How to Create 'Place an Order API' in Magento

Magento provides a number of web services to ease the life of programmers and users. You will find web services for adding, deleting, listing, editing of products, customers, shipments etc. But Magento lacks a very important web service- Placing Orders. Magento says that it is due to security reasons so that a hacker does not break into your site and place unwanted orders. But no worries, I have found a way out, a simple one. I have developed the web service for placing an order in Magento.

Open the file: app\code\core\Mage\Sales\etc\api.xml
Here search for methods tag inside sales_order parent tag an add the folloeing lines to it

<place translate="title" module="sales">
  <title>Place order</title>
  <acl>sales/order/change</acl>
 </place>

so that the sales_order enclosure looks like:

<config>
    <api>
        <resources>
            <sales_order translate="title" module="sales">
                <model>sales/order_api</model>
                <title>Order API</title>
                <acl>sales/order</acl>
                <methods>
                    <list translate="title" module="sales">
                        <title>Retrieve list of orders by filters</title>
                        <method>items</method>
                        <acl>sales/order/info</acl>
                    </list>
                    <info translate="title" module="sales">
                        <title>Retrieve order information</title>
                        <acl>sales/order/info</acl>
                    </info>
                    <addComment translate="title" module="sales">
                        <title>Add comment to order</title>
                        <acl>sales/order/change</acl>
                    </addComment>
                    <hold translate="title" module="sales">
                        <title>Hold order</title>
                        <acl>sales/order/change</acl>
                    </hold>
                    <unhold translate="title" module="sales">
                        <title>Unhold order</title>
                        <acl>sales/order/change</acl>
                    </unhold>
                    <cancel translate="title" module="sales">
                        <title>Cancel order</title>
                        <acl>sales/order/change</acl>
                    </cancel>
                    <place translate="title" module="sales">
                        <title>Place order</title>
                        <acl>sales/order/change</acl>
                    </place>
                </methods>
   

Now go to the file: app\code\core\Mage\Sales\Model\Order\Api.php
Here at last add the following function:

public function place()
 {
  $customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')->load($customerId);/*$customerId is the id of the customer who is placing the order, it can be passed as an argument to the function place()*/
 
  $transaction = Mage::getModel('core/resource_transaction');
  $storeId = $customer->getStoreId();
  $reservedOrderId = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')->getEntityType('order')->fetchNewIncrementId($storeId);
 
  $order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')
  ->setIncrementId($reservedOrderId)
  ->setStoreId($storeId)
  ->setQuoteId(0)
  ->setGlobal_currency_code('USD')
  ->setBase_currency_code('USD')
  ->setStore_currency_code('USD')
  ->setOrder_currency_code('USD');
 
  // set Customer data
  $order->setCustomer_email($customer->getEmail())
  ->setCustomerFirstname($customer->getFirstname())
  ->setCustomerLastname($customer->getLastname())
  ->setCustomerGroupId($customer->getGroupId())
  ->setCustomer_is_guest(0)
  ->setCustomer($customer);
 
  // set Billing Address
  $billing = $customer->getDefaultBillingAddress();
  $billingAddress = Mage::getModel('sales/order_address')
  ->setStoreId($storeId)
  ->setAddressType(Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Address::TYPE_BILLING)
  ->setCustomerId($customer->getId())
  ->setCustomerAddressId($customer->getDefaultBilling())
  ->setCustomer_address_id($billing->getEntityId())
  ->setPrefix($billing->getPrefix())
  ->setFirstname($billing->getFirstname())
  ->setMiddlename($billing->getMiddlename())
  ->setLastname($billing->getLastname())
  ->setSuffix($billing->getSuffix())
  ->setCompany($billing->getCompany())
  ->setStreet($billing->getStreet())
  ->setCity($billing->getCity())
  ->setCountry_id($billing->getCountryId())
  ->setRegion($billing->getRegion())
  ->setRegion_id($billing->getRegionId())
  ->setPostcode($billing->getPostcode())
  ->setTelephone($billing->getTelephone())
  ->setFax($billing->getFax());
  $order->setBillingAddress($billingAddress);
 
  $shipping = $customer->getDefaultShippingAddress();
  $shippingAddress = Mage::getModel('sales/order_address')
  ->setStoreId($storeId)
  ->setAddressType(Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Address::TYPE_SHIPPING)
  ->setCustomerId($customer->getId())
  ->setCustomerAddressId($customer->getDefaultShipping())
  ->setCustomer_address_id($shipping->getEntityId())
  ->setPrefix($shipping->getPrefix())
  ->setFirstname($shipping->getFirstname())
  ->setMiddlename($shipping->getMiddlename())
  ->setLastname($shipping->getLastname())
  ->setSuffix($shipping->getSuffix())
  ->setCompany($shipping->getCompany())
  ->setStreet($shipping->getStreet())
  ->setCity($shipping->getCity())
  ->setCountry_id($shipping->getCountryId())
  ->setRegion($shipping->getRegion())
  ->setRegion_id($shipping->getRegionId())
  ->setPostcode($shipping->getPostcode())
  ->setTelephone($shipping->getTelephone())
  ->setFax($shipping->getFax());
 
  $order->setShippingAddress($shippingAddress)
  ->setShipping_method('flatrate_flatrate')
  ->setShippingDescription('flatrate');
 
  $orderPayment = Mage::getModel('sales/order_payment')
  ->setStoreId($storeId)
  ->setCustomerPaymentId(0)
  ->setMethod('purchaseorder')
  ->setPo_number(' - ');
  $order->setPayment($orderPayment);
 
  // let say, we have 2 products
  $subTotal = 0;
  $products = array('1' => array('qty' => 1),'2'=>array('qty' => 3));
  foreach ($products as $productId=>$product) {
  $_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);
  $rowTotal = $_product->getPrice() * $product['qty'];
  $orderItem = Mage::getModel('sales/order_item')
  ->setStoreId($storeId)
  ->setQuoteItemId(0)
  ->setQuoteParentItemId(NULL)
  ->setProductId($productId)
  ->setProductType($_product->getTypeId())
  ->setQtyBackordered(NULL)
  ->setTotalQtyOrdered($product['rqty'])
  ->setQtyOrdered($product['qty'])
  ->setName($_product->getName())
  ->setSku($_product->getSku())
  ->setPrice($_product->getPrice())
  ->setBasePrice($_product->getPrice())
  ->setOriginalPrice($_product->getPrice())
  ->setRowTotal($rowTotal)
  ->setBaseRowTotal($rowTotal);
 
  $subTotal += $rowTotal;
  $order->addItem($orderItem);
  }
 
  $order->setSubtotal($subTotal)
  ->setBaseSubtotal($subTotal)
  ->setGrandTotal($subTotal)
  ->setBaseGrandTotal($subTotal);
 
  $transaction->addObject($order);
  $transaction->addCommitCallback(array($order, 'place'));
  $transaction->addCommitCallback(array($order, 'save'));
  $transaction->save();
 }

Now our web service is ready to use. Lets call the service to place an order:

<?php
 define('WSDL_URL', 'http://example.com:/api/soap/?wsdl');
 define('WSDL_USER', 'user');
 define('WSDL_KEY', 'password');
 
try {
  $proxy = new SoapClient(WSDL_URL);    //call magento API 
  $sessionId = $proxy->login(WSDL_USER, WSDL_KEY);//check Valid API Authentications 
   $proxy->call($sessionId, 'sales_order.place');
  echo "Order Placed Successfully!";
 }
catch (Exception $e) 
 {
  echo 'Error in order invoice web service: '.$e->getMessage();
  exit;
 }
?>

And it is all to place an order through web service!

Hope it Helps... Thanks....