Update a customer

Overview

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

Parameters

Response

Request

<?php
$host   = "https://api.avangate.com";
$client = new SoapClient($host . "/soap/4.0/?wsdl", array(
    'location' => $host . "/soap/4.0/",
    "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";
$key = "YOUR_SECRET_KEY";
$now = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$string = strlen($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';

try {
    $customerInfo = $client->getCustomerInformation($sessionID, $customerReference, $externalCustomerReference);
} catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "customerInfo: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}

$customerInfo->Email = 'newemailaddressupdated@email.com';

// New Credit object (optional)
$customerInfo->Credit = new stdClass();
$customerInfo->Credit->Limit = 51.0;       // float
$customerInfo->Credit->Remaining = 21.0;   // float
$customerInfo->Credit->Currency = 'EUR';   // string

$UpdateEndUserSubscriptions = false;

try {
    $updatedCustomerInfo = $client->updateCustomerInformation($sessionID, $customerInfo, $UpdateEndUserSubscriptions);
} catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "updatedCustomerInfo: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}

var_dump("updatedCustomerInfo", $updatedCustomerInfo);