Knowledgebase

addcontact

Purpose

This command is used to create a new contact under an account.

Attributes

Optional Attributes

• firstname
• lastname
• companyname
• email - must be unique if creating a sub-account
• address1
• address2
• city
• state
• postcode
• country - two letter ISO country code
• phonenumber
• password2 - if creating a sub-account
• permissions - can specify sub-account permissions eg manageproducts,managedomains
• generalemails - set true to receive general email types
• productemails - set true to receive product related emails
• domainemails - set true to receive domain related emails
• invoiceemails - set true to receive billing related emails
• supportemails - set true to receive support ticket related emails

Example Command

$postfields = array();
$postfields["responsetype"] = "json";

$postfields["action"] = "addcontact";
$postfields["firstname"] = "Test";
$postfields["lastname"] = "User";
$postfields["email"] = "demo@whmcs.com";
$postfields["address1"] = "123 Demo Street";
$postfields["city"] = "Demo";
$postfields["state"] = "Florida";
$postfields["postcode"] = "AB123";
$postfields["country"] = "US";
$postfields["phonenumber"] = "123456789";

$result = mikrovps_SendCommand( $postfields );

Successful Response

result = success 
contactid =  xxx - the id of the new contact

Error Response

result=error
message= Client ID not found

Given Client ID is not found in the database.

result=error
message= Duplicate Email Address

Email address already exists in the database (when creating a sub-account)