Creating account with billing and shipping addresse via SOAP api?

[SugarRookie]

Hello,

I'm using the Sugar SOAP api to create new accounts remotely via a code block something like this

	require_once('lib/nusoap.php'); 

	$client = new soapclient('http://myurl.com/soap.php?wsdl',true);  

	$auth_array = array( 
		'user_auth' => array (
			  'user_name' => 'my-name',
			  'password'  => md5('my-password'),
			  'version' => '5.2.0',
			)
		); 

   $login_results = $client->call('login',$auth_array);
	$session_id = $login_results['id'];
	echo "Login Result: ".$session_id;

	$create_user_data = array(
	  'user_name' => 'my-name',
	  'password'  => md5('my-password'),
	  'name'  => 'Test name '.rand(),
	  'phone'  => '555-555-4321',
	  'website'  => 'www.testing.com',
		);


	echo "Creating account: \n";
	echo $client->call('create_account', $create_user_data )."\n"; 

This works fine, but I need to add in a shipping and a billing address for each new account.

So is there a way I can do something like this?

	$create_user_data = array(
	  'user_name' => 'my-name',
	  'password'  => md5('my-password'),
	  'name'  => 'Test name '.rand(),
	  'phone'  => '555-555-4321',
	  'website'  => 'www.testing.com',
	  'billing_address' => arrray( 
			  'address_1' => '101 pine street',
			  'address_2' => 'Apt 3',
			  'city'      => 'My town',
			  'state'     => 'My state',
			  'zip'       => 'My Zip',
			)
	  'shipping_address' => arrray( 
			  'address_1' => '101 elm street',
			  'address_2' => 'Apt 3',
			  'city'      => 'My town',
			  'state'     => 'My state',
			  'zip'       => 'My Zip',
			)
		);

Thanks!!!

[Angel]

Use the set_entry() method instead of create_account().

set_entry() will allow you to populate a defined list of fields beyond those possible with create_account.

[SugarRookie]

Thanks for your response. I just have some questions about the specifics of your suggestion.

1) How am I supposed to format the array to contain the address data? In my original post, I just guessed what the formatting should be. I.e.

	$create_user_data = array(
	  'user_name' => 'my-name',
	  'password'  => md5('my-password'),
	  'name'  => 'Test name '.rand(),
	  'phone'  => '555-555-4321',
	  'website'  => 'www.testing.com',
	  'billing_address' => arrray( 
			  'address_1' => '101 pine street',
			  'address_2' => 'Apt 3',
			  'city'      => 'My town',
			  'state'     => 'My state',
			  'zip'       => 'My Zip',

The 'billing_address' block is just my best guess on the data exchange format. I browsed the soap.php?wsdl page and didnt see anything in the entire document about how to format the data for billing and or shipping address data.

2) Just for clarification, if I correct the formatted data in the aforementioned array ( $create__user_array ), can I simply just modify the call from 'create_account' to 'set_entry' or do I have to make multiple calls? I.e. 'create_account' to create the account followed by 'set_entry'' to add the address data?

Thanks for your help!

[Angel]

I don't believe it will work if you pass the address as an array as I believe it always expects references to individual fields.

Were you to change the $create_user_data array to reference single fields, like you did in the first part for phone, name, etc., that should work.

Add 'id' => '' to the array as well. That will tell Sugar to create a new record (blank ID value). Also, you can omit the user/pass in that array as set_entry uses a session ID instead.

After you've modified the array, you can then call set_entry by providing the following parameters:

session_id, module_name, $name_value_list

I do most of my API work through .NET, but I believe it would be something like this in PHP:

$client->call('set_entry', $session_id, 'Accounts', $create_user_data)

Lastly, regarding your point about multiple calls, set_entry is advantageous in that regard because it does not require more than one call to both create the record and populate the extra fields.