PHP QuickBooks Desktop Customer Query

Question

I have been using [quickbooks-php][1] library by the Consolibyte. I wanted to log in the Customer Query Result in a file named CustomerQuery.txt but the messages I am getting as follows-

Version:
Not provided by service

Message:
No data exchange required

Description:
No data to exchange for this application. Job ending.

and here is the PHP code-

<?php
    error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
    ini_set('display_errors', true);

    require_once('config.php');
    require_once($QuickBooksFile);

    if (function_exists('date_default_timezone_set'))
    {
        date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
    }

    $map = array(
        QUICKBOOKS_QUERY_CUSTOMER => array( '_quickbooks_customer_query_request', '_quickbooks_customer_query_response' ),
    );

    $errmap = array();
    $hooks = array();
    $log_level = QUICKBOOKS_LOG_DEVELOP;
    $soap = QUICKBOOKS_SOAPSERVER_BUILTIN;
    $soap_options = array();
    $handler_options = array(
        'authenticate' => '_quickbooks_custom_auth', 
        'deny_concurrent_logins' => false, 
    );

    if (!QuickBooks_Utilities::initialized($DSN))
    {
        QuickBooks_Utilities::initialize($DSN);
        QuickBooks_Utilities::createUser($DSN, $user, $pass);
        $primary_key_of_your_customer = 5;
        $Queue = new QuickBooks_WebConnector_Queue($DSN);
        $Queue->enqueue(QUICKBOOKS_QUERY_CUSTOMER, $primary_key_of_your_customer);
    }

    $Server = new QuickBooks_WebConnector_Server($DSN, $map, $errmap, $hooks, $log_level, $soap, QUICKBOOKS_WSDL, $soap_options, $handler_options);
    $response = $Server->handle(true, true);

    function _quickbooks_custom_auth($Username, $Password, &$QuickBooksCompanyFile){
        return true;
    }

    function _quickbooks_customer_query_request($requestID, $user, $action, $ID, $extra, &$err, $last_action_time, $last_actionident_time, $version, $locale)
    {
        $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
                    <?qbxml version="13.0"?>
                    <QBXML>
                        <QBXMLMsgsRq onError="stopOnError">
                            <CustomerQueryRq requestID="1">
                                <FullName>Kaley Baker</FullName>
                                <OwnerID>0</OwnerID>
                            </CustomerQueryRq>
                        </QBXMLMsgsRq>
                    </QBXML>';
        return $xml;
    }

    function _quickbooks_customer_query_response($requestID, $user, $action, $ID, $extra, &$err, $last_action_time, $last_actionident_time, $xml, $idents)
    {
        file_put_contents('CustomerQuery.txt', $xml);
    }

The config.php file contents are as follows-

    $UserName='Admin';
    $Password='Test123';
    $DSN='mysqli://root@localhost/qb';
    $QuickBooksCompanyFile = 'E:\QB.QBW';
    $QuickBooksFile='C:\xampp\htdocs\accounting\qb\QuickBooks.php';
    $Email='demo.code@gmail.com';
    $DBHost='localhost';
    $DBUser='root';
    $DBPass='';
    $DBName='qb'; 
    */

Answer 1

A quick Google or StackOverflow search yields the following link (together with a sea of other posts saying the same thing):

• http://www.consolibyte.com/docs/index.php/QuickBooks_Web_Connector_-_No_data_exchange_required

Which says:

What does "No data exchange required" mean?

That message means exactly what it says:

There's no data to exchange. There's nothing to do. The Web Connector (and most frameworks/dev kits built around it) use a 'queue' concept. Once the queue is empty, there's nothing else to do, and you'll get that message. If you add something to the queue, then it will process those items until there's nothing left to do, and then you'll get the "No Data Exchange..." message again.

So, for instance, say you want to build a process whereby every time a customer is created within your store, the customer gets created in QuickBooks. You'd then want to set up a process where when that customer is created within your store, you queue up a request to add the customer to QuickBooks.

Looking at your code, there is only one call to any sort of queue method:

$Queue->enqueue(QUICKBOOKS_QUERY_CUSTOMER, $primary_key_of_your_customer);

And if you go back to the docs/examples where you found this code:

• https://github.com/consolibyte/quickbooks-php/blob/master/docs/web_connector/example_web_connector.php#L288

From this library:

• https://github.com/consolibyte/quickbooks-php

You'll see the big comment that says:

    // IMPORTANT NOTE: This particular example of queueing something up will 
    //  only ever happen *once* when these scripts are first run/used. After 
    //  this initial test, you MUST do your queueing in another script. DO NOT 
    //  DO YOUR OWN QUEUEING IN THIS FILE! See 
    //  docs/example_web_connector_queueing.php for more details and examples 
    //  of queueing things up.

Sooooo...

• Have you queued anything up that needs to be processed? Doesn't look like it.
• If you have, where's the code for that? What do the database records (stored in the quickbooks_queue SQL table) look like?
• Go queue something up, and you won't get this message anymore.
• Need to know how to queue up something? Refer to the example that the code links you to:

Example:

• https://github.com/consolibyte/quickbooks-php/blob/master/docs/web_connector/example_web_connector_queueing.php