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Can Gravity Forms Post?

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  1. Sargent
    Member

    Can Gravity forms post using any of these methods? HTTP POST, HTTP GET or XML?

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday May 15, 2012 | Permalink

  2. David Peralty

    Can you give me more information on what you are trying to accomplish? You can push data to pages using these methods, but it requires customization.

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday May 15, 2012 | Permalink

  3. Sargent
    Member

    David,

    We are using a service called leads360 and they allow us to import information into our database by using one of these methods. I believe the way that it works is when someone fills out a contact form, it would go to a URL like this https://secure.leads360.com/Import.aspx?Provider=someprovidername&Client=someclient&CampaignId=25&URL=http://www.domainname.com/index.xxx, where the parameters would be the fields of the form.

    I know that gravity forms already does this by passing field data via query string, but I didn't know if it used HTTP POST, HTTP GET or XML to do this.

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday May 15, 2012 | Permalink

  4. David Peralty

    I think this is what you are looking for:
    http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_after_submission

    Check out the second example on that page.

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday May 15, 2012 | Permalink

  5. James Laughlin
    Member

    I'm frustrated.

    I followed the instructions on the link above but cannot get the hook to fire.

    for example this does not work:

    //handle submission
 $confirmation = self::handle_submission($form, $lead, $ajax);
 add_action("gform_after_submission_4", "post_to_third_party", 10, 2);
 function post_to_third_party($entry, $form){ die; }

    And when I mean "does not work, I mean it doesn't die where I expect it to. :)

    Am I calling the hook in the wrong place? I'm stumped.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday May 23, 2012 | Permalink

  6. James Laughlin
    Member

    Just to be clear, I have double-checked that the form_id is 4 for the form that I'm working with.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday May 23, 2012 | Permalink

  7. James Laughlin
    Member

    Ok, so I got it working and here's the thing.

    Gravity Forms assumes in the post linked above that you understand where the code they give you should go. I didn't. After a lot of Googling I figured out that your hook and function should go in your theme's functions.php file. Mine is at /var/www/<website>/htdocs/wp-content/themes/<mytheme>/functions.php yours will be in a similar path.

    This may be obvious to the seasoned Wordpress developer, but it wasn't to me because I'm not a Wordpress developer. My understanding is that you should keep your modifications here so that you don't modify core functionality of the plugin and so that you can easily locate any changes you make. Good idea.

    The other thing that I found is that "gform_after_submission" did not work for me. I couldn't make that code fire whether I was making it die, or trying to write to a logfile. I changed the hook to "gform_post_submission" and it worked right away.

    Ten minutes later I was moving my code to production.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday May 24, 2012 | Permalink

  8. David Peralty

    Glad to hear you figured it out. Here's a link for others looking at this thread in the future:
    http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Where_Do_I_Put_This_Code%3F

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday May 24, 2012 | Permalink

  9. James Laughlin
    Member

    Thanks David.

    But what about the "gform_after_submission" vs "gform_post_submission" issue? Has "gform_after_submission" been deprecated in favor of "gform_post_submission"?

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday May 24, 2012 | Permalink

  10. David Peralty

    No, it hasn't been deprecated. I'm going to check into it with the developers on why you received a different result using one hook over the other.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday May 24, 2012 | Permalink

  11. James Laughlin
    Member

    Is there any update on this David?

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday June 22, 2012 | Permalink

  12. David Peralty

    They weren't able to replicate your issue.

    The after_submission is the hook that the developers are working on and post_submission is what they hope to deprecate at some point (in the long future, once they've figured out how to transition people).

    I will revisit the issue with them and see if we can get any more details on it.

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday June 22, 2012 | Permalink

  13. David Peralty

    Can you send your form XML and functions.php file to peralty@rocketgenius.com please?

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday June 22, 2012 | Permalink

  14. alingliga
    Member

    I'm trying to link leads360 with GravityForms but I don't really know how to do this.

    $body = array(
        'first_name' => $entry['1.3'],
        'last_name' => $entry['1.6'],
        'message' => $entry['3']
        );

    What data should be put in place of 'first_name', etc?

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday January 11, 2013 | Permalink

  15. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    first_name, last_name and message are the parameters required by wherever you are sending your WP_Http request. The actual names will come from leads360. It's your job to send them the data in the format they require.

    Posted 11 years ago on Friday January 11, 2013 | Permalink

  16. alingliga
    Member

    Thank you Chris Hajer for your support, it is working now.

    One more question: Why I get a HTTP Error 500 on the website if I add one more after submission hook for a different form?

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday January 29, 2013 | Permalink

  17. David Peralty

    It would depend on what and how you are doing it. Are you naming your functions the same or different? I would have to see exactly what you have before I could answer that question. All my best!

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday January 29, 2013 | Permalink

  18. alingliga
    Member

    I think the function's name is the problem.

    The first function starts with:
    'add_action('gform_after_submission_3', 'post_to_third_party', 10, 2);
    function post_to_third_party($entry, $form) {'

    and the second one:
    'add_action('gform_after_submission_2', 'post_to_third_party', 10, 2);
    function post_to_third_party($entry, $form) {'

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday January 29, 2013 | Permalink

  19. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Rename the "post_to_third_party" function to something else, then change the action line to call the new function. You can't have two functions with the same name.

    Or, if the function is reusable, don't add the function in a second time; just call the one function from two separate add_action lines, once for each form. If the function is the same in both places, that will work fine. If the function is different in both places, you have to rename one of the instances.

    This could be your second code block:

    [php]
'add_action('gform_after_submission_2', 'post_to_third_party_two', 10, 2);
function post_to_third_party_two($entry, $form) {'
    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday January 29, 2013 | Permalink

  20. alingliga
    Member

    I have tried exactly that name before asking and it didn't work BUT now it is working.
    Thank you

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday January 30, 2013 | Permalink

  21. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    You're welcome.

    Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday January 30, 2013 | Permalink

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