How do I connect to external API from Magento - soap

Question

I am looking for some assistance in creating an API based module to push customer information out of Magento into a Third party loyalty program.
So far I have created a basic module but cannot find any good information on creating API based modules in Magento and could really do with some advice please...
I need to somehow hook into the Checkout success page in Magneto and add a form the will POST the customers information (name, address etc) to a third party loyalty program. I also need to be able to login to complete the billing information etc...
Does anyone know of any handy tutorials or documentation for such an implementation?
So far I have setup an API user with the appropriate roles. I have also created a very basic module for test purpses but browsing to the file I get a 404 error
apitest.php
<?php
$proxy = new SoapClient('http://mysite.com/api/?wsdl'); //edit the address and put the url to your magento here
$sessionId = $proxy->login('######', '#######'); // put in the info for your user here
echo "Login ID : $sessionId";
$result = $proxy->call($sessionId, 'Mymodule.testConnection', array('param1' => ' This string was sent from soap client'));
echo $result;
Objectmodel/api.php
<?php
class MyModule_MyModule_Model_ObjectModel_Api extends Mage_Api_Model_Resource_Abstract
{
public function testConnection($arg)
{
return "Hello World! My argument is : " . $arg;
}
}
I followed the example from here for getting a basic 'Hello world' module up and running if anyone could assist me with getting the correct setup I would be grateful

Answer 1

Instead of connect magento API you can create customer like this.
define('INCLUDE_PATH', '/var/www/QA/mojostage/app/');
define('INCLUDE_FILE', 'Mage.php');
Mage::app();
$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer');
$customer->setWebsiteId($wesite_id);
$customer->loadByEmail($customer_email);
/*
* Check if the email exist on the system.
* If YES, it will not create a user account.
*/
if (!$customer->getId()) {
//setting data such as email, firstname, lastname, and password
$customer->setEmail($customer_email);
$customer->setTaxvat($value['cus_vatnumber'])
->setCreatedAt($date1)
->setDob($value['date_of_birth'])
->setGroupId($cus_group_id)
->setConfirmation($is_active)
->setCreatedIn('Admin')
->setStoreId($store_id)
->setWebsiteId($wesite_id)
->setEntityId($value['cus_id']);
$customer->setFirstname($customer_fname);
$customer->setLastname($customer_lname);
$customer->setPassword($value['password']);
$subscriber = Mage::getModel('newsletter/subscriber');
$subscriber->setStoreId($store_id)
->setCustomerId($value['cus_id'])
->setSubscriberEmail($customer_email)
->setSubscriberStatus($value['cus_spam'])
->setSubscriberConfirmCode($subscriber->randomSequence());
}
//the save the data and send the new account email.
$customer->save();
$subscriber->save();