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I am going to use contribute API function "civicrm_contribution_add" to create a pending contribute then using "civicrm_contribution_get" function to get the contribute id and then update the contribute status to "completed"  by using "civicrm_contribution_add" again.

However, even I provide a 'contribution_id' to the params it keeps adding new contributions. This is a part of my codes.

$crm_contribute_id=61;
$params       = array(
                      'contribution_id' => $crm_contribute_id,
                      'contact_id' => $contact_id,
                      'total_amount'    => $amount,
                      'receive_date'           => date('Ymd'),
                      'contribution_type_id'   => 1,
                      'contribution_status_id' => 1, //Completed
                      );
$contribution =& civicrm_contribution_add($params);

It created a new contribute with "id"=62 and the old one wasn't updated.

I suppose the "contact_id" and 'contribution_type_id' are not necessary in the params since I only need to update the status, but it returned with error saying these values are required.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your reply.

However, no matter 'contribution_id' or 'id' it still created a new record.

My current solution is add
$params_del       = array(
                      'contribution_id' => $crm_contribute_id
                      );
$contribution_del =& civicrm_contribution_delete($params_del);
to my api code to remove the pending status contribute. It is working so I suspect "add" and "delete" are using the same params key "contribution_id".