diff --git a/application/config/config.development.php b/application/config/config.development.php
index 2a61521..db54e9b 100644
--- a/application/config/config.development.php
+++ b/application/config/config.development.php
@@ -6,4 +6,7 @@ $arr["host"] = "10.10.10.23";
 $arr["name"] = "wrenchboard";
 $arr["user"] = "wrenchboard";
 $arr["pass"] = "wrenchboard";
-$arr["port"] = 5432;
\ No newline at end of file
+$arr["port"] = 5432;
+
+
+define('LEGACY_BACKEND_ENDPOINT','http://backend.wrenchboard.api.test');
diff --git a/application/config/config.production.php b/application/config/config.production.php
index 295b978..f1b057b 100644
--- a/application/config/config.production.php
+++ b/application/config/config.production.php
@@ -6,4 +6,6 @@ $arr["host"] = "172.31.4.60";
 $arr["name"] = "wrenchboard";
 $arr["user"] = "wrenchboard";
 $arr["pass"] = "wrenchboard";
-$arr["port"] = 5432;
\ No newline at end of file
+$arr["port"] = 5432;
+
+define('LEGACY_BACKEND_ENDPOINT','backend.wrenchboard.api.live');
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backend.php b/backend.php
index 0618fcc..a190f3c 100644
--- a/backend.php
+++ b/backend.php
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?
+<?php
 /*
 if (!array_key_exists('wrenchboard', $GLOBALS)) {
 	$USER = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];
@@ -11,13 +11,38 @@ if (!array_key_exists('wrenchboard', $GLOBALS)) {
 	$wrenchboard = new $wrenchboard_class();
 }
 */
+include('application/config/config.'.$_SERVER['CI_ENV'].'.php');
+
 class wrenchboard_class {
 
 
 	public function wrenchboard_api(array $in, array $out){
 		$arr = array();
 
-		return $arr;
+			$content = json_encode($in);
+
+			$url = LEGACY_BACKEND_ENDPOINT."/apigate";
+			$curl = curl_init($url);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-type" => "application/json"));
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
+			curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content);
+
+			$json_response = curl_exec($curl);
+
+			$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
+
+			if ($status != 200) {
+			echo ("Error: call to URL $url failed with status $status, response $json_response, curl_error " . curl_error($curl) . ", curl_errno " . curl_errno($curl));
+			}
+
+			curl_close($curl);
+
+			$out = $response = json_decode($json_response, true);
+
+		return $response;
 	}
 
 	public function cfgReadChar($whatSetting){