Create record in salesforce lightning API curl/php

Question

I am trying to use the REST lightning API for salesforce. So far I can have it connect succesfully and get info on some things, however I am struggling to get it to actually create new records. Below is the code, I have excluding my connection code and getting my Bearer token, as both those work fine and don't impact the second half of creating a record.

<?php

             $url = $instance_url.'/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account/';
             $headers = array(

                'Content-Type: application/json'
            );

        $data = array(
            'Name' => "AccountHEX"

        );


            $ch2 = curl_init();

            curl_setopt($ch2,CURLOPT_URL, $url);

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($data));

            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

            curl_setopt($ch2,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

            curl_setopt($ch2,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

            $head = 'Authorization: Bearer '.$access_token;

            curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array($head));



            //execute post

            $result = null;

            $result = curl_exec($ch2);

             echo $result;

?>

The result I get seems to be just the info on the account object:

{
   "objectDescribe":{
      "activateable":false,
      "createable":true,
      "custom":false,
      "customSetting":false,
      "deletable":true,
      "deprecatedAndHidden":false,
      "feedEnabled":true,
      "keyPrefix":"001",
      "label":"Account",
      "labelPlural":"Accounts",
      "layoutable":true,
      "mergeable":true,
      "name":"Account",
      "queryable":true,
      "replicateable":true,
      "retrieveable":true,
      "searchable":true,
      "triggerable":true,
      "undeletable":true,
      "updateable":true,
      "urls":{
         "rowTemplate":"/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account/{ID}",
         "describe":"/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account/describe",
         "sobject":"/services/data/v20.0/sobjects/Account"
      }
   },
   "recentItems":[

   ]
}

So it is treating it more as a query rather than a creation. I have tried a couple different $data arrangments. Incluidng just doing name right away, and putting it inside the fields array.

Trying to do this bassed on this:

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/dome_sobject_create.htm

Any ideas how to get it to create the record?

David Reed David Reed · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-08T15:00:14

What you're receiving is the Account sObject describe, which is the return value for a GET request. You need to make a POST request to create the sObject.

Your body data does not need to be nested in a fields key. Your JSON should look like the example from the documentation,

{
  "Name" : "Express Logistics and Transport"
}

with all fields at the top level.

Lastly, API v20.0 is extremely old. I would recommend declaring the latest API version in your endpoint URL, v46.0. Using old API versions can result in unexpected behavior and in certain fields being unavailable to you.

Create record in salesforce lightning API curl/php

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