There was a comment a couple of days ago about CJ WebService Version 2. I did get this to work. I found some good code another programmer put together that access the v2 WSDL. Basically, this is my API test script, so you need to manually add your keywords and advertiser ID in the code, but it’s a proof of concept. I think I’ve abandoned the CJ API. I personally think it’s not that consistent. I often get ‘internal server error’ in the response XML. I think it might be a riskier move to go version 2 for real time calls.. just my two cents.
This version needs PHP5 with SOAP services built into PHP (–enable-soap). Also it’s using try/catch for handling SOAP exception and it’s only available in PHP5.
As I mentioned above, I’m pretty much ditching CJ web services all together. I still use eBay’s API, but CJ’s seems a little off for me. I’m doing initial tests with CJ Data Feeds now, and this really appears to be the direction I need to go.
try {
$ini = ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled","0");
$client = new SoapClient(‘productSearchServiceV2.wsdl’, array(‘trace’=> true));
$results = $client->search(
$developerKey = ‘yourlongdevkey’,
$websiteId = ’0000000′,
$advertiserIds = ’0000001′,
$keywords = ‘your keywords’,
$serviceableArea = ”,
$isbn = ”,
$upc = ”,
$manufacturerName = ”,
$manufacturerSku = ”,
$advertiserSku = ”,
$lowPrice = ”,
$highPrice = ’50′,
$lowSalePrice = ”,
$highSalePrice = ”,
$currency = ”,
$sortBy = ”,
$SortOrder = ”,
$startAt = 0,
$maxResults = 100
);
// DEBUG
echo "<h3>Your search for ‘$keywords’ generated $results->count results</h3>";
foreach ($results->products as $product) {
if(strlen(trim($product->imageUrl)) > 0){
$price = sprintf(‘%01.2f’, $product->price);
echo "<br>".$product->advertiserId."<br>";
echo "<br>SKU:".$product->sku."<br>";
echo "<a href=’$product->buyUrl’><img src =’$product->imageUrl’ height=’70′ ><p>$product->name <br/> Offered by $product->advertiserName($product->advertiserId) at <b>$price ($product->currency)</b></p></a>";
}
}
} catch (Exception $e){
echo "<div id=’error’><p>There was an error with your request or the service is unavailable.</p></div>";
print_r ($e);
}
?>
You can download productSearchServiceV2.wsdl here.
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Hello
This is untested.. but should work. You can take some snippets of code from this tutorial:
http://www.money-code.com/node/23
It uses the nusoap class. You can google for more information on that class. You would need to remove the try/catch handling and use nusoap instead of using PHP5′s built in SOAP object. You might have to tweak with nusoap a bit, but overall it should just ‘work’.
Hope this helps.
hanji
Does this list products based on keywords? What exactly does it do?
Yes, this will return products from CJ based off of keywords AND advertisers.
How to build it in php4?
Can you tell me?
Right now my hosting use php5,
I have already used your code above but get error :
Fatal error: Class ‘SoapClient’ not found in /home/airbase/public_html/trycj.php on line 4
What wrong with that?
Thanks for your help.
Hans
That’s a bummer. It looks like your hosting provider does not have PHP5 built with SOAP. You can verify this by creating a test script to get phpinfo()…
< ?php
phpinfo();
?>
You need to have –enable-soap listed in the Configure Command block at the top. You might be able to request this, but it would involve recompiling PHP on the server. Here is a link about PHP/SOAP:
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ref.soap.php
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() on line 15. I used your code exactly (of course with my account details). And I used the Porduct search wsdl from CJ.
Looks like the return value for the foreach was NOT an array. I would var_dump() the return from the web service. My example doesn’t have error to catch that. It might be a string returning a error code or statement back from CJ.
hanji
Hi, im using the code just like u mentioned. But instead, i got this error:
There was an error with your request or the service is unavailable.
SoapFault Object ( [message:protected] => Fault: java.lang.ClassCastException
……..
……..
…….
[faultstring] => Fault: java.lang.ClassCastException [faultcode] => soap:Server )
any idea what’s going on? is it error in server side?
Hello
That error is definitely server side. That’s the response from the web server. The error is possibly instantiated from your end. I think CJ doesn’t do a good job with catching and explaining some of those errors.
My guess it’s a value that you’re passing ‘cast’ is when you have one data type (ie: string) and try to change it into a different data type (ie: number). That could possible be the error.. not sure.
You may want to post this error on the CJ Developer forum.. good people there. They should be able to get specific about this particular error. I’m not a big fan of the CJ API, seems to have glitch exceptions.. I go with the datafeed now.. works 100% of the time.
hanji
I’m looking for a developer that has experience working with these APIs. We’re looking to have a custom application built that merges into our system. Please let me know if you know of any developer interested.
Kindest regards,
Stephen
Weird. The buyURL should be there. I would see if you can do a var_dump on the return object and see what’s up. It could be related to how you’re reaching down to it, or some other issue. Are you seeing any PHP NOTICE warnings in your logs when you execute.
Live I’ve mentioned in the past, CJ’s API seems a bit flaky to me. I’ve definitely run into weird things, and don’t really mess with it any more. I much more prefer the datafeeds or using PopShops.
On your decode question. I would say if it’s encoded when you echo it, I would decode it.
Thanks!
hanji
Hello,
Can you please explain what this Advertiser ID is, and also mention where I can find this ID for each Advertiser.
Thanks in advance.
It definitely works. Thanks a million…I have been beating my head against the wall for a week trying to get it to work and then I found this by a simple google search. Thanks again.
Hi there,
I ‘m just wondering whether anyone know how to use CJ web services in classic ASP.
Please mail me the code, thank you
This should not be a problem. You’ll just need to translate code from PHP to ASP, etc to get this to work. The challenging areas will be finding the objects to connect to the service. Using the results should be easy with FileSystem objects. I think you’d need the http connector.. it’s been a million years since I worked in ASP.
Hi,
First of all, thanks for this code snippet – saved me a lot of time to build a script that does searches products for 100 keywords and downloads the product data. 2 issues (the rest of the response fields can be output on the browser or written to file successfully) –
1) The buyURL is returning as blank – is this a known CJ issue, or is something wrong in my script? I cannot sell these products without this parameter, so how do i get it if CJ is not populating it?
2) Do i need to do a utf8_decode on URLs (which may have special characters such as /, :, &, ?, .) before i can write it to a file or display it on the browser?
thanks
kiran
SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL
and if I go directly to CJ SOAP, it said
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()