Soap - how?

[otm187]

Hi everybody,
I'm encoutering some problems in implementing a soap interface between my Joomla and my sugarcrm.
Actually I don't know where to start so I'm searching for basic tutorial plus some documentations. What I found is the official documentation but that didn't help me a lot.

What I want to do is retrieve my contacts and / or my leads having only an email. I currently using a sugarcrm 5.0g and plan to upgrade to 5.1 soon.

Would you be kind enought to point me a link or a practical example I can use?
thanks in advance!

[andopes]

Hi otm187

Edit the file examples/SoapTest.php in the sugar folder.
It contains some examples of implementation of soap.
You can also access the address: http://address_of_your_sugar/soap.php

It will display all available SOAP methods.
Also you can find documentation in the sugar wiki.

Cheers

[otm187]

Thanks a lot, it helps a lot to understand soap, but i still have a problem.
I'm trying to see if an email is in the database by soap but i don't have any result...
I found the 'contact_by_email' function but it has been depreciated for my version of sugar.
So i explain what i want to do, i need to find if an email adress already exist and if exist i will update the contact.
If not i create it (this part is ok an i think i know how to update). So my problem is to compare and to have the id of contact to update.

Any idea?

[andopes]

Hi otm187

There are some threads discussing how to check an email through soap.
Make a search and you will find several posts.

Best regards

[otm187]

Hi andopes, thanks for respond quickly.
I made made many search before to post the second message, and i saw many threads about the email search, but no one helps me, i thinks it's because it's not really the same function i need.

the i found was to use those function : get_entry_list, get_relationships, get_entry.
But it doesn't help as i want... Maybe it's because i don't have the good query...
If it's just about query, can someone help to find i an email adress already exist in sugar? Or if it's that, do you know another function.

I'm sorry to insist, but i really seach on internet, and in this forum and i didn't find how to proceed...

Thanks to care about my problem.

[kuske]

Which version do you use?

[eggsurplus]

To turn the portal soap functions on run this query against your database:

insert into config(category,name,value) values('portal','on','1')