Make my own web form? Not lead.

[eikum]

Hello.
I have just created my own module with SugerCRM. Its almost like the Lead module.
But I want to create a web form like I can do with Lead. A person can visit my website and then register, when the user click on the "apply" button. The information will be sent to my own SugarCRM module.

How can I do this? any tips?

Regards,

[letrium]

Hi!

You should use SOAP for this.

Best regards,

[eikum]

Any link or tutorial for this app?

[dlorenzetti]

Sugar have a file called leadCapture.php. this file call the modules/Leads/Capture.php. You can write a file like that to insert data in your module.

[eikum]

Like you see under here, the value its in the code. But I want to create a .html page with textboxes. When one user type in a name, the information will be sent to this script under here.. Is this possible? Like when I type "Mac" in a test.html the name "Mac" will be sent to array('name'=>'first_name','value'=>'Mac'),

<?php
// add nusoap library
require_once('lib/nusoap.php');

// create a soap client
$client = new nusoap_client('http://nettside.org/sugar/soap.php?wsdl','wsdl','','','','');

// Login
$user_auth = array(
'user_auth' => array(
'user_name' => 'admin',
'password' => md5('adminpassord'),
'version' => '0.1'),
'application_name' => 'SugarCrm'
);

$result = $client->call('login',$user_auth);

// output the session id
echo '<h2>Session Id:</h2>';
print($result['id']);

// Now Prepare a Contact
$set_entry_params = array(
'session' => $result['id'],
'module_name' => 'Contacts',
'name_value_list'=>array(
array('name'=>'first_name','value'=>'Ola'),
array('name'=>'last_name','value'=>'Norman'),
array('name'=>'email1','value'=>'konge@norge.com'),
array('name'=>'lead_source','value'=>'http://www.kongen.com'),
array('name'=>'phone_work', 'value'=>'22445566'),
array('name'=>'account_name','value'=>'Okei')
)
);

// Now Add the Contact
$result2 = $client->call('set_entry',$set_entry_params);

// Show the result
echo '<h2>Add Dump:</h2>';
print_r($result2);
?>

[ssmeredith]

Hey D!

I'm going to piggy back on this post as it's a few months old and not resolved....

My question is similar but I want to have my lead form dump into the contacts module instead of a custom module. Should be one line difference right? Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Save me from a handful of more grey hairs

Thank you!
M

[livinonthedge]

We're looking at doing the same kind of stuff. Any help out there?

[eggsurplus]

I'd recommend just altering the leadCapture.php form. Make a copy of it and set the first line of the file as a valid entry point (example in some other Sugar code for how to do that). Then alter to push to contacts. It should take a couple of hours at most. If you're familiar with Sugar it may take about a half hour.

I'm too nice. Here's a sample contactCapture.php form (use like leadCapture but put in the root Sugar folder):

 <?php
if(!defined('sugarEntry'))define('sugarEntry', true);
 
require_once('include/entryPoint.php');
require_once('include/utils.php');
require_once('modules/Contacts/ContactFormBase.php');
 
global $app_strings, $app_list_strings;
 
$mod_strings = return_module_language($sugar_config['default_language'], 'Contacts');
 
$app_list_strings['record_type_module'] = array('Contact'=>'Contacts', 'Account'=>'Accounts', 'Opportunity'=>'Opportunities', 'Case'=>'Cases', 'Note'=>'Notes', 'Call'=>'Calls', 'Email'=>'Emails', 'Meeting'=>'Meetings', 'Task'=>'Tasks', 'Contact'=>'Contacts','Bug'=>'Bugs',);
 
$users = array(
    'form_user' => array('name'=>'SUGAR_USER_HERE_USEGENERICUSER', 'pass'=>'USER_HASH_HERE'),
);
 
if (!empty($_POST['user']) && !empty($users[$_POST['user']])) {
    require_once('modules/Users/User.php');
    $current_user = new User();
    $current_user->user_name = $users[$_POST['user']]['name'];
 
    if($current_user->authenticate_user($users[$_POST['user']]['pass'])){
        $userid = $current_user->retrieve_user_id($users[$_REQUEST['user']]['name']);
        $current_user->retrieve($userid);
        $contactForm = new ContactFormBase();
        $prefix = '';
        if(!empty($_POST['prefix'])){
            $prefix =     $_POST['prefix'];
        }
 
 
        $_POST['record'] ='';
 
        if( isset($_POST['_splitName']) ) {
            $name = explode(' ',$_POST['name']);
            if(sizeof($name) == 1) {
                $_POST['first_name'] = '';  $_POST['last_name'] = $name[0];
            }
            else {
                $_POST['first_name'] = $name[0];  $_POST['last_name'] = $name[1];
            }
        }
 
        $return_val = $contactForm->handleSave($prefix, false, true);
 
        if(isset($_POST['redirect']) && !empty($_POST['redirect'])){
 
            //header("Location: ".$_POST['redirect']);
            echo '<html><head><title>SugarCRM</title></head><body>';
            echo '<form name="redirect" action="' .$_POST['redirect']. '" method="POST">';
 
            foreach($_POST as $param => $value) {
 
                if($param != 'redirect' || $param != 'submit') {
                    echo '<input type="hidden" name="'.$param.'" value="'.$value.'">';
                }
 
            }
 
            if( ($return_val == '') || ($return_val  == 0) || ($return_val < 0) ) {
                echo '<input type="hidden" name="error" value="1">';
            }
            echo '</form><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">document.redirect.submit();</script>';
            echo '</body></html>';
        }
        else{
            echo "Thank You For Your Submission.";
        }
        sugar_cleanup();
        // die to keep code from running into redirect case below
        die();
    }
}
 
echo "We're sorry, the server is currently unavailable, please try again later.";
if (!empty($_POST['redirect'])) {
    echo '<html><head><title>SugarCRM</title></head><body>';
    echo '<form name="redirect" action="' .$_POST['redirect']. '" method="POST">';
    echo '</form><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">document.redirect.submit();</script>';
    echo '</body></html>';
}
?>  

[chiefnt]

Can someone help me understand this solution? Here's my take on it....and please forgive me as I'm a non-technical newbie and probably shouldn't even be posting here:

I’ve created a Capture.php file using the above code and placed it in the modules/Contact directory. This didn’t work, not surprisingly.

I need to understand:
1) Where exactly does this code go?
2) I’m assuming what Eggsurplus has graciously provided is the bulk of the solution and any other changes are minor ( I hope). Can someone outline what other files need to be altered to get this to work.
3) Do I need to change the script on the web form?
4) If this ends up working, would I still be able to create web-to-lead forms with the new web-to-contact functionality?

Thanks!