Retrieve customer

Overview

Use the getCustomerInformation method to retrieve the details of a customer entity from the 2Checkout system.

Parameters

Parameters	Type/Description
sessionID	Required (string)
	Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. 2Checkout throws an exception if the values are incorrect. The sessionID expires in 10 minutes.
CustomerReference	Required (int)
	System-generated customer reference. Required unless you prefer to use ExternalCustomerReference.
ExternalCustomerReference	Optional (string)
	External customer reference that you control. Optional when you use CustomerReference. If you include it, it needs to belong to the same customer as the CustomerReference.

Response

Parameters	Type/Description
Customer	Object

Request

<?php

require ('PATH_TO_AUTH');

$customerReference = CUSTOMER_REFERENCE;
$externalCustomerReference = 'EXT_CUSTOMER_REFERENCE'; //Optional, but if you include it it needs to belong to the same customer as the internal 2Checkout customer reference


try {
    $customerInfo = $client->getCustomerInformation($sessionID, $customerReference, $externalCustomerReference);
}
catch (SoapFault $e) {
    echo "customerInfo: " . $e->getMessage();
    exit;
}
var_dump("customerInfo", $customerInfo);