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API - Get Specific Supplier

It is recommended to rather obtain all suppliers, and parse the information for a specific supplier, but this function is available if you do require it.

URL: getSupplierDetails_JSON.php

JSON Option (recommended):

to use as JSON, append ?apiformat=json to the URL, then send through all variables as a JSON encoded string.

Required Fields:

username
password
SupplierID (the supplier_id unique to this business, not globally)

Returns:

JSON encoded array of supplier information in the following format:

$array[supplier_id][field_name] = field_value;

Fields Returned:

supplier_id: ID of the supplier - unique to this business, but not globally unique (when using this supplier id, the business id is always also required)
supplier_name
supplier_account_number
supplier_vat_nr
supplier_phone_nr
supplier_phone_nr2
supplier_fax_nr
supplier_mobile_nr
supplier_email
contact_name
contact_surname
supplier_postal_address1
supplier_postal_address2
supplier_postal_address3
supplier_postal_address4
supplier_physical_address1
supplier_physical_address2
supplier_physical_address3
supplier_physical_address4
supplier_notes - max 10,000 characters - Notes on the supplier (should not be made visible to the supplier)
active - 1 or 0
balance - decimal(20,2) - current balance of the supplier
opening_balance - decimal(20,2) - initial balance of the supplier, should always be deducted from the current balance, in order to obtain the true current balance

Example PHP code with JSON

$param['username'] = '';
$param['password'] = '';
$param['SupplierID'] = ''; //note the case
	
$url = 'https://www.jobcardsonline.co.za/api/getSupplierDetails_JSON.php?apiformat=json';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); //set the url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); //return as a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); //set POST method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($param)); //set the POST variables
$response = curl_exec($ch); //run the whole process and return the response

 

Updated: Sat, 30 May 2020