After a license has been been activated, it can also be deactivated remotely. Usually the reason to deactivate a license is to permit a license to be activated on an additional site once the activation limit has been reached.
Before reading this documentation, please read through the instructions for how to activate a license.
The deactivation process is nearly identical to the activation process. We perform a remote request and send the details of the license key we are deactivating. The remote request is done like so:
$api_params = array(
'wpls_action' => 'deactivate',
'license' => $license,
'code' => urlencode( WPLS_SAMPLE_ITEM_CODE ), // the CODE of our product in WPLS
'url' => home_url(),
'host' => isset($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR']) ? $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] : $_SERVER['LOCAL_ADDR']
);
// Call the custom API.
$response = wp_remote_get( add_query_arg( $api_params, WPLS_SAMPLE_STORE_URL ), array( 'timeout' => 15, 'sslverify' => false ) );
The $response var will be a json object that tells us whether the deactivation request was successful or not. If it is successful, the response will be:
{
"license_status": "deactivated",
"item_name": "WPLS Product name",
"license_type": "BASIC",
"expires": "2015-01-01 00:00:00",
"payment_id": 'inv-df4396cc2dea8b50125007a909b1292e',
"customer_name": "John Doe",
"customer_email": "[email protected]"
}
If the license fails to be deactivated, the response will be:
{
"license_status": "invalid",
"item_name": "WPLS Product name",
"license_type": "BASIC",
"expires": "2015-01-01 00:00:00",
"payment_id": 'inv-df4396cc2dea8b50125007a909b1292e',
"customer_name": "John Doe",
"customer_email": "[email protected]"
}
Once a license has been successfully deactivated, the Counter column in Licensing System > License Dashboard will be decremented and an entry will be recorded in the log so that admins can see where a license was deactivated from.
