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Sharing Time: Consuming Infusionsoft XML-RPC API with Coldfusion
Author: Dave Harding
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/xml/thread.cfm/threadid:108#235
My God! This took me ages to figure out, alas, my ColdFusion app is now very
smoothly interfacing with the Infusionsoft api. I'm sure to a lot of you, this is
so easy that you would never think to post about it, but in my searches I found a
LOT of other CF developers confused about how to do this, seemingly without
resolution. Weary CF Googlers, may your infusionsoft/CF searches end here. Of
course, like most things this turned out to be VERY simple, but without having
any clue where to begin, it was agonizing.
[TO SEE THE SAMPLE AND SKIP THE INSTRUCTION, JUMP TO THE BOTTOM]
********** THE GOAL **********
A client of mine wants their website sign-up process to insert the contact
information collected by the sign-up form into their Infusionsoft contact list.
After it has been inserted into the contact list, they either want to add that
contact to a group, or tag it.
********** THE PROBLEM *******
To my dismay, although the infusionsoft API instructions (http://developers.infusionsoft.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
have sample links for php, .net (c# and vb), java, and ColdFusion, the ColdFusion
Samples read: "We need a Cold Fusion Sample to place here." Ugh. Not the first
time I've seen that. Um, yeah, all of the other sample links had actual samples,
but nones for CF... That will change very soon.
********** THE SOLUTION ******
For my example, I'm going to use the ContactService.add method, however you could
use this same solution with any InfusionSoft API method as long as you use the
proper name/value params.
Step 1 - Write up your XMLRPC structure or download XMLRPC.CFC, which will allow
you to convert an array to XMLRPC. http://support.journurl.com/users/admin/index.cfm?mode=article&entry=938.
Step 2 - Create an array. The first value of the array will be the InfusionSoft
API method name you are calling (ie. "ContactService.add"). The second value of
the array will be a struct containing the contact params. Since we are dealing
with XML here, its best to assign your struct values like "<cfset
myStruct["FieldName"] = ''>" as opposed to "<cfset
mystruct.FieldName=''>", as the latter will clobber your case sensitivity.
Step 3 - Convert your array to XMLRPC using XMLRPC.cfc
Step 4 - Make the call to the Infusionsoft API:
Step 5 - Convert myResult to CMFL using XMLRPC.cfc
SAMPLE:
<!--- XMLRPC.CFC can be downloaded at: http://support.journurl.com/users/admin/index.cfm?mode=article&entry=938
--->
<cfobject component="xmlrpc" name="cfc.xmlrpc">
<cfset myArray = ArrayNew(1)>
<!--- The method name --->
<cfset myArray[1] = 'ContactService.add'>
<!--- Your Infusionsoft API Key --->
<cfset myArray[2] = '13643d3c8910057ce07623ed01bb22b2'>
<!--- Setup the contact data --->
<cfset contactData["FirstName"]='Davey'>
<cfset contactData["LastName"]='Harding'>
<cfset contactData["Email"]='davey@bogusemail.com'>
<!--- Add the contactData struct to the array --->
<cfset myArray[3] = contactData>
<!--- Convert the CFML array to XMLRPC --->
<cfset xmlString = cfc.xmlrpc.CFML2XMLRPC(myArray)>
<cfhttp method="post" url="https://mach2.infusionsoft.com/api/xmlrpc"
result="myResult" >
<cfhttpparam type="xml" value="#xmlString#">
</cfhttp>
<!--- Convert the result from XMLRPC to CFML --->
<cfset myCFMLResult = cfc.xmlrpc.XMLRPC2CFML(myResult.fileContent)>
<!--- ENJOY A DELICIOUS GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE--->
<cfdump var="#myCFMLResult#">
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May 25, 2012
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