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<?php

// specify the REST web service to interact with
$url = 'localhost/~jmertic/sugarcrm/service/v4_1/rest.php';

// Open a SugarHttpClient session for making the call
$client = new SugarHttpClient;

// Set the POST arguments to pass to the Sugar server
$parameters = array(
    'user_auth' => array(
        'user_name' => 'username',
        'password' => md5('password'),
        ),
    );
$json = json_encode($parameters);
$postArgs = array(
    'method' => 'login',
    'input_type' => 'JSON',
    'response_type' => 'JSON',
    'rest_data' => $json,
    );
$postArgs = http_build_query($postArgs);

// Make the REST call, returning the result
$response = $client->callRest($url, $postArgs);
if ( $response === false ) {
    die("Request failed.\n");
}

// Convert the result from JSON format to a PHP array
$result = json_decode($response);
if ( !is_object($result) ) {
    die("Error handling result.\n");
}
if ( !isset($result->id) ) {
    die("Error: {$result->name} - {$result->description}\n.");
}

// Get the session id
$sessionId = $result->id;