Shopify private app – get started

The documentation of shopify APIs is pretty good. Unfortunately I failed miserably to authenticate – and this is because from my point of view the naming of the PHP client is wrong – at least for private apps.

Big shout out to Fatih Samur whos blog entry helped me a lot!

This is the app info for private apps in the backend.

Context::initialize(
    $_ENV['SHOPIFY_API_KEY'],
    $_ENV['SHOPIFY_API_SECRET'],
    $_ENV['SHOPIFY_APP_SCOPES'],
    $_ENV['SHOPIFY_APP_HOST_NAME'],
    new FileSessionStorage('/tmp/php_sessions'),
    '2021-04',
    true,
    false,
);

And this is the code example of the shopify php client.

$_ENV['SHOPIFY_API_KEY'], // => API-Schlüssel (the value in the middle)
$_ENV['SHOPIFY_API_SECRET'], // => TOKEN(!!) NOT THE SECRET!
$_ENV['SHOPIFY_APP_SCOPES'], // => Whatever you defined, comma separated.
$_ENV['SHOPIFY_APP_HOST_NAME'], // => your host without https:// and / as suffix.

Hope that helps someone in the future.