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Update a customer

Last updated: 25-Sep-2019
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Overview

Use the updateCustomerInformation method to update the details of a customer entity from the 2Checkout system.

Parameters

Parameters

Type/Description

sessionID

Required (string)

 

Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. 2Checkout throws an exception if the values are incorrect.  The sessionID expires in 10 minutes.

Customer

Object

Response

Boolean

true or false depending on whether or not the operation succeeded.

Request


<?php
$host   = "https://api.2checkout.com";
$client = new SoapClient($host . "/soap/3.0/?wsdl", array(
    'location' => $host . "/soap/3.0/",
    "stream_context" => stream_context_create(array(
        'ssl' => array(
            'verify_peer' => false,
            'verify_peer_name' => false
        )
    ))
));

function hmac($key, $data)
{
    $b = 64; // byte length for md5
    if (strlen($key) > $b) {
        $key = pack("H*", md5($key));
    }
    
    $key    = str_pad($key, $b, chr(0x00));
    $ipad   = str_pad('', $b, chr(0x36));
    $opad   = str_pad('', $b, chr(0x5c));
    $k_ipad = $key ^ $ipad;
    $k_opad = $key ^ $opad;
    return md5($k_opad . pack("H*", md5($k_ipad . $data)));
}
$merchantCode = "YOUR_MERCHANT_CODE";// your account's merchant code available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/account_settings.php
$key = "YOUR_SECRET_KEY";// your account's secret key available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/account_settings.php
$now          = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'); //date_default_timezone_set('UTC')
$string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen($now) . $now;
$hash   = hmac($key, $string);
try {
    $sessionID = $client->login($merchantCode, $now, $hash);
}
catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "Authentication: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}
$customerReference = 298084139;
$externalCustomerReference = 'Apitest123456'; //Optional, but if you include it it needs to belong to the same customer as the internal 2Checkout customer reference
try {
    $customerInfo = $client->getCustomerInformation($sessionID, $customerReference, $externalCustomerReference);
}
catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "customerInfo: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}
$customerInfo->Email = 'newemailaddressupdated@email.com';
try {
    $updatedCustomerInfo = $client->updateCustomerInformation($sessionID, $customerInfo);
}
catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "updatedCustomerInfo: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}
var_dump("updatedCustomerInfo", $updatedCustomerInfo);

 

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