How can I import users in contact list through hook or API in sugarcrm? - joomla

Question

I want to integrate users of my Joomla site into sugarcrm panel. I'm using SuiteCRM Version 7.7.6 [Sugar Version 6.5.24 (Build 509)] and trying to import csv file of users into contact list of sugarcrm through hook.
Means I want to build functionality for auto integration in between Joomla and Sugarcrm site. When a new user register on Joomla site, they should be auto added in the contact list of crm panel.
Is there any possible way to implement this integration ?

Answer 1

I have got a solution to integrate records in a particular module of sugarcrm through Rest API.
Create php file anywhere outside your CRM project directory and write API code as given below.
Need to set site URL of sugarcrm and configure admin username and password in API.
After that, set module name in which you want to add data.
Adjust your data in given array format.
Now just hit the file URL on browser where you placed this API.
Data will be successfully added in the required module.
API Code:
$url = "http://{site_url}/service/v4_1/rest.php";
$username = "admin";
$password = "password";
//function to make cURL request
function call($method, $parameters, $url)
{
ob_start();
$curl_reque**strong text**st = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
$jsonEncodedData = json_encode($parameters);
$post = array(
"method" => $method,
"input_type" => "JSON",
"response_type" => "JSON",
"rest_data" => $jsonEncodedData
);
curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
$result = curl_exec($curl_request);
curl_close($curl_request);
$result = explode("\r\n\r\n", $result, 2);
$response = json_decode($result[1]);
ob_end_flush();
return $response;
}
//login --------------------------------------------
$login_parameters = array(
"user_auth" => array(
"user_name" => $username,
"password" => md5($password),
"version" => "1"
),
"application_name" => "RestTest",
"name_value_list" => array(),
);
$login_result = call("login", $login_parameters, $url);
/*
echo "<pre>";
print_r($login_result);
echo "</pre>";
*/
//get session id
$session_id = $login_result->id;
//create contacts ------------------------------------
$set_entries_parameters = array(
//session id
"session" => $session_id,
//The name of the module from which to retrieve records.
"module_name" => "Contacts",
//Record attributes
"name_value_list" => array(
array(
//to update a record, you will nee to pass in a record id as commented below
//array("name" => "id", "value" => "912e58c0-73e9-9cb6-c84e-4ff34d62620e"),
array("name" => "first_name", "value" => "John"),
array("name" => "last_name", "value" => "Smith"),
),
array(
//to update a record, you will nee to pass in a record id as commented below
//array("name" => "id", "value" => "99d6ddfd-7d52-d45b-eba8-4ff34d684964"),
array("name" => "first_name", "value" => "Jane"),
array("name" => "last_name", "value" => "Doe"),
),
),
);
$set_entries_result = call("set_entries", $set_entries_parameters, $url);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($set_entries_result);
echo "</pre>";
Click here for more details:
http://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Developer/Sugar_Developer_Guide_6.5/Application_Framework/Web_Services/Examples/REST/PHP/Creating_or_Updating_Multiple_Records/

Answer 2

Yes it would be possible, although not practicable to do in a hook.
If you need to import a CSV more than once, implementing a scheduler job for the import might be a good idea.
However you could actually not use CSV at all and let Joomla or an intermediate script push the data to sugar in real-time or a time interval of your choice using the REST API of your CRM.