Commission Junction Web Services/ SOAP and MagicParser
Submitted by mastereyes on Wed, 2009-09-09 19:31.Magic Parser
Is there any example to fetch the data from Commission Junction's (cj.com) web services? They are using SOAP.
Regards,
Matt
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Commission Junction Web Services/ SOAP and MagicParserSubmitted by mastereyes on Wed, 2009-09-09 19:31.Magic Parser
Is there any example to fetch the data from Commission Junction's (cj.com) web services? They are using SOAP. Regards, Matt |
Hi Matt,
There's isn't a specific Commission Junction + SOAP example; however the general principle is to use Magic Parser with an appropriate Format String to parse the response records (presumably a list of PRODUCT records) directly from with the SOAP envelope.
If you're running PHP > 5.0.01, SOAP is now included, and should be as straight forward as creating a SOAPClient object with the WSDL that describes the service.
With that in place; you should be able to call a function with the required parameters that will return an XML document as a string; and that XML document can then be passed to MagicParser_parse() using string:// and the appropriate Format String.
The easiest way to establish the Format String might be to use the demo tool here on the Magic Parser website; or during development of your script, obtain the XML into a string and then use:
$formatString = MagicParser_getFormat("string://".$xml);print $formatString;
Based on other SOAP example, you might expect something like:
xml|SOAP:ENVELOPE/SOAP:BODY/M:GETPRODUCTSRESPONSE/PRODUCTS/PRODUCT...and then in your live application (this just saves Magic Parser having to auto-detect each time)..
MagicParser_parse("string://".$xml,"myRecordHandler","xml|SOAP:ENVELOPE/SOAP:BODY/M:GETPRODUCTSRESPONSE/PRODUCTS/PRODUCT");Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.