Create a product group
Overview
Use the addProductGroup method to create product groups for your account:
- Send null for product group Code. Avangate ignores any values you send for Code and generates identifiers itself.
- Use unique product group names.
- Send true or null for the Enabled property.
- Avangate throws an exception if you send a blank product group.
- If you send only the name of the product group Avangate creates the new product group entity.
Parameters
| Parameters | Type/Description |
|---|---|
|
sessionID |
Required (string) |
|
|
Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. Avangate throws an exception if the values are incorrect. The sessionID expires in 10 minutes. |
|
Name |
Required (string) |
|
|
The name of the product group. |
Response
bool(true)
Request
<?php
function callRPC($Request, $hostUrl, $Debug = true) {
$curl = curl_init($hostUrl);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 0);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Accept: application/json'));
$RequestString = json_encode($Request);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $RequestString);
if ($Debug) {
$RequestString;
}
$ResponseString = curl_exec($curl);
if ($Debug) {
$ResponseString;
}
if (!empty($ResponseString)) {
// var_dump($ResponseString);
$Response = json_decode($ResponseString);
if (isset($Response->result)) {
return $Response->result;
}
if (!is_null($Response->error)) {
var_dump($Request->method, $Response->error);
}
} else {
return null;
}
}
$host = 'https://api.avangate.com/rpc/3.0/';
$merchantCode = "YOURCODE12345";//your account's merchant code available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.avangate.com/cpanel/account_settings.php
$key = "SECRET_KEY";//your account's secret key available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.avangate.com/cpanel/account_settings.php
$string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen(gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s')) . gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
$hash = hash_hmac('md5', $string, $key);
$i = 1; // counter for api calls
// Call the login method for authentication
$jsonRpcRequest = new stdClass();
$jsonRpcRequest->jsonrpc = '2.0';
$jsonRpcRequest->method = 'login';
$jsonRpcRequest->params = array($merchantCode, gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'), $hash);
$jsonRpcRequest->id = $i++;
$sessionID = callRPC($jsonRpcRequest, $host);
$ProductGroup = new stdClass();
$ProductGroup->Name = 'New Product Group from API';
$ProductGroup->Code = null;//Send null for the Code. Avangate generates unique product group code identifiers.
$ProductGroup->TemplateName = 'Default Template';//'001 - Two Column Billing'; //the name of the cart template you want to associate with the product group
$ProductGroup->Description = 'This is a generic description';
$ProductGroup->Enabled = true;
$jsonRpcRequest = array (
'jsonrpc' => '2.0',
'id' => $i++,
'method' => 'addProductGroup',
'params' => array($sessionID, $ProductGroup)
);
var_dump (callRPC($jsonRpcRequest, $host));
?>
