PHP ActiveX Dynamics CRM: Create a Phone Call

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Creates a phone call record regarding the Fourth Coffee account (b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200), regarding the "Faulty product catalog" incident (c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8), from the system user Allie Bellew (832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4), to the contact Gabriele Cannata (57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200). A successful response is indicated by a 204 response status code with no response body.

Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customer-engagement/web-api/phonecall?view=dynamics-ce-odata-9

CURL Command

curl -X POST https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
  -H "OData-MaxVersion: 4.0"  \
  -H "OData-Version: 4.0" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "subject": "Sample Phone Call 123",
    "phonenumber": "3125551920",
    "description": "Sample phone call created using the Chilkat Rest API",
    "scheduledend": "2018-04-29T11:56:21Z",
    "regardingobjectid_account@odata.bind": "/accounts(b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)",
    "actualdurationminutes": 25,
    "directioncode": true,
    "phonecall_activity_parties": [
        {   "partyid_systemuser@odata.bind": "/systemusers(832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4)",
            "participationtypemask": 1 },
        {   "partyid_contact@odata.bind": "/contacts(57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)",
            "participationtypemask": 2 },
        {   "partyid_incident@odata.bind": "/incidents(c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8)",
            "participationtypemask": 8 }
    ]
}'

PHP ActiveX Example

<?php

$rest = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.Rest");

//  URL: https://my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect('my-dynamics-domain.api.crm.dynamics.com',$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != 1) {
    print 'ConnectFailReason: ' . $rest->ConnectFailReason . "\n";
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$json = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject");
$json->UpdateString('subject','Sample Phone Call 123');
$json->UpdateString('phonenumber','3125551920');
$json->UpdateString('description','Sample phone call created using the Chilkat Rest API');
$json->UpdateString('scheduledend','2018-04-29T11:56:21Z');
$json->UpdateString('\'regardingobjectid_account@odata.bind\'','/accounts(b6a19cdd-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)');
$json->UpdateNumber('actualdurationminutes','25');
$json->UpdateBool('directioncode',1);
$json->UpdateString('phonecall_activity_parties[0].\'partyid_systemuser@odata.bind\'','/systemusers(832698d1-b86a-47b5-a9a3-0cc710eb22e4)');
$json->UpdateNumber('phonecall_activity_parties[0].participationtypemask','1');
$json->UpdateString('phonecall_activity_parties[1].\'partyid_contact@odata.bind\'','/contacts(57a0e5b9-88df-e311-b8e5-6c3be5a8b200)');
$json->UpdateNumber('phonecall_activity_parties[1].participationtypemask','2');
$json->UpdateString('phonecall_activity_parties[2].\'partyid_incident@odata.bind\'','/incidents(c49e62a8-90df-e311-9565-a45d36fc5fe8)');
$json->UpdateNumber('phonecall_activity_parties[2].participationtypemask','8');

$rest->AddHeader('Content-Type','application/json; charset=utf-8');
$rest->AddHeader('OData-Version','4.0');
$rest->AddHeader('Accept','application/json');
$rest->AddHeader('OData-MaxVersion','4.0');
$rest->AddHeader('Authorization','Bearer DYNAMICS_CRM_ACCESS_TOKEN');

$sbRequestBody = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder");
$json->EmitSb($sbRequestBody);
$sbResponseBody = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder");
$success = $rest->FullRequestSb('POST','/api/data/v9.0/phonecalls',$sbRequestBody,$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$respStatusCode = $rest->ResponseStatusCode;
if ($respStatusCode >= 400) {
    print 'Response Status Code = ' . $respStatusCode . "\n";
    print 'Response Header:' . "\n";
    print $rest->ResponseHeader . "\n";
    print 'Response Body:' . "\n";
    print $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\n";
    exit;
}


?>