php REST POST Help

[chetwyn]

Hi guys. I'm new to php and struggleing with the REST POST for some reason....

 

I need to insert a contact into this accouting system http://help.saasu.com/api/#toc-http-post  search for Example: Insert Contact.

 

the data strcutre looks like:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<tasks>
  <insertContact>
    <contact uid="0">
      <salutation>Mr.</salutation>
      <givenName>John</givenName>
      <familyName>Smith</familyName>
      <organisationName>Saasy.tv</organisationName>
      <organisationAbn>777888999</organisationAbn>
      <organisationPosition>Director</organisationPosition>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
      <mainPhone>            02 9999 9999      </mainPhone>
      <mobilePhone>            0444 444 444      </mobilePhone>
      <contactID>XYZ123</contactID>
      <tags>Gold Prospect, Film</tags>
      <postalAddress>
        <street>3/33 Victory Av</street>
        <city>North Sydney</city>
        <state>NSW</state>
<postCode>2000</postCode>
        <country>Australia</country>
      </postalAddress>
      <otherAddress>
        <street>111 Elizabeth street</street>
        <city>Sydney</city>
        <state>NSW</state>
<postCode>2000</postCode>
        <country>Australia</country>
      </otherAddress>
      <isActive>true</isActive>
      <acceptDirectDeposit>false</acceptDirectDeposit>
      <directDepositAccountName>John Smith</directDepositAccountName>
      <directDepositBsb>000000</directDepositBsb>
      <directDepositAccountNumber>12345678</directDepositAccountNumber>
      <acceptCheque>false</acceptCheque>
      <customField1>This is custom field 1</customField1>
      <customField2>This is custom field 2</customField2>
      <twitterID>Contact twitter id</twitterID>
      <skypeID>Contact skype id</skypeID>
    </contact>
  </insertContact>
</tasks>

 

 

I only have to insert 3 mandatory fields whcih are in the below code snipit im using but nothings working...

 

//set POST variables
$service_url = 'https://secure.saasu.com/webservices/rest/r1/tasks?wsaccesskey=<key removed>';


       $curl = curl_init($service_url);

$fileds = array(
'insertContact' => array(
	'contact' => array(
		'givenName' => urlencode('John'),
		'familyName' => urlencode('Smith'),
		'organisationName' => urlencode('Saasy.tv')
		)
	)
);

       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);
       $curl_response = curl_exec($curl);
       curl_close($curl);

       $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($curl_response);
   

 

 

Please help, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.... 

[JonnoTheDev]

According to your code $curl_post_data doesn't exist

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);

 

And from the requirements it looks like the data needs to be in XML format. You have not got that far. All you have is a multidimension array stored in $fileds