Following section discusses updating of the information saved for an already existing custom field, using API services, there is also a sample request with the json based responses it returns with.

Required to Submit Json Request 

Username	The email that account holder uses to login MUMARA
API Token	The API token user has generated using API Configuration section of MUMARA, also mentioned above.
Method	Method being called (Post)
Path	Path to the API file being called ('http//www.yourdomain.com/API/deleteSubscriber)

Field Details

Label/Variable	Priority	Description
field_id	Required	ID of the particular custom field you want to update
field_name	Required	Name of the custom field is another requirement to submit the request successfully
field_type	Required	Which type of the custom field is this.

Sample Request

Following sample request updates custom field order of the list number 9. See the following sample request.

$postData['custom_field_id']    = '9';
$postData['field_name']        = 'gender';
$postData['field_type']     = 'checkbox';
$postData['field_order']    = '2';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,'http://www.yourdomain.com/API/updateCustomField');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($postData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'APIToken: 343b1b831067b50e308e6bf93e0f06f0', 'Login: [email protected]'));
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {

  print "Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {

   // Show me the result

   print ($data);
   curl_close($ch);
}

Success Response

Upon submitting valid request

Status value for successfully updating custom field will be- “success”
Data Returned- List ID

{"status":"success","response":{"Custom Field ID":"9"}}

Erroneous Response

When you submit request with inappropriate, incorrect information.

Status value for unsuccessful submission will be-"error”
Data Returned- Text based message describing reason of unsuccessful response
If the Custom Field ID, Field Name, Field Type is not mentioned or incorrect, or if the custom field doesn't exist.