LornaJane

Accessing the Magento Web API

Tuesday, May 4. 2010

I've been working with the Magento Web API lately, and the first problem I ran into was actually getting access to it. Contrary to its reputation, I found some perfectly good documentation outlining how to connect to the service and use it. I thought I was on to a winner but I kept seeing:
Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [2] Access denied.

Further investigation led me to this forum post - web services are separate users and you must first set them up through the admin screens - and make sure also to allocate roles to them.

The slight pitfall at this point is that you create a username and an API key - these then become the apiUser and apiKey variables mentioned in the documentation. The key is basically a password, its starred out in the settings and you have to enter it twice. Now I know that, I can log in to my service! Hope this helps someone else get to the point faster than I did.
Posted by LornaJane in php at 07:59 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)
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"contrary to its reputation" LOL... you have not passed the river yet but just playing with the API. that reputation is very well deserved

#1 valugi (Homepage) on 2010-05-06 15:28 (Reply)

valugi: oh dear … that’s sort of what I feared :) I did think it was less bad than I had been lead to expect though!

#2 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2010-05-06 19:57 (Reply)

YES thank you! After rather complex thoughts I read your post and simply set the user role. HAH!

#3 Joop (Homepage) on 2010-08-12 09:05 (Reply)

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Tyrone about PHP5 Soap Server
Thu, 02.09.2010 14:14
Hi Lorna Jane, Thanks for all this – the info on PHP and Soap on the Net is a total mess. Some choosing to to use nusoap.php – which now doesnt even exist anymore. Great work using this method I was up and running very quickly. However – this method only shows a call passing one paramet [...]
LornaJane about Wordpress Automatic Update Asking for FTP
Wed, 01.09.2010 13:03
Thanks so much to everyone that has dropped in and said that this tip is working for them – I had to refer back to this myself the other day to remind me how to get around the FTP prompt!
sherra about Wordpress Automatic Update Asking for FTP
Fri, 27.08.2010 04:17
great insight. thank you. I moved my blog and forgot what I needed to do to avoid ftp. your suggestion works like a charm.
Carl Nobile about Logrotate Error on Ubuntu
Fri, 27.08.2010 00:16
This issue seems to happen when you move a DB from one machine to another as I did. The procedure you describe above should be put into MySQL documentation. You should put in a bug report to the MySQL people as their documentation needs to updated. And yes the PASSWORD parameter needs to be re [...]
Rudger Gravestein about One-Step Symlink Switch
Mon, 23.08.2010 09:19
i also move the current, so in case of non working result, i can easily move it back. mv -fT current fallback; mv -fT next current;
Anon about One-Step Symlink Switch
Sun, 22.08.2010 19:43
This is a convenient way to upgrade, and is certainly a good thing for development / testing environments. On a busy site there might be a slim risk this technique could be problematic. Although the file system is updated in an atomic transaction, a web browser could still read from both the [...]
Les about Working with Web Services - Froscon 2010
Sun, 22.08.2010 17:35
Once more you shine girl yer its true you’re a PHP babe :D
Edmar about One-Step Symlink Switch
Sat, 21.08.2010 20:17
Nice to see a post about this. :-) 100% of our deploys are done using symlinks. We copy our releases into revision-specific folders (which are rev123, rev124, etc.). Deploy is done using: cd /software-revisions-folder ln -sf rev124 current To revert: ln -sf rev123 current Thi [...]
Deep C about One-Step Symlink Switch
Fri, 20.08.2010 19:09
This is very interesting and helpful tip. I just felt its quite similar to adding a new node to link list in C and moving pointer to next :)