Category Product Update

Module: Mage_Catalog

The Mage_Catalog module allows you to manage categories and products.

Resource Name: catalog_category

Aliases:

category

Method:

catalog_category.updateProduct (SOAP V1)
catalogCategoryUpdateProduct (SOAP V2)

Allows you to update the product assigned to a category. The product position is updated.

Aliases:

category.updateProduct

Arguments:

Type	Name	Description
string	sessionId	Session ID
int	categoryId	ID of the category to which the product is assigned
string	productId	ID or SKU of the product to be updated
string	position	Position of the product in the category (optional)
string	identifierType	Defines whether the product ID or SKU is passed in the ‘product’ parameter

Returns:

Type	Description
boolean	True if the product is updated in the category

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, 'catalog_category.updateProduct', array('categoryId' => '4', 'product' => '1', 'position' => '3'));
var_dump($result);

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

Request Example SOAP V2

$proxy = new SoapClient('http://magentohost/api/v2_soap/?wsdl'); // TODO : change url
$sessionId = $proxy->login('apiUser', 'apiKey'); // TODO : change login and pwd if necessary

$result = $proxy->catalogCategoryUpdateProduct($sessionId, '4', '1', '3');
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->catalogCategoryUpdateProduct((object)array('sessionId' => $sessionId->result, 'categoryId' => '4', 'productId' => '1', 'position' => '3'));
var_dump($result->result);