Trouble creating an item with "category" and "app" fields

Trying to create a new Student Item using the following code:

$grade = settype($_POST['grade'],'integer'); // I did this because I got an error that said "Invalid value u'4': Must be Integral'."

** $teacher = settype($_POST['teacher'],'integer');**

** try { **

$new_student = $this->api->item->create(STUDENT_APP_ID, **

* array('fields' => *

** array(

"title" => $_POST['first']." ".$_POST['last'],

"first-name" => $_POST['first'],

"last-name" => $_POST['last'],

"teacher" => $teacher,

"grade" => $grade

)

)

);

** }**

Now I that I added the SETTYPE I get an error about it being boolean even though the console displays a number for both of them. Here's the output:

error: "There was an error. The API responded with the error type 'invalid_value' and the message 'Invalid field 17766538 ('value'): Invalid value True: Must not be bool'."

grade: 3

message: "There was a problem adding the student to the account, please contact a site admin"

success: false

teacher: 19244880

So now I have "integer" values for both fields and they consider them boolean and I still can't create this item :(

Nick Worth

October 11, 2012 21:05

I may have just figured it out myself, basically same idea I had in mind when using SETTYPE() but instead I used the FLOATVAL() and that seemed to make it integral and acceptable

Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen

October 11, 2012 21:59

Quick note: To cast strings as ints it's a little faster to type:

$grade = (int)$_POST['grade'];

What type of field is the 'grade' field?

Mike Knoop

February 11, 2013 18:50

BTW, what does '_Must be Integral' _mean? I assumed it wanted an integer value, but Integral and Integer are two completely different things if Iam not mistaken.

Trouble creating an item with "category" and "app" fields

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