Meride

Meride API - Category - Create

This page explains how to create Category elements.

Entity name: category.

POST http://API_DOMAIN/rest/v2/category.{format}

Attributes

Parameter Value Mandatory
title A non-empty string YES
father_id ID of the parent category you want to associate NO
description A string NO

Response

Field Value Description
id string Object ID
title string Object title
description string The associated description
created_at string The create date that follows the format Y-m-d H:i:s
Y(year) m(month) d(day) H(hours) i(minutes) s(seconds)
father_id int Father category ID

Example of a request

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -H "access-token: [your-access-token]" -X POST http://API_DOMAIN/rest/v2/category.json -d '
{
    "title": "Category title"
}'

Example of a JSON response

{
	"id":"2",
	"title":"Category title",
	"description":null,
	"created_at":"2013-02-06 17:11:03",
	"father_id": null
}

Note The object created will be returned as a response

PHP SDK documentation 
$merideApi = new Meride\Api('[your-auth-code]', 'http://API_DOMAIN/', 'v2');
$response = $merideApi->create('category', array (
  'title' => 'Category title',
));