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Create url that passes parameters to 3rd party site

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  1. robdasailor
    Member

    We are a University club that is soliciting for donations. Upon submitting a form, I need that action to pass 2 parameters to a 3rd party site that manages our donation collection. I can't find any documentation or support that seems to deal with this. The site is http://WWW.asusailing.org (I use GF on another site and would purchase another copy or an upgrade for thwart ASU site.
    Thanks
    ROB

    Posted 13 years ago on Thursday May 5, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Are you wanting to pass data to a 3rd party servie as part of the post submission process? If so you would have to do this using available API hooks and custom PHP. You wouldn't change the form action which is handled by Gravity Forms. It would be the same process of integrating with a 3rd party API.

    Here is a post that discusses the hooks you would have to use:

    http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/sms-api-gateway-need-help-to-get-gform-to-integrate#post-18087

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday May 6, 2011 | Permalink

  3. robdasailor
    Member

    The 3rd party site specifically asks for 3 parameters in the URL. One is static, but the other two are dynamic based on what the user entered in the form. It looks like this:

    https://secure.asufoundation.org/payment/default.asp?eid=171&gamount=50&tamo
    unt=100

    The "gamount" and the "tamount" are the dynamic parameters.

    Ideally, they press the submit button and are redirected to this URL with the appropriate parameters. I don't think they are using an API in this instance. Just a simple parse of the incoming parameters. And if it sounds like I might not know what I'm talking about...there might be a reason. I'm a hack, not really a programmer...

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday May 8, 2011 | Permalink

  4. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Does that URL also handle the thank you/confirmation message or is it merely to send information to that URL?

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday May 9, 2011 | Permalink