PHP Example using cURL with the v4 REST API to create a note with an attachement

REST_PHP_set_note_attachment.php

<?php

$url = "http://{site_url}/service/v4/rest.php";
$username = "admin";
$password = "password";

//function to make cURL request
function call($method, $parameters, $url)
{
    ob_start();
    $curl_request = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);

    $jsonEncodedData = json_encode($parameters);

    $post = array(
         "method" => $method,
         "input_type" => "JSON",
         "response_type" => "JSON",
         "rest_data" => $jsonEncodedData
    );

    curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
    $result = curl_exec($curl_request);
    curl_close($curl_request);

    $result = explode("\r\n\r\n", $result, 2);
    $response = json_decode($result[1]);
    ob_end_flush();

    return $response;
}

//login -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$login_parameters = array(
     "user_auth"=>array(
          "user_name"=>$username,
          "password"=>md5($password),
          "version"=>"1"
     ),
     "application_name"=>"RestTest",
     "name_value_list"=>array(),
);

$login_result = call("login", $login_parameters, $url);

/*
echo "<pre>";
print_r($login_result);
echo "</pre>";
*/

//get session id
$session_id = $login_result->id;

//create note -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$set_entry_parameters = array(
     //session id
     "session" => $session_id,

     //The name of the module
     "module_name" => "Notes",

     //Record attributes
     "name_value_list" => array(
          //to update a record, you will nee to pass in a record id as commented below
          //array("name" => "id", "value" => "9b170af9-3080-e22b-fbc1-4fea74def88f"),
          array("name" => "name", "value" => "Example Note"),
     ),
);

$set_entry_result = call("set_entry", $set_entry_parameters, $url);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($set_entry_result);
echo "</pre>";

$note_id = $set_entry_result->id;

//create note attachment -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$contents = file_get_contents ("/path/to/example_file.php");

$set_note_attachment_parameters = array(
    //session id
    "session" => $session_id,

    //The attachment details
    "note" => array(
        //The ID of the note containing the attachment.
        'id' => $note_id,

        //The file name of the attachment.
        'filename' => 'example_file.php',

        //The binary contents of the file.
        'file' => base64_encode($contents),
    ),
);

$set_note_attachment_result = call("set_note_attachment", $set_note_attachment_parameters, $url);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($set_note_attachment_result);
echo "</pre>";

?>

result.txt

//set_entry result
stdClass Object
(
    [id] => 72508938-db19-3b5c-b7a8-50abc7ec3fdb
    [entry_list] => stdClass Object
        (
            [name] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => name
                    [value] => Example Note
                )

        )

)

//set_note_attachment result
stdClass Object
(
    [id] => 72508938-db19-3b5c-b7a8-50abc7ec3fdb
)