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QuickBooks - Create an Account

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Demonstrates how to send an JSON request to create a QuickBooks account.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// First get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
$jsonToken = new CkJsonObject();
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile('qa_data/tokens/qb-access-token.json');

$rest = new CkRest();

$bAutoReconnect = true;
$success = $rest->Connect('sandbox-quickbooks.api.intuit.com',443,true,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != true) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$sbAuth = new CkStringBuilder();
$sbAuth->Append('Bearer ');
$sbAuth->Append($jsonToken->stringOf('access_token'));
$rest->put_Authorization($sbAuth->getAsString());

$jsonRequest = new CkJsonObject();
$jsonRequest->AppendString('AccountType','Credit Card');
$jsonRequest->AppendString('Name','Banana Republic');
$requestBody = $jsonRequest->emit();

// "123146096291789" is the company ID.
$sbPath = new CkStringBuilder();
$sbPath->Append('/v3/company/123146096291789/account?minorversion=45');

$rest->AddHeader('Content-Type','application/json');
$rest->AddHeader('Accept','application/json');
$rest->put_AllowHeaderFolding(false);

$responseBody = $rest->fullRequestString('POST',$sbPath->getAsString(),$requestBody);
if ($rest->get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
    print 'Request Header: ' . "\n";
    print $rest->lastRequestHeader() . "\n";
    print '----' . "\n";
    print 'Response StatusCode = ' . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\n";
    print 'Response StatusLine: ' . $rest->responseStatusText() . "\n";
    print 'Response Header:' . "\n";
    print $rest->responseHeader() . "\n";
    print $responseBody . "\n";
    exit;
}

$jsonResponse = new CkJsonObject();
$jsonResponse->Load($responseBody);
$jsonResponse->put_EmitCompact(false);
print $jsonResponse->emit() . "\n";
print 'Success.' . "\n";

// A sample JSON response:

// Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
// Generate Parsing Code from JSON

// {
//   "Account": {
//     "Name": "Banana Republic",
//     "SubAccount": false,
//     "FullyQualifiedName": "Banana Republic",
//     "Active": true,
//     "Classification": "Liability",
//     "AccountType": "Credit Card",
//     "AccountSubType": "CreditCard",
//     "CurrentBalance": 0,
//     "CurrentBalanceWithSubAccounts": 0,
//     "CurrencyRef": {
//       "value": "USD",
//       "name": "United States Dollar"
//     },
//     "domain": "QBO",
//     "sparse": false,
//     "Id": "97",
//     "SyncToken": "0",
//     "MetaData": {
//       "CreateTime": "2016-10-25T05:07:12-07:00",
//       "LastUpdatedTime": "2016-10-25T05:07:12-07:00"
//     }
//   },
//   "time": "2016-10-25T05:07:11.714-07:00"
// }

?>