Creating or Updating Multiple Records

Overview

A PHP example demonstrating how to create or update multiple contacts with the set_entries method using cURL and the v4_1 REST API.

Example

<?php

    $url = "http://{site_url}/service/v4_1/rest.php";
    $username = "admin";
    $password = "password";

    //function to make cURL request
    function call($method, $parameters, $url)
    {
        ob_start();
        $curl_request = curl_init();

        curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0);
        curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);

        $jsonEncodedData = json_encode($parameters);

        $post = array(
             "method" => $method,
             "input_type" => "JSON",
             "response_type" => "JSON",
             "rest_data" => $jsonEncodedData
        );

        curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
        $result = curl_exec($curl_request);
        curl_close($curl_request);

        $result = explode("\r\n\r\n", $result, 2);
        $response = json_decode($result[1]);
        ob_end_flush();

        return $response;
    }

    //login -------------------------------------------- 

    $login_parameters = array(
         "user_auth" => array(
              "user_name" => $username,
              "password" => md5($password),
              "version" => "1"
         ),
         "application_name" => "RestTest",
         "name_value_list" => array(),
    );

    $login_result = call("login", $login_parameters, $url);

    /*
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($login_result);
    echo "</pre>";
    */

    //get session id
    $session_id = $login_result->id;

    //create contacts ------------------------------------ 

    $set_entries_parameters = array(
         //session id
         "session" => $session_id,

         //The name of the module from which to retrieve records.
         "module_name" => "Contacts",

         //Record attributes
         "name_value_list" => array(
             array(
                //to update a record, you will nee to pass in a record id as commented below
                //array("name" => "id", "value" => "912e58c0-73e9-9cb6-c84e-4ff34d62620e"),
                array("name" => "first_name", "value" => "John"),
                array("name" => "last_name", "value" => "Smith"),
             ),
             array(
                //to update a record, you will nee to pass in a record id as commented below
                //array("name" => "id", "value" => "99d6ddfd-7d52-d45b-eba8-4ff34d684964"),
                array("name" => "first_name", "value" => "Jane"),
                array("name" => "last_name", "value" => "Doe"),
             ),
         ),
    );

    $set_entries_result = call("set_entries", $set_entries_parameters, $url);

    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($set_entries_result);
    echo "</pre>";

?>

Result

stdClass Object
(
    [ids] => Array
        (
            [0] => 912e58c0-73e9-9cb6-c84e-4ff34d62620e
            [1] => 99d6ddfd-7d52-d45b-eba8-4ff34d684964
        )

)