Trying to add contacts via ActiveCampain API (Laravel) - php

Question

I´m trying to integrate the RESTFUL API of ActiveCampaing to my Laravel environment, but I haven’t been so luckier, I'm using GuzzleHttp to make the requests, this is the error image and my code:
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client([‘base_uri’ => ‘https://myaccount.api-us1.com/api/3/’]);
$response = $client->request('POST', 'contacts', [
'headers' => [
'Api-Token' => 'xxx',
'api_action' => 'contact_add',
],
'json' => [
'email' => 'test2021#test.com',
'first_name' => 'Julian',
'last_name' => 'Carax',
]
]);
echo $response->getStatusCode(); // 200
echo $response->getBody();
Hope you could help me! :D

Answer 1

you are not sending the data in correct format,
from the docs https://developers.activecampaign.com/reference#contact
{
"contact": {
"email": "johndoe#example.com",
"firstName": "John",
"lastName": "Doe",
"phone": "7223224241",
"fieldValues":[
{
"field":"1",
"value":"The Value for First Field"
},
{
"field":"6",
"value":"2008-01-20"
}
]
}
}
So create an array with key contact.
$contact["contact"] = [
"email" => "johndoe#example.com",
"firstName" => "John",
"lastName" => "Doe",
"phone" => "7223224241",
"fieldValues" => [
[
"field"=>"1",
"value"=>"The Value for First Field"
],
[
"field"=>"6",
"value"=>"2008-01-20"
]
]
];
Use try catch blocks as then you can catch your errors
try{
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(["base_uri" => "https://myaccount.api-us1.com/api/3/"]);
$response = $client->request('POST', 'contacts', [
'headers' => [
'Api-Token' => 'xxx',
'api_action' => 'contact_add',
],
'json' => $contact
]);
if($response->getStatusCode() == "200" || $response->getStatusCode() == "201"){
$arrResponse = json_decode($response->getBody(),true);
}
} catch(\GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException $e){
$error['error'] = $e->getMessage();
if ($e->hasResponse()){
$error['response'] = $e->getResponse()->getBody()->getContents();
}
// logging the request
\Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log::error("Guzzle Exception :: ", $error);
// take other actions
} catch(Exception $e){
return response()->json(
['message' => $e->getMessage()],
method_exists($e, 'getStatusCode') ? $e->getStatusCode() : 500);
}

Answer 2

You can check at the API docs that the fields email, first_name, last_name are under a contact node.
So make a contact array, put these fields inside and you should be fine.
The fields for first and last name are written line firstName and lastName - camelCase, not snake_case like you did.
Official php client
You should probably use the official ActiveCampaign php api client - that would make your life easier.