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# Intializing the client

You can initialize the client in different ways to start communicating with the Shopify API.

```php
use Pactode\Shopify\Shopify;

$shopify = new Shopify(
    env('SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN'),
    env('SHOPIFY_DOMAIN'),
    env('SHOPIFY_API_VERSION')
);
```

### **Resolve from the service container**

Using class:

```php
use Pactode\Shopify\Shopify;

$shopify = app(Shopify::class);
```

Using alias:

```php
$shopify = app('shopify');
```

### **Resolve using the factory**

```php
$shopify = \Pactode\Shopify\Factory::fromConfig();
```

### **Resolve using dependency injection**

You may also inject the Shopify class into a method of a Controller:

```php
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Pactode\Shopify\Shopify;

class ProductController{
    public function index(Request $request, Shopify $shopify)
    {
        // do something here    
    }
}
```

*By default it will look for credentials in your config, when resolving the client.*


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