[SugarCRM] SOAP and REST calls using PHP

Today I would like to share with you a recipe to connect two great CRM: Salesforce and SugarCRM. As you might know, I am self training on SugarCRM. However, it is pretty hard to find a straight forward tutorial with good samples of code. So I decided to write my own demo. This post will present two ways to create an account record in SugarCRM:
- with a web service (soap)
- with a REST call

Requirements

I am using the open source version of SugarCRM: the community edition version 6.4.0 running on my Ubuntu 10 laptop.

Versions
Apache: 2.2.21
PHP: 5.3.8
PHP Configure file:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --enable-ftp --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir --with-gd --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-freetype-dir --with-gettext --with-mysql --with-zlib-dir --with-ldap --with-openssl --enable-mbstring --enable-exif --enable-soap --enable-zip --with-curl

I am doing my tests on a local instance, the domain name is: sugarcrm1.ubuntu1, so the wdsl is reachable at: http://sugarcrm1.ubuntu1/soap.php?wsdl

Use case

I want to create this account:
- name: "Account Test 003"
- phone: "0102031003"

You need to get the MD5 hash of your SugarCRM password. Run from the command line:

php -r "echo md5('yourPassword').\"\\n\";"
ff85305ab86ceff0f59877358928d81d

SOAP

Here is a sample of code to:
- log in SugarCRM
- create an account record

$client = new SoapClient("http://sugarcrm1.ubuntu1/soap.php?wsdl", array("trace" => 1, "exception" => 0)); 

// LOGIN
$response = $client->__soapCall("login", 
  array(
    "user_auth" =>
     array(
  'user_name' => "admin",
  'password' => "0192023a7bbd73220a16f06cdf18b532",
  'version' => "0.1"
  ),
 "application_name" => ''
  )
);
$session_id = $response->id;
echo "session_id=$session_id\n";

// CREATE ACCOUNT
$response = $client->set_entry($session_id, 'Accounts', array(
 array('name' => 'name', 'value' => "Account Test 003"), 
 array('name' => 'phone', 'value' => "0102031003")
));
$account_id = $response->id;
echo "account_id=$account_id\n";

The "trace" parameter when creating the SoapClient instance let you play with the PHP Soap debug trace. Try to add these lines at the end of the code:

echo "LastRequest\n";
echo $client->__getLastRequest();
echo "LastResponse\n";
echo $client->__getLastResponse();

LastRequest:

cbbd39b6cb2774bc3db950ea095aa900
Accounts


name
Account Test 003


phone
0102031003

LastResponse:

5d0c048b-fda9-73c5-bb1b-4ecade8bd41a

0
No Error
No Error

REST

Here is a sample of code to:
- log in SugarCRM
- create an account record

// LOGIN
$url = 'http://sugarcrm1.ubuntu1/service/v2/rest.php'; 
$curl = curl_init($url); 
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); 
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); 
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); 
$parameters = 
  array(
 "user_auth" =>
  array(
  'user_name' => "admin",
  'password' => "0192023a7bbd73220a16f06cdf18b532",
  'version' => "0.1"
  ),
 "application_name" => ''
  );
$json = json_encode($parameters); 
$postArgs = 'method=login&input_type=json&response_type=json&rest_data=' . $json; 
echo "postArgs=$postArgs\n";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postArgs); 
$response = curl_exec($curl); 
$result = json_decode($response); 
if(!is_object($result)) { die("Connection error\n"); } 
$sessionid = $result->id;
$userid=$result->name_value_list->user_id->value;

// CREATE ACCOUNT
$parameters = array(
 'session' => $sessionid,
 'module_name' => 'Accounts',
 'name_value_list' => array(
  array('name' => 'assigned_user_id', 'value' => $userid), 
  array('name' => 'name', 'value' => "Account Test 005"), 
  array('name' => 'phone', 'value' => "0102031005")
 )
);
$json = json_encode($parameters); 
$postArgs = 'method=set_entry&input_type=json&response_type=json&rest_data=' . $json; 
echo "postArgs=$postArgs\n";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postArgs); 
$response = curl_exec($curl); 
$result = json_decode($response); 
print_r($result);
curl_close($curl);  

Here is the parameters sent:

method=set_entry&input_type=json&response_type=json&rest_data={"session":"3f339d60c1050ed57e44976a135e156a","module_name":"Accounts","name_value_list":[{"name":"assigned_user_id","value":"1"},{"name":"name","value":"Account Test 005"},{"name":"phone","value":"0102031005"}]}

And the result (deserialized):

stdClass Object
(
    [id] => bb7fd58d-fd85-045f-c7a2-4ecad4d4aba2
)

In the next post I will show an easy way to synchronize data between Salesforce and SugarCRM!