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Paul_83ukPaul_83uk 

Generate leads into Salesforce from existing web forms

I am the web developer of a Software Company, we have recently started to use Salesforce.

My understanding of standard web-to-lead is the form has to post to Saleforce website. I already have a large amount of forms on our website that have a lot of functionality and need to post to within my website. I wanted to be able to grab the leads from these forms quickly and easily while still keeping the functionality that is already in place.

I found an App called FormVester, it seemed ideal for this but I don't think it's supported any longer.

Anyone know of any other way of achieving this?

colingcoling
It should not be difficult for you to add a call to WebToLead from within your server-side script. I have done this in PHP using cUrl. What script language(s) do you have in place?

Colin Goldberg
Paul_83ukPaul_83uk
Hi Thanks for the reply,

yes I have been looking at using cURL

I understand the following code should work (I haven't tested it yet):

Code:

$cleanPOST = array();

foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value){
     $cleanPOST[stripslashes($key)] = stripslashes($value);
 }
  // Create a new cURL resource
 $ch = curl_init(); 

 // Set Options
  
  // Point to the Salesforce Web to Lead page
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToLead—encoding=UTF-8");
  
  // Set the method to POST
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
  
  // Pass POST data
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($cleanPOST));
  
 
 curl_exec($ch); // Post to Salesforce
 
 curl_close($ch); // close cURL resource

 Would I still need to create the form fields in Salesforce? Would I need to do anything else?
colingcoling
Yes, that should work. And yes, you do need to create the form fields in Salesforce.

Colin
toivotoivo
Hi,

I posted an example earlier into this thread:

http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=PerlDevelopment&thread.id=3210

Regards,
toivo