PHP Example using cURL with the v4 REST API to create multiple contacts using set_entries

REST_PHP_set_entries.php

<?php

$url = "http://{site_url}/service/v4/rest.php";
$username = "admin";
$password = "password";

//function to make cURL request
function call($method, $parameters, $url)
{
    ob_start();
    $curl_request = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);

    $jsonEncodedData = json_encode($parameters);

    $post = array(
         "method" => $method,
         "input_type" => "JSON",
         "response_type" => "JSON",
         "rest_data" => $jsonEncodedData
    );

    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
    $result = curl_exec($curl_request);
    curl_close($curl_request);

    $result = explode("\r\n\r\n", $result, 2);
    $response = json_decode($result[1]);
    ob_end_flush();

    return $response;
}

//login -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$login_parameters = array(
     "user_auth"=>array(
          "user_name"=>$username,
          "password"=>md5($password),
          "version"=>"1"
     ),
     "application_name"=>"RestTest",
     "name_value_list"=>array(),
);

$login_result = call("login", $login_parameters, $url);

/*
echo "<pre>";
print_r($login_result);
echo "</pre>";
*/

//get session id
$session_id = $login_result->id;

//create contacts -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$set_entries_parameters = array(
     //session id
     "session" => $session_id,

     //The name of the module from which to retrieve records.
     "module_name" => "Contacts",

     //Record attributes
     "name_value_list" => array(
         array(
            //to update a record, you will nee to pass in a record id as commented below
            //array("name" => "id", "value" => "912e58c0-73e9-9cb6-c84e-4ff34d62620e"),
            array("name" => "first_name", "value" => "John"),
            array("name" => "last_name", "value" => "Smith"),
         ),
         array(
            //to update a record, you will nee to pass in a record id as commented below
            //array("name" => "id", "value" => "99d6ddfd-7d52-d45b-eba8-4ff34d684964"),
            array("name" => "first_name", "value" => "Jane"),
            array("name" => "last_name", "value" => "Doe"),
         ),
     ),
);

$set_entries_result = call("set_entries", $set_entries_parameters, $url);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($set_entries_result);
echo "</pre>";

?>

result.txt

stdClass Object
(
    [ids] => Array
        (
            [0] => 912e58c0-73e9-9cb6-c84e-4ff34d62620e
            [1] => 99d6ddfd-7d52-d45b-eba8-4ff34d684964
        )

)