Magento Product Create via API not working - php

Question

I have been fighting with the Magento SOAP web service for a week and I can not figure out why I can not create a product using the API.
Below is my PHP code:
$client = new SoapClient('http://mywebsie.com/wp/store/api/soap/?wsdl');
// If some stuff requires api authentification,
// then get a session token
$session = $client->login('apiuser', 'apikey');
// get attribute set
$attributeSets = $client->call($session, 'product_attribute_set.list');
$attributeSet = current($attributeSets);
$newProductData = array(
'name' => 'Test product',
'websites' => array(1),
'short_description' => 'This is the short desc',
'description' => 'This is the long desc',
'price' => 150.00,
'status' => 1,
'tax_class_id' => 0,
'visibility' => 4
);
try {
// product creation
$client->call($session, 'product.create', array('simple', $set['set_id'], $ItemNmbr, $newProductData));
}
catch(SoapFault $e)
{
$msg = "Error in inserting product with sku $ItemNmbr : ".$e->getMessage();
echo $msg;
}
I am getting the following error:
Error in inserting product with sku ING-ACCS-00009 : Invalid data given. Details in error message.

Answer 1

I think you got this code from http://www.magentocommerce.com/api/soap/catalog/catalogProduct/catalogProduct.html. There are some bugs. Here is a fixed version:
$client = new SoapClient('http://mywebsie.com/wp/store/api/soap/?wsdl');
// If some stuff requires api authentification,
// then get a session token
$session = $client->login('apiuser', 'apikey');
$newProductData = array(
'name' => 'Test product',
'websites' => array(1),
'short_description' => 'This is the short desc',
'description' => 'This is the long desc',
'price' => 150.00,
'status' => 1,
'tax_class_id' => 0,
'url_key' => 'product-url-key',
'url_path' => 'product-url-path',
'visibility' => '4',
);
$sku = 'Some unique sku';
$storeView = 1;
$attributeSetId = 4; // you can get this id from admin area
$productType = 'simple';
try {
// product creation
$client->call($session, 'catalog_product.create', array($productType, $attributeSetId, $sku, $newProductData, $storeView));
} catch (SoapFault $e) {
echo "Error in inserting product with sku $sku : " . $e->getMessage();
}

Answer 2

For Soap v2 this worked for me.
$client = new SoapClient('http://localhost/index.php/api/v2_soap/?wsdl'); // TODO : change url
$sessionId = $client->login('youruser', 'yourpasswd');
$attributeSets = $client->catalogProductAttributeSetList($sessionId);
$attributeSet = current($attributeSets);
$sku = 'COD002';
//catalogProductCreate( sessionId, type, setId, sku, productData, storeView )
try {
$result = $client->catalogProductCreate($sessionId, 'simple', $attributeSet->set_id, $sku, array(
'categories' => array(2),
'websites' => array(1),
'name' => 'producto de prueba',
'description' => 'Product description',
'short_description' => 'Product short description',
'weight' => '10',
'status' => '1',
'url_key' => 'product-url-key',
'url_path' => 'product-url-path',
'visibility' => '4',
'price' => '100',
'tax_class_id' => 1,
'meta_title' => 'Product meta title',
'meta_keyword' => 'Product meta keyword',
'meta_description' => 'Product meta description',
'stock_data' => array(
'qty' => '49',
'is_in_stock' => 1
)
),1);
$result2 = $client->catalogProductList($sessionId);
echo "<pre>";
print_r($result2);
echo "</pre>";
} catch (SoapFault $e) {
echo "Error in inserting product with sku $sku : " . $e->getMessage();
}