how to: create a lead from external app

[vyoumans]

I am new to SugarCRM, but am working a lot with Drupal. I want to create a lead with some fields, and send it to SugarCRM as a lead. what techniques are there to do this.

I found the way to send an email, I also found verbage in some SUgarCRM saying that leads from emails are not automatically entered as LEADS to prevent spam. my thought is that I can prevent the spam on the DRUPAL side.

Another Idea that I had was for a Leads table to be populated from Drupal, then have some kind of cron run every 30 seconds to down load the table to the leads section of SugarCRM then run a batch like send a confirmation email.

I was also thinking of sending a xml file or just some email that coule be parsed on the SugarCRM side.

SO... could someone comment on my ideas, and give me some URL links on how to do this please
thanks
vince

[eggsurplus]

Hey vyoumans,

There's an article on the wiki that will help you: http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.p...r_your_website