Exporting a report as a PDF via Web Services

gistfile1.php

<?php

// specify the REST web service to interact with
$url = '<<your sugar instance URL>>/service/v4_1/rest.php';

// And admin username/password
$username = '<<username>>';
$password = '<<password>>';

// And the report_id you wish to export
$report_id = '<<report id>>';

// And the filename to create
$pdf_filename = '/path/to/export/report.pdf';

// Open a curl session for making the call
$curl = curl_init($url);

// Tell curl to use HTTP POST
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);

// Tell curl not to return headers, but do return the response
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

// 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' => $json,
    );
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postArgs);

// Make the REST call, returning the result
$response = curl_exec($curl);

// 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;

// Export the given report
$parameters = array(
    'session' => $sessionId,
    'report_id' => $report_id,
    );
$json = json_encode($parameters);
$postArgs = array(
    'method' => 'get_report_pdf',
    'input_type' => 'JSON',
    'response_type' => 'JSON',
    'rest_data' => $json,
    );
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postArgs);

// Make the REST call, returning the result
$response = curl_exec($curl);

// Convert the result from JSON format to a PHP array
$result = json_decode($response);

file_put_contents($pdf_filename, base64_decode($result->file_contents));

echo "PDF saved to $pdf_filename\n";