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Retrieve product tax categories

Retrieve product tax categories

Last updated: 07-Oct-2021
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Overview

Use the getProductTaxCategories method via SOAP API 6.0 to retrieve the available tax categories and manage them for your catalog products.

Request Parameters

Parameters Type Required/Optional Description

sessionID

String Required

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.

ProductTaxCategories

String Required The product tax category for the product.

Request Example

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

class Configuration
{
    public const MERCHANT_CODE = '';
    public const MERCHANT_KEY = '';
    public const URL = 'http://api.2checkout.com/soap/6.0';
    public const ACTION = 'getTaxCategories';
    public const ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS = null;
    //array or JSON
    public const PAYLOAD = [];
}

class Client
{
    public function call(
        string $url = Configuration::URL,
        $payload = Configuration::PAYLOAD,
        string $action = Configuration::ACTION
    ) {
        if (is_array($payload)) {
            $payload = json_encode($payload);
        }
        if (!empty($payload)) {
            // SoapClient works with objects(StdClass)
            $payload = json_decode($payload);
        }
        $soapClient = $this->getClient($url);
        $sessionId = $this->getSession($soapClient);
        $args = array_filter([$sessionId, $payload]);

        return $soapClient->$action(...$args);
    }

    public function getClient(string $url): SoapClient
    {
        return new SoapClient(
            $url.'?wsdl',
            [
                'location' => $url,
                'cache_wsdl' => WSDL_CACHE_NONE,
            ]
        );
    }

    public function getSession(SoapClient $client)
    {
        $date = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $merchantCode = Configuration::MERCHANT_CODE;
        $key = Configuration::MERCHANT_KEY;
        $string = strlen($merchantCode).$merchantCode.strlen($date).$date;
        $hash = hash_hmac('md5', $string, $key);
        $client->__setCookie('XDEBUG_SESSION', 'PHPSTORM');

        return $client->login($merchantCode, $date, $hash);
    }
}

$client = new Client();
$result = $client->call();
var_dump($result);

Response

Parameters Type/Description
Product Object
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