How to post a lead from third party website?

[AjiNIMC]

Hi,

Here is my problem.

Site 1) financewidget.com where people signup for financial products. Third party site. No sugar crm running here. Lead generating site.
Site 2) FinancialWidgetCompany.com where we deliever financial products. Sugar crm is running here. Lead processing site.


Now when someone is signing up at Site 1 I want the details to be available at site 2 as well. This will speed up the process.

I have following options

1) Export the data from Site 1 and send it to Site 2. Site 2 can then import it. This will create delay in the system. Also chances of duplication of records
2) When someone submits a form in Site 1 I can ask them to submit it to Site 2 using curl. For this I will have design a form which doesn't require authentication. So in this case I will have to manage a authentication layer to avoid spams.

Is there any other way to post leads from third party websites? Are there some modules available which can take care of it?

I need urgent help, please help

Thanks in advance.

AjiNIMC

[Mike Ryan]

I would do the following:

Have a form on fw.com which stores the data in a text file. Write a script on your webserver to submit this data to SugarCRM on fwc.com - this way, you only need to authenticate once. Your script can check for dupes when it uploads. Delay could be minimal - depending on your submission load and server specs, you could just open the text file as a pipe and upload submissions to Sugar as they come in.

Or cut out the middle-man and have a web form which takes the data and uploads it straight to SugarCRM - this would have the advantage of two-way communication so you could, for example, give the customer their newly created record ID.

Mike

[kpit]

Best option is to use SOAP and talk to SugarCRM to capture a lead. there is an example of lead capture in SugarCRM in the example directory.

[AjiNIMC]

Thanks Mike,

This can be done easily using curl but my module will be specific to my own project. If I have to develop a module I will make it general that it can be used by the community.

Thanks Max, do we have modules available for such need. I saw many promising mods at sourceforge but there is no download available. Can I also be a part of development? Is there a directory of such modules where I can browse first to make sure I am not reinventing the wheels?

Thanks,
AjiNIMC