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+#!/usr/bin/php -q
+<?php
+#
+# Configuration: Enter the url and key. That is it.
+#  url => URL to api/task/cron e.g #  http://yourdomain.com/support/api/tickets.json
+#  key => API's Key (see admin panel on how to generate a key)
+#
+
+$config = array(
+        'url'=>'http://domain.com/api/tickets.json',
+        'key'=>'<api key>'
+        );
+
+# Fill in the data for the new ticket, this will likely come from $_POST.
+
+$data = array(
+    'name'      =>      'John Doe',
+    'email'     =>      'mailbox@host.com',
+    'subject'   =>      'Test API message',
+    'message'   =>      'This is a test of the osTicket API',
+    'ip'        =>      $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],
+    'attachments' => array(),
+);
+
+/* 
+ * Add in attachments here if necessary
+
+$data['attachments'][] =
+array('filename.pdf' =>
+        'data:image/png;base64,' .
+            base64_encode(file_get_contents('/path/to/filename.pdf')));
+ */
+
+#pre-checks
+function_exists('curl_version') or die('CURL support required');
+function_exists('json_encode') or die('JSON support required');
+
+#set timeout
+set_time_limit(30);
+
+#curl post
+$ch = curl_init();
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $config['url']);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'osTicket API Client v1.7');
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Expect:', 'X-API-Key: '.$config['key']));
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, FALSE);
+curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
+$result=curl_exec($ch);
+$code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+curl_close($ch);
+
+if ($code != 201)
+    die('Unable to create ticket: '.$result);
+
+$ticket_id = (int) $result;
+
+# Continue onward here if necessary. $ticket_id has the ID number of the
+# newly-created ticket
+
+?>