Customer Update

Module: Mage_Customer

Resource: customer

Method:

customer.update (SOAP V1)
customerCustomerUpdate (SOAP V2)

Update information about the required customer. Note that you need to pass only those arguments which you want to be updated.

Arguments:

Type	Name	Description
string	sessionId	Session ID
int	customerId	Customer ID
array	customerData	Array of customerCustomerEntityToCreate

Returns:

Type	Description
boolean	True if the customer is updated

The customerCustomerEntityToCreate content is as follows:

Type	Name	Description
int	customer_id	Customer ID
string	email	Customer email
string	firstname	Customer first name
string	lastname	Customer last name
string	password	Customer password
int	group_id	Group ID
string	prefix	Customer prefix
string	suffix	Customer suffix
string	dob	Customer date of birth
string	taxvat	Customer tax/VAT number
int	gender	Customer gender: 1 - Male, 2 - Female
string	middlename	Customer middle name/initial

Examples

Request Example SOAP V1

		$client = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/soap/?wsdl');

// If somestuff requires API authentication,
// then get a session token
$session = $client->login('apiUser', 'apiKey');

$result = $client->call($session, 'customer.update', array('customerId' => '2', 'customerData' => array('firstname' => 'John', 'lastname' => 'Doe', 'email' => 'test@example.com', 'password' => 'john22')));
var_dump ($result);

// If you don't need the session anymore
//$client->endSession($session);
		

Request Example SOAP V2

		$client = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/v2_soap/?wsdl');

// If some stuff requires API authentication,
// then get a session token
$session = $client->login('apiUser', 'apiKey');
$result = $client->customerCustomerUpdate($session, '2', array('email' => 'customer-mail@example.org', 'firstname' => 'Dough', 'lastname' => 'Deekson', 'password' => 'password', 'website_id' => 1, 'store_id' => 1, 'group_id' => 1));

var_dump ($result);
		

Request Example SOAP V2 (WS-I Compliance Mode)

		$proxy = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/v2_soap/?wsdl'); 

$sessionId = $proxy->login((object)array('username' => 'apiUser', 'apiKey' => 'apiKey')); 
 
$result = $proxy->customerCustomerUpdate((object)array('sessionId' => $sessionId->result, 'customerId' => '2', 'customerData' =>  ((object)array(
'email' => 'customer-mail@example.org',
'firstname' => 'Dough',
'lastname' => 'Deekson'
))));   
var_dump($result->result);
		

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