The Kite Connect API PHP client - v3

The Official PHP client for communicating with the Kite Connect API.

Note: For PHP version < 8.0. You can refer to our previous version.
Kite Connect is a set of REST-like APIs that expose many capabilities required to build a complete investment and trading platform. Execute orders in real time, manage user portfolio and more, with the simple HTTP API collection.

Zerodha Technology (c) 2021. Licensed under the MIT License.

Documentation

• PHP client documentation
• Kite Connect HTTP API documentation

Installing

Requirements

1. Install PHP version 8.0 or higher.
2. Install Composer, which is used to install PHP packages.

You can install the package via composer:

composer require zerodha/phpkiteconnect

Note: You can refer to our previous version here for PHP version < 8.0.

Usage

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

    use KiteConnect\KiteConnect;

    // Initialise.
    $kite = new KiteConnect("your_api_key");

    // Assuming you have obtained the `request_token`
    // after the auth flow redirect by redirecting the
    // user to $kite->login_url()
    try {
        $user = $kite->generateSession("request_token_obtained", "your_api_secret");
        echo "Authentication successful. \n";
        print_r($user);
        $kite->setAccessToken($user->access_token);
    } catch(Exception $e) {
        echo "Authentication failed: ".$e->getMessage();
        throw $e;
    }

    echo $user->user_id." has logged in";

    // Get the list of positions.
    echo "Positions: \n";
    print_r($kite->getPositions());

    // Place order.
    $order = $kite->placeOrder("regular", [
        "tradingsymbol" => "INFY",
        "exchange" => "NSE",
        "quantity" => 1,
        "transaction_type" => "BUY",
        "order_type" => "MARKET",
        "product" => "NRML"
    ]);

    echo "Order id is ".$order->order_id;
?>

Examples

Check examples folder for more examples.

Refer to the PHP client documentation for the complete list of supported methods.

Run unit tests

phpunit tests/KiteConnectTest.php

Generate documentation

$ apt-get install wget
$ wget https://phpdoc.org/phpDocumentor.phar
$ chmod +x phpDocumentor.phar
$ ./phpDocumentor.phar run -d ./src/ -t ./doc/

Changelog

Check CHANGELOG.md