API PHP Code Sample: Update a Person

In this PHP code sample we will show you how to update information for a person already in the database. This request uses the PUT method and requires the Curl library.

The API documentation for the person resource can be found at:
https://www.myintervals.com/api/resource.php?r=person


//initialize variable values
$apiToken = ""; //your api token value
$personId = 80212; //the id of the person you are updating

//create the xml file to PUT
$putString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n";
$putString .= "<person>\n";
$putString .= "<firstname>John</firstname>\n";
$putString .= "<lastname>Reeve</lastname>\n";
$putString .= "</person>\n";

//write the put string to a temp file, since curl PUT has to read from a file
$putData = tmpfile();
fwrite($putData, $putString);
fseek($putData, 0);

//intialize and send the curl request
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://{$api_url}/person/$personId");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $apiToken . ":");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Accept: application/xml", "Content-type: application/xml"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $putData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, strlen($putString));
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

//close out the temp file
fclose($putData);




What do you mean "Doesn't work"? What happens?

You don't need to change the USERPWD line - your API token is effectively your password as far as the API is concerned (this avoids applications storing the user's password).

Reading that code I notice it doesn't have the API URL. Try adding the following under initialise variable values:
$api_url = 'api.myintervals.com';

It seems you have to specify a new password for the user you're updating. If you don't want to change their password you have to know their existing one? Is that right?