Magento

Hello guys,
I am a developer and my company told me to learn the structure and the concept of Magento. I was told, because my company is specialized in developing complex eCommerce-solutions (mainly ERP-Data-Exchange via XML-Requests between eZ-publish and MS Navison/Dynamics or SAP).
Now my questions:

- is there a possibility to request the orderstatus from an external source, e.g. external PHP-File (maybe via SOAP or something)?
- if there is that possibility, is it even possible to modify orderstatus-data?

After a few hours of becoming acquainted with Magento and reading few topics in your forums, I found out, that there is a kind of API for miscellaneous opportunities, considering sales or products requests and modifications.

I already know, that the Magento-developers are emulous working on the stable final release of version 1.0 and finally writing a documentation also for the programming-interface. I am encouraged to get to know Magento more deeply, so my company may also offer solutions based on Magento in future.

Best regards,
Ryad

Hope this isnt considered butting in, but… I have used crx-loaded in the past and remember a contribution that included an .xml file that was used to update quantity and price for some products I had…

That would be a nice feature, if that is similar to what you are asking...the magento store owner could customize the xml structure…

Anyway, I suppose my reply was no help to you at all, so I apologize, just made me think of what a great addition that would be....

Later

Thanks for your answer.
But I cannot imagine, that I have the opportunity to change for example the quantity of a product by simply editing a XML-Tag, because Magento hold its data (e.g. inventory-qty) in its databasebackend.
Theoretically I could just connect to that database from my external source and editing the specified dataset, but that is not the professional way of solve such problems, because the whole program-environment and -cycle could be affected. Further more I need an independent way solving that problem, because I may add ERP-functionalities [*] in future.

I hope, maybe a Magentodeveloper could help me. A real information- and data-interchange-opportunity, e.g. based on SOAP-messages would be a great heap forward, as well for my occupation as for other developers.

( [*] for more information about that, pm me… )

Big thanks, looking forward to work with Magento and its future-features
Warm regards,
Ryad

I second that! A SOAP interface, or API that would allow developers to write own RPC interface would be great!

I read also about some API, but couldn’t find the code anywhere (Is it allready a part of Magento distribution?).

Currently I am trying to write an XML-RPC Module for adding/updating products, that would be triggered by an event (similar to cron.php). If I make it, I will write a tutorial on that subject.

Bojan

Hi guys,

my company is working on ERP and specially web service, for that we use python. now we are mapping category and export product by using xmlrpc and it working.

so i hope u used xmrpc is the best solution for that. but i have quesion in my mind. why database created by datatype
like catalog_category_int like.

what the reason behind it.

because for getting a single record i want to joing all tables.

and as per your problem i think xmlrpc is the best solution.