Update Configurable Custom Field using updateclientproduct api

[dixonjoseph.k]

Hi,

 

We have to update client products dynamically. For that we developed a script, it should update configurable custom field (which is a hidden filed) with static values. But it is not updating even it shows "Success" message. Please see the code below.

 

<?php
$url = "https://example.com:8081/includes/api.php";
$postfields["username"] ="test";
$postfields["password"] = md5("test");								 
$postfields["action"] = "updateclientproduct";
$postfields["serviceid"] = 229; 
$postfields["pid"] = 152; 
$postfields["autorecalc"] = 1;

$postfields["configoptions"] = base64_encode(serialize(array(537 => array('optionid' => '7613', 'qty' => '1'))));
$postfields["responsetype"] = "xml";

$query_string = "";
foreach ($postfields AS $k=>$v) $query_string .= "$k=".urlencode($v)."&";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $query_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
$xmldata = curl_exec($ch);	

if (curl_error($ch))
{
die("Connection Error: ".curl_errno($ch).' - '.curl_error($ch));
}
else
{
print_r($xmldata);
}
?>

 

The above script is trying to update product data in test licensed whmcs site and it is running from live whmcs directory. When it executes it shows as 'Success', but not updated. Please help.

[mli]

Did you get this issue resolved? I'm trying to add an order with configoptions array, but it does not work. The configoptions parameter has very poor documentation.

 

Thanks

 

Mike

[mli]

Solved. This is what I learned from this issue and hopefully it can help someone else.

When specifying an array in configoptions, the syntax is : array(xxx1 => yyy1, xxx2 => yyy2). 

xxx is the optionid while yyy is the value. In above line, there are two options. Each option pair is separated by comma.

Another important thing is to check your parameters in the API. For example,  API AddOrder has a parameter pid. It must use an integer array. If you just pass it with a single value, the order is added, but the configoptions is totally ignored by the API and without generating a warning message.

This is one area WHMCS can improve upon. APIs should generate more warning messages.

Thanks

Mike