Magento PHP Developer's Guide - Second Edition

Extending the API

Now that we have a basic understanding of how to use the Magento Core API, we can proceed to extend and add our custom functionality. In order to add new API functionality, we have to modify/create the following files:

• wsdl.xml
• api.xml
• api.php

In order to make our registries accessible for third-party systems, we need to create and expose the following functions

• giftregistry_registry.list: This retrieves a list of all the registry IDs; it takes an optional customer ID parameter
• giftregistry_registry.info: This retrieves all the registry information; it takes a required registry_id parameter
• giftregistry_item.list: This retrieves a list of all the registry item IDs associated with a registry; it takes a required registry_id parameter ...