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Hi I am having a huge amount of issues when sending user information updates from one web site to another one. They are both Drupal site, but one has Civicrm. I tried to use the REST interface but I realized that it is not a REST interface since it is using PHP Session, the developer should learn what REST is, then implement it. The other problem is the lack of libraries to use REST in PHP. In the end I am sending the data using my custom HTTP calls. When I receive the data as HTTP parameters ($_REQUEST) I create an array this way:

function get_profile() {
  return array(
    'contact_type' => 'Individual', // to be checked
    'email' => $_REQUEST['email'],
    'title' => $_REQUEST['title'],
    'first_name' => $_REQUEST['first_name'],
    'surname' => $_REQUEST['surname'],
    'display_name' => $_REQUEST['display_name'],
    'telephone' => $_REQUEST['telephone'],
    'address_1' => $_REQUEST['address_1'],
    'address_2' => $_REQUEST['address_2'],
    'town_city' => $_REQUEST['town_city'],
    'province' => $_REQUEST['province'],
    'postcode' => $_REQUEST['postcode'],
    'website' => $_REQUEST['website'],
    'discipline' => $_REQUEST['discipline'],
    'other_discipline' => $_REQUEST['other_discipline'],
    'sex' => $_REQUEST['sex'],
    'disabled' => $_REQUEST['disabled'],
    'education_establishment' => $_REQUEST['education_establishment'],
    'ethnicity' => $_REQUEST['ethnicity'],
    'other_ethnicity' => $_REQUEST['other_ethnicity'],
    'other_ethnicity_non_white' => $_REQUEST['other_ethnicity_non_white']
  );
}

Than I search for a contact using the email address, if the contact is not there I create it

civicrm_contact_create(get_profile());

or I update it:

civicrm_contact_update($contact); // when update add contact id to the array

The problem is I get this error:

<b>Warning</b>:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in <b>/opt/local/apache2/htdocs/craftcentral-crm/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/Website.php</b> on line <b>78</b><br />[Debug] 18.

The CRM code is the following:

     static function create( &$params, $contactID, $skipDelete ) {
         if ( empty( $params ) ) {
             return false;
         }
         
         $ids = self::allWebsites( $contactID );
         
         foreach ( $params as $key => $values ) {
             $websiteId = CRM_Utils_Array::value( 'id', $values );
             if ( $websiteId ) {
                 if ( array_key_exists( $websiteId, $ids ) ) {
                     unset( $ids[$websiteId] );
                 } else {
                     unset( $values['id'] );
                 }
             }

Do you have an idea of what kind of array I should send? I am actually sending an array. What that function is doing. Websites? The code is very inexpressive and not really easy to understand what is achieving. Please advise.

UPDATE: it seems that the create and update call is working although there is this warning

Didn't notice you are still on 3.3. The API has been greatly improved since then. Try to migrate to the latest 3.4 or backport the api (eileen has written instructions on how to do it).

Out of curiosity, how do you handle authentication with your interface?

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