the single request() method:

request(string $method, string $endpoint, array $query = [], ?array $json = null): array

Parameter	Type	Description
$method	string	HTTP verb: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
$endpoint	string	Path relative to https://rest.cleverreach.com/v3/
$query	array	URL query parameters (null values are ignored)
$json	array|null	Request body, JSON-encoded automatically

Returns array – either an associative array (single object) or a list of associative arrays.

Example: Custom Endpoint

If an endpoint is not yet covered by the typed services, you can easily call it directly:

$response = $client->request(
    'POST',
    'some/custom/endpoint',
    ['query_param' => 'value'],
    ['json_key' => 'json_value']
);

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Full API Reference

The examples above cover the most common use cases. The CleverReach REST API offers many more endpoints – reports, forms, attributes, filters, orders, events, and more.

→ CleverReach REST API Documentation Full endpoint reference, request/response schemas, and interactive Swagger UI.

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Advanced: Bring Your Own HTTP Client

By default the SDK uses php-http/discovery to find a PSR-18 client automatically. You can inject your own implementations – ideal for DI containers or testing:

use CleverReach\SDK\CleverReachClient;

$client = new CleverReachClient(
    apiToken:        'YOUR_API_TOKEN',
    baseUri:         'https://rest.cleverreach.com/v3/', // optional, this is the default
    httpClient:      $myPsr18Client,
    requestFactory:  $myPsr17RequestFactory,
    streamFactory:   $myPsr17StreamFactory,
);

Example: Guzzle with explicit setup

use GuzzleHttp\Client as GuzzleClient;
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\HttpFactory;
use CleverReach\SDK\CleverReachClient;

$factory = new HttpFactory();

$client = new CleverReachClient(
    apiToken:       'YOUR_API_TOKEN',
    httpClient:     new GuzzleClient(),
    requestFactory: $factory,
    streamFactory:  $factory,
);

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Development

# Install dependencies
composer install

# Syntax check
composer lint

# Code style check
composer cs-check

# Auto-fix code style
composer cs-fix

# Run test suite
composer test

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.