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trying to add customer as child of parent customer not working
I've been trying to add a new customer to a parent customer using the 2012_2 endpoint.
The code below adds the customer, with the billing and shipping address I supply, but not as a child of the requested parent customer. When I look at the new customer in NetSuite, the Parent Company is empty.
Checking the PHPToolkit_2012_2 NetSuiteService.php carefully, I noticed that for class Customer, lines 49689-93 define:
public $parent;
/**
* @access public
* @var string
*/
Should this be * @var RecordRef instead??
while in the $paramtypesmap, line 50253 defines:
"parent" => "RecordRef",
I used code as follows, pulling customer data from another MySQL database, with $netsuiteParentCompanyId set equal to the NetSuite internal ID of the parent customer: