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effectconnect Create or Replace Product Catalog

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Use this call to create or replace a product catalog in EffectConnect. This is always a purge and replace action for the entire catalog.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$uri = '/products';
$apiVersion = '2.0';

$http = new CkHttp();
$req = new CkHttpRequest();

// Use your effectconnect public key here...
$req->AddHeader('KEY','PUBLIC_KEY');
$req->AddHeader('VERSION',$apiVersion);
$req->AddHeader('URI',$uri);
$req->AddHeader('RESPONSETYPE','XML');
$req->AddHeader('RESPONSELANGUAGE','en');

// Get the current date/time in timestamp format.
$dt = new CkDateTime();
$dt->SetFromCurrentSystemTime();
$timestamp = $dt->getAsTimestamp(true);

$req->AddHeader('TIME',$timestamp);
print 'timestamp = ' . $timestamp . "\n";

$sbXml = new CkStringBuilder();
$success = $sbXml->LoadFile('qa_data/xml/effectconnect/effconCreate.xml','utf-8');
print 'length = ' . $sbXml->get_Length() . "\n";

$req->put_HttpVerb('POST');
$req->put_Path($uri);
$req->put_ContentType('multipart/form-data');
$success = $req->AddStringForUpload('payload','effcon.xml',$sbXml->getAsString(),'utf-8');
if ($success == false) {
    print $req->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Build a string-to-sign and sign it using our effectconnect private key
$sbStringToSign = new CkStringBuilder();
$sbStringToSign->AppendInt($sbXml->get_Length());
$sbStringToSign->Append('POST');
$sbStringToSign->Append($uri);
$sbStringToSign->Append($apiVersion);
$sbStringToSign->Append($timestamp);

$crypt = new CkCrypt2();
$crypt->put_MacAlgorithm('hmac');
$crypt->put_HashAlgorithm('sha512');
$crypt->put_EncodingMode('base64');
// Use your effectconnect private key here:
$crypt->SetMacKeyString('PRIVATE_KEY');
$req->AddHeader('SIGNATURE',$crypt->macStringENC($sbStringToSign->getAsString()));

$resp = new CkHttpResponse();
$success = $http->HttpSReq('submit.effectconnect.com',443,true,$req,$resp);
if ($success == false) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'response status code = ' . $resp->get_StatusCode() . "\n";

// Examine the response.  The response status code can be 200 for both errors and success.
// The success or error is based on the XML returned in the response body.
$xmlResp = new CkXml();
$xmlResp->LoadXml($resp->bodyStr());

print 'response body:' . "\n";
print $xmlResp->getXml() . "\n";

// A sample response:

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
// <ApiResponseContainer>
//     <Request>
//         <RequestType>Products</RequestType>
//         <RequestAction>Create</RequestAction>
//         <RequestVersion>2.0</RequestVersion>
//         <RequestIdentifier/>
//         <ProcessedAt>2019-04-18T15:28:55+02:00</ProcessedAt>
//     </Request>
//     <Response>
//         <Result>Success</Result>
//         <ProductsCreateResponseContainer>
//             <ProcessID><![CDATA[J048hgS4OkNn0JnH]]></ProcessID>
//         </ProductsCreateResponseContainer>
//     </Response>
// </ApiResponseContainer>

// Parsing the response...

$RequestType = $xmlResp->getChildContent('Request|RequestType');
$RequestAction = $xmlResp->getChildContent('Request|RequestAction');
$RequestVersion = $xmlResp->getChildContent('Request|RequestVersion');
$ProcessedAt = $xmlResp->getChildContent('Request|ProcessedAt');
$Result = $xmlResp->getChildContent('Response|Result');
$ProcessID = $xmlResp->getChildContent('Response|ProductsCreateResponseContainer|ProcessID');

?>