Error When Trying To Create Contact with PHP SDK

API Q&A
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I have been working with the PHP SDK to connect to the API and create a contact. I have managed to successfully authenticate and get a token just fine. However, I haven’t been able to figure out why I can’t successfully create a contact. I’ve looked over the API documentation quite a bit, and I’m just not sure where I’m going wrong.

Assuming I’ve got the authentication working properly and I’m setting the token on my instantiated $infusionsoft object, here is the code I’m using to try and create a contact:

$contact = array(
	'email_addresses' => array(
		'email' => 'test@test.com',
		'field' => 'EMAIL1'
	),
	'given_name' => 'John',
	'family_name' => 'Doe',
	'phone_numbers' => array(
		'field' => 'PHONE1', 
		'number' => '123-123-1234'
	)
);

$infusionsoft->contacts()->create($contact);

And here is the error I’m getting (I cleared out the access token - the actual value is correct):

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Infusionsoft\Http\HttpException’ with message 'exception ‘GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException’ with message 'Client error: POST https://api.infusionsoft.com/crm/rest/v1/contacts/?access_token=###### resulted in a 400 Bad Request response: {“message”:“Input could not be converted to a valid request”} ’ in /home/deedclai/public_html/dev/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Exception/RequestException.php:113 Stack trace: #0 /home/deedclai/public_html/dev/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Middleware.php(65): GuzzleHttp\Exception\RequestException::create(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Request), Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Response)) #1 /home/deedclai/public_html/dev/vendor/guzzlehttp/promises/src/Promise.php(203): GuzzleHttp\Middleware::GuzzleHttp{closure}(Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Response)) #2 /home/deedclai/public_html/dev/vendor/guzzlehttp/promises/src/Promise.php(156): GuzzleHttp\Promise\Promise::callHandler(1, Object(GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Response), Array) #3 /home/deedclai/public_html/dev/vendor/gu in /home/deedclai/public_html/dev/vendor/infusionsoft/php-sdk/src/Infusionsoft/Http/GuzzleHttpClient.php on line 77

I have tried numerous other ways to pass in data, and different versions of data to the create() call, but I get the same error every time. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Thank you,

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Hi @Jer_Fortenberry, I’m not extremely familiar with PHP but I think I may know your issue. The email_addresses and phone_numbers properties take an array of objects, each representing a different field or set of fields. I think you need to wrap your objects in one more array() like this.

$contact = array(
	'email_addresses' => array(
		array(
			'email' => 'test@test.com',
			'field' => 'EMAIL1'
		)
	),
	'given_name' => 'John',
	'family_name' => 'Doe',
	'phone_numbers' => array(
		array(
			'field' => 'PHONE1', 
			'number' => '123-123-1234'
		)
	)
);
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@Nicholas_Trecina - Awesome. That worked. About the same time you replied to this, the folks on GitHub who manage the PHP SDK also responded and gave me another option to add in generic objects as well - but I like sticking with a pure array better. So, I tested this out and verify that it works properly.

Thank you!