Sample Code to Perform Insert, Update and Read Operation on Lead Module of Zoho through Zoho API

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<?php

 $username = "";
 $password = "";
 $param = "SCOPE=ZohoCRM/crmapi&EMAIL_ID=".$username."&PASSWORD=".$password;
 
 $ch = curl_init("https://accounts.zoho.com/apiauthtoken/nb/create");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $param);
 $result = curl_exec($ch);
 
 $anArray = explode("\n",$result);
 $authToken = explode("=",$anArray['2']);

 curl_close($ch);
 
 $param = "authtoken=".$authToken['1']."&scope=crmapi&newFormat=1&xmlData=";
 
 $param .= '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Leads><row no="1"><FL val="Lead Source">Web Download</FL><FL val="Company">Your Company</FL><FL val="First Name">Hannah</FL><FL val="Last Name">Smith</FL><FL val="Email">testing@testing.com</FL><FL val="Title">Manager</FL><FL val="Phone">1234567890</FL><FL val="Home Phone">0987654321</FL><FL val="Other Phone">1212211212</FL><FL val="Fax">02927272626</FL><FL val="Mobile">292827622</FL></row></Leads>';
 
 $ch = curl_init("https://crm.zoho.com/crm/private/json/Leads/insertRecords");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $param);
 $result = curl_exec($ch);
 
 $result = json_decode($result, true);
 
 $recordId = $result['response']['result']['recorddetail']['FL'][0]['content'];
 
 $param = "authtoken=".$authToken['1']."&scope=crmapi&id=$recordId&xmlData=";
 
 $param .= '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Leads><row no="1"><FL val="Lead Source">Web Download</FL><FL val="Company">Your Company</FL><FL val="First Name">Hannah</FL><FL val="Last Name">Smith</FL><FL val="Email">manish@devitechnosolutions.com</FL><FL val="Title">Manager</FL><FL val="Phone">1234567890</FL><FL val="Home Phone">0987654321</FL><FL val="Other Phone">1212211212</FL><FL val="Fax">02927272626</FL><FL val="Mobile">292827622</FL></row></Leads>';
 
 $ch = curl_init("https://crm.zoho.com/crm/private/json/Leads/updateRecords");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $param);
 $result = curl_exec($ch);
 
 $param = "newFormat=1&authtoken=".$authToken['1']."&scope=crmapi";
 
 $ch = curl_init("https://crm.zoho.com/crm/private/json/Leads/getRecords");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $param);
 $result = curl_exec($ch);
 
 print_r($result);

 
?>