Create contact or update existing one depending if they already exist - php

Question

I'm using Send In Blue to keep track of my contacts. Throughout my site I'm either updating the contact or creating a new one but I've never had to combine the two. I have my pieces of code separately below.
How can I combine the two so that if there's a user there already then it updates them and if not then it creates them?
Is it possible to update first and if that fails create them?
try {
$updateContact = new \SendinBlue\Client\Model\UpdateContact($data);
$result = $SendInBlue->updateContact($email, $updateContact);
return true;
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
And this is the code to create a contact:
try {
$createContact = new \SendinBlue\Client\Model\CreateContact($data);
$result = $SendInBlue->createContact($email, $createContact);
return true;
} catch (Exception $e) {
}

Answer 1

You can remove the updateContact() and just use createContact() because the is an updateEnabled option that can be set during the creation attempt. The purpose of this option is to "Facilitate to update the existing contact in the same request (updateEnabled = true)"
You can either set this while creating the CreateContact object ...
$data["updateEnabled"] = true;
$createContact = new \SendinBlue\Client\Model\CreateContact($data);
Or by using the setUpdateEnabled() method ...
try {
$createContact = new \SendinBlue\Client\Model\CreateContact($data);
$createContact->setUpdateEnabled(true);
$result = $SendInBlue->createContact($email, $createContact);
return true;
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
For reference, here is the code for the CreateContact class that you're using, and here is the documentation for the raw SendInBlue API.