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Does Phreebooks contain any API or similar facility to add orders without using the web interface?

I'm looking to write a bash script to pull customer and purchase info from an order email (generated by my shopping cart) and use said info to automatically create an invoice under a pre-existing customer account in Phreebooks.

Is this possible? I know I could probably use MySQL to add the order info to the database manually, but if there is a simpler way I'd perfer that...

Can you point me in the right direction?

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Tony Lovasco
Twisted Lincoln, Inc.
http://www.twistedlincoln.com

You should NEVER enter data directly into the db. There are too many dependencies between tables and the chance of messing things up is very high. The concept behind Phreedom is a loosely coupled interaction between the code and external interfaces. The API is the XML transactions handled in Phreedom and other applications. I don't have a lot of experience with bash scripting but if you can post a xml transaction through this method and process a response, you should bed able to enter an order this way.

Dave

I laugh. That's kinda what I was thinking...

I think I can handle the bash script part, it's the actual XML transaction process that I'm not familiar with in the context of Phreebooks.

Is the Phreebooks API documented anywhere? Or, in the alternative, could you point me in the right direction within the PHP code? It might be easier for me to write a PHP script that enters the invoice info, and just call that script from bash when needed.

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Tony Lovasco
Twisted Lincoln, Inc.
http://www.twistedlincoln.com

In the ZenCart interface, Zencart files folder, look at the file /admin/includes/classes/phreedom.php. This assembles the string to submit. the code includes the soap cURL file to performt he xml transaction.

Dave