Q: authenticate several clients at once?

[white-rabbit07]

Hi.
Is it possible to authenticate several clients at once?
It would be nice to make more than one entry with a comment in auth_guest_basic.php
Thanks for a hint.

[malle-pietje]

There isn't a specific function for that but you can simply implement such a feature with your own PHP code by cycling through an array of MAC address and requesting an authorization for of them.

Like with the other question; there are a lot of good resources to get you started with some basic PHP programming skills, I'm afraid I can't help you out with that.

[white-rabbit07]

Hi.
Thanks ... I found a solution and tried it like this ... works for me:

This is my version of "auth_guest_basic.php" now:

<?php
/**
 * PHP API usage example
 *
 * contributed by: Art of WiFi
 * description:    example PHP script to perform a basic auth of a guest device
 */

/**
 * using the composer autoloader
 */
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

/**
 * include the config file (place your credentials etc. there if not already present)
 * see the config.template.php file for an example
 */
require_once 'config.php';

/**
 * the MAC address of the Access Point the guest is currently connected to, enter null (without quotes)
 * if not known or unavailable
 *
 * NOTE:
 * although the AP MAC address is not a required parameter for the authorize_guest() function,
 * adding this parameter will speed up the initial authorization process
   $ap_mac = null;
 */
$ap_mac = 'AP mac here';

/**
 * the duration to authorize the device for in minutes
 */
$duration = 2;

/**
 * The site to authorize the device with
 */
$site_id = 'my-site-here';

/**
 * the MAC address of the device to authorize
   use a textfile called "macs.txt" and put all devices into it like this:
   aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff # comment 1
   AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF # comment 2
   and so on...
 */

if ($file = fopen("macs.txt", "r")) {
    while(!feof($file)) {
        $line = fgets($file);
        # read file "macs.txt" line by line and take only the first 17 characters  (length of the MAC-address):
            $mac = substr($line,0,17);
            echo "authenticate $mac:\r\n";

                /**
                 * initialize the UniFi API connection class and log in to the controller
                 */
                $unifi_connection = new UniFi_API\Client($controlleruser, $controllerpassword, $controllerurl, $site_id, $controllerversion);
                $set_debug_mode   = $unifi_connection->set_debug($debug);
                $loginresults     = $unifi_connection->login();

                /**
                 * then we authorize the device for the requested duration
                 */
                $auth_result = $unifi_connection->authorize_guest($mac, $duration, null, null, null, $ap_mac);

                /**
                 * provide feedback in json format
                 */
                echo json_encode($auth_result, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
                echo "\r\n";

    }
    fclose($file);
}