As i understand your query, here is the method to get the api data, into xml format first.
$xml contain xml response you have made to get the data from api.
$soap_do = curl_init();
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
$result = curl_exec($soap_do);
curl_close($soap_do);
//echo $result;
//echo $result_array = json_encode($result);
//echo $description = $result->extendeddescription;
$p = xml_parser_create();
xml_parse_into_struct($p, $result, $vals, $index);
xml_parser_free($p);
After you can break the xml into array and get the value.
here $vals contains the valid array of xml comes data.
If you want to import the product as find into xml array you need to run new product making script with valid input param comes form api.
The Below code, you can used to add or update new category
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->setStoreId(0);
$categoryName = $cate;
$rootCategory['name'] = $categoryName;
$rootCategory['path'] = "1/2";
//$rootCategory['display_mode'] = "PRODUCTS";
$rootCategory['is_active'] = 1;
$category->addData($rootCategory);
try
{
$category->save();
$CategoryId = $category->getId();
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
echo "categories not found";
}
And for product adding you need to follow the below script with valid input params
$obj = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
$_product = $obj->load($productid); // Enter your Product Id in $product_id
// get Product's name
$name = $_product->getName();
//get product's short description
$shortdes = $_product->getShortDescription();
//get Product's Long Description
$des = $_product->getDescription();
//get Product's Regular Price
//echo $_product->getPrice();
//get Product's Special price
//echo $_product->getSpecialPrice();
//get Product's Url
//echo $_product->getProductUrl();
//get Product's image Url
//echo $_product->getImageUrl();
//echo "<pre>";print_r($_GET);exit;
/*********Getting values*********/
$optionval1 = $_GET['optionval1'];
$optionval2 = $_GET['optionval2'];
$optionval3 = $_GET['optionval3'];
$optionval4 = $_GET['optionval4'];
$image = $_GET['image'];
//print_r($image);
$image_parts = explode('/',$image);
$count = count($image_parts);
$final_image = $image_parts[$count-1];
//echo "<pre>";print_r($image_parts[$count-1]);exit;
$price = $_GET['price'];
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
$product_sku = time();
$product->setSku($product_sku);
$product->setName($name);
$product->setDescription($des);
$product->setShortDescription($shortdes);
//-- price section
$product->setPrice($price);
//$product->setSpecialPrice(10);
//----- company address and map
$product->setTypeId('simple');
$product->setAttributeSetId(9); // default
$product->setCategoryIds(array(20)); // need to look these up
$product->setWeight(1.0);
$product->setTaxClassId(2); // taxable goods
$product->setVisibility(3); // search
$product->setStatus(1); // enabled
$productQty = '1';
//$stockData=$product->getStockData();
$stockData['qty']=$productQty;
$stockData['is_in_stock']=1;
$stockData['manage_stock']=1;
$stockData['use_config_manage_stock']=0;
$product->setStockData($stockData);
// adding images to product
$abspath = getcwd();
$path = "./final_images/new/".$final_image;
//print_r($path);
?>
<?php
if (file_exists($path)) {
$product->addImageToMediaGallery($path,array('image','small_image','thumbnail'),false,false);
}
$product->setWebsiteIds(array(Mage::app()->getStore(true)->getWebsite()->getId()));
$product->save();
/*********** custom option for cart ***********/
$new_product_id=$product->getId();
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($new_product_id);
$optionData = array(
'is_require' => false,
'title' => 'Select Font',
'type' => 'drop_down',
'sort_order' => 0,
'values' => array(
array(
'is_delete' => 0,
'title' => '12',
'price_type' => 'fixed',
'price' => '',
'sku' => '',
'sort_order' => 0,
),
array(
'title' => '18',
'price_type' => 'fixed',
'price' => '',
'sku' => '',
'sort_order' => 1,
)),
);
$product->setHasOptions(1);
$option = Mage::getModel('catalog/product_option')
->setProductId($new_product_id)
->setStoreId(1)
->addData($optionData);
$option->save();
$product->addOption($option);
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);
$product->save();
/*********** custom option for cart end***********/
$productid = $product->getId();
$result['product'] = $productid;
echo $result['product'];
Hope this will help you, or make sense what you should need to do.
Thanks to the help of SoapUI, I found the following request format would work using PHP SoapClient:
$request = [
'sessionId' => $session,
'filters' => [
'filter' => [
[
'key' => 'status',
'value' => 'pending'
]
]
]
];
XML Request:
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:ns1="urn:Magento">
<env:Body>
<ns1:salesOrderListRequestParam>
<sessionId>318ca8b59763279e9e4dbe969e5ec4e1</sessionId>
<filters>
<filter>
<complexObjectArray>
<key>status</key>
<value>pending</value>
</complexObjectArray>
</filter>
</filters>
</ns1:salesOrderListRequestParam>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>
Best Answer
The functionality of logging users in to access their data from a mobile app for example is more a case for OAuth. You can read more about OAuth in Magento here and about the configuration here.
The API's are more meant to exchange information not tied to a specific user.