Creating a new user with the Rest API - Affiliate

Hi

I have an affiliate auto-creating users on my members system (indirectly, via our application API).

What we want to do is identify if the user is new to us and if so, assign their affiliate id to that user.

We are following the guide to adding a user via API here: http://www.amember.com/docs/REST_API_examples

A few questions
1 - If the user already exists - will it be updated or will it be ignored? We prefer to ignore an existing user.
2 - Can we add the affiliate id to any newly created customers? If so - how do we do that? Which columns would we need to populate & what is the right data?

Many thanks

Peter

Thanks Caesar

I am struggling with that. I think I did what you said....

PHP:

 public function CreateUser($empUsername,$empPassword,$empEmail,$empFirstName,$empLastName,$compUsername){
    
        Log::info('create user '.$empUsername." Affiliate ".$compUsername);
        $url        = $this->member_url_api.'users';
        $key        = self::$AUTH_KEY;
        $fields = array(
            '_key'      => $key,
            'login'     => $empUsername,
            'pass'      => $empPassword,
            'email'     => $empEmail,
            'name_f'    => $empFirstName,
            'name_l'    => $empLastName,
            'aff_id'    => $compUsername,
        );
       
        // Register new user to aMembersystem with REST API.
        $query = http_build_query($fields);
        $query = str_replace("%40", "@", $query);

        $header = array("Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        //open connection
        $ch = curl_init();
        //set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $query);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

        //execute post
        $result = curl_exec($ch);
        //close connection
        curl_close($ch);

        $jsonData = json_decode($result,true);
        if($jsonData){
         $content =  array_values($jsonData)[0];
          if(is_array($content)){
            return 'useradded';
          }
        }else{
           return 'apinotworking';
        }
    }

As you can see there's a log at the top. I ran it, the user got created perfectly but without an assigned affiliate.

[2019-06-05 15:46:34] local.INFO: create user Test3001 Affiliate JigsawTrading

User "JigsawTrading" is an assigned affiliate but the referred Affiliate is still empty



Any ideas what is wrong?

Cheers

Pete

Got it - works a treat! Thanks!