diff --git a/doc/example/FroxlorAPI.php b/doc/example/FroxlorAPI.php
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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * This file is part of the Froxlor project.
+ * Copyright (c) 2018 the Froxlor Team (see authors).
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the COPYING
+ * file that was distributed with this source code. You can also view the
+ * COPYING file online at http://files.froxlor.org/misc/COPYING.txt
+ *
+ * @copyright  (c) the authors
+ * @author     Froxlor team <team@froxlor.org> (2018-)
+ * @license    GPLv2 http://files.froxlor.org/misc/COPYING.txt
+ * @package    API-example
+ * @since      0.10.0
+ *
+ */
+class FroxlorAPI
+{
+
+	/**
+	 * URL to api.php of your froxlor installation
+	 *
+	 * @var string
+	 */
+	private $host = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * your api-key
+	 *
+	 * @var string
+	 */
+	private $api_key = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * your api-secret
+	 *
+	 * @var string
+	 */
+	private $api_secret = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * last cURL error message
+	 *
+	 * @var string
+	 */
+	private $last_error = "";
+
+	/**
+	 * last response header received
+	 *
+	 * @var array
+	 */
+	private $last_header = array();
+
+	/**
+	 * last response data received
+	 *
+	 * @var array
+	 */
+	private $last_body = array();
+
+	/**
+	 * create FroxlorAPI object
+	 *
+	 * @param string $host
+	 *        	URL to api.php of your froxlor installation
+	 * @param string $api_key
+	 *        	your api-key
+	 * @param string $api_secret
+	 *        	your api-secret
+	 *
+	 * @return FroxlorAPI
+	 */
+	public function __construct(string $host, string $api_key, string $api_secret)
+	{
+		$this->host = $host;
+		$this->api_key = $api_key;
+		$this->api_secret = $api_secret;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * send request to froxlor api
+	 *
+	 * @param string $command
+	 * @param array $params
+	 *
+	 * @return FroxlorAPI
+	 */
+	public function request(string $command, array $params = array()): FroxlorAPI
+	{
+		// build request array
+		$request = [
+			'header' => [
+				'apikey' => $this->api_key,
+				'secret' => $this->api_secret
+			],
+			'body' => [
+				'command' => $command
+			]
+		];
+
+		// add parameter to request-body if any
+		if (! empty($params)) {
+			$request['body']['params'] = $params;
+		}
+
+		// reset last data
+		$this->last_header = array();
+		$this->last_body = array();
+
+		// send actual request
+		$response = $this->requestCurl(json_encode($request));
+
+		// decode response
+		$resp = json_decode($response[1], true);
+		// set body to data-part of response
+		$this->last_body = $resp['data'];
+		// set header of response
+		$this->last_header = [
+			'status' => $resp['status'],
+			'status_message' => $resp['status_message']
+		];
+
+		// check for error in api response
+		if (isset($this->last_header['status']) && $this->last_header['status'] >= 400) {
+			// set last-error message
+			$this->last_error .= "[" . $this->last_header['status'] . "] " . $this->last_header['status_message'];
+		}
+
+		return $this;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * returns last response header
+	 *
+	 * @return array status|status_message
+	 */
+	public function getLastHeader(): array
+	{
+		return $this->last_header;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * returns last response data
+	 *
+	 * @return array
+	 */
+	public function getLastResponse(): array
+	{
+		return $this->last_body;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * return last known error message
+	 *
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public function getLastError(): string
+	{
+		return $this->last_error;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * send cURL request to api
+	 *
+	 * @param string $data
+	 *        	json array
+	 *        	
+	 * @return array header|body
+	 */
+	private function requestCurl(string $data): array
+	{
+		// reset last error message
+		$this->last_error = "";
+
+		$ch = curl_init($this->host);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
+			'Content-type: application/json'
+		));
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
+		$verbose = fopen('php://temp', 'w+');
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR, $verbose);
+
+		if (! $data = curl_exec($ch)) {
+			$this->last_error = 'Curl execution error: ' . curl_error($ch) . "\n";
+			rewind($verbose);
+			$verboseLog = stream_get_contents($verbose);
+			$this->last_error .= "Verbose information: " . htmlspecialchars($verboseLog) . "\n";
+		}
+
+		$header_size = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);
+		$header = substr($data, 0, $header_size);
+		$body = substr($data, $header_size);
+
+		curl_close($ch);
+		return array(
+			$header,
+			$body
+		);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/doc/example/list_functions.php b/doc/example/list_functions.php
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+<?php
+
+// include FroxlorAPI helper class
+require __DIR__ . '/FroxlorAPI.php';
+
+// create object of FroxlorAPI with URL, apikey and apisecret
+$fapi = new FroxlorAPI('https://froxlor.your-host.tld/api.php', 'your-api-key', 'your-api-secret');
+
+// send request
+$fapi->request('Froxlor.listFunctions');
+
+// check for error
+if (! empty($fapi->getLastError())) {
+	echo "Error: " . $fapi->getLastError();
+	exit();
+}
+
+// get response of request
+$request = $fapi->getLastResponse();
+
+// view response data
+var_dump($request);