Question

What would be the correct way to pull the xml, into the API?

Example of straight xml in the api code; ( which is what we dont want, we need it to pull the xml from a file )

BigCommerce_Api::useXml();

$xml = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <brand>
        <name>Apple</name>
        <search_keywords>computers laptops</search_keywords>
    </brand>";

$result = BigCommerce_Api::createBrand($xml);

My dodgy attempt at bringing in the xml via fopen;

<?
require_once 'BigCommerce/Api.php';

BigCommerce_Api::configure(array(
'store_url' => 'https://apiurl',
'username'  => 'admin',
'api_key'   => 'apitoken'
));

$filename = "xmlfile.xml";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$XPost = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);

BigCommerce_Api::useXml();

$xml = $XPost;

$result = BigCommerce_Api::createProduct($xml); 

?>

If anyone could let us know how to bring the xml into the useXML var appropriately, feel free to share 🙂

( some of the formatting of the code is paying up after quotes applied )

Thanks!

Answer 1

I have no idea why you make your life that complicated:

BigCommerce_Api::useXml();

$xml = file_get_contents('xmlfile.xml');

$result = BigCommerce_Api::createBrand($xml);

See file_get_contents.