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PHP POST data from my website to salesforce
I have a website where I POST data from a form to salesforce. The purpose is for a newsletter so I save the guys name and email address. The problem I have is that they are being transfered as "Leads" and we have to manually convert them to "Contacts" in salesforce which is easy, but a pain. Is there a way to automatically send the POST as a Contact rather than a Lead? Here is my code:
$lead['oid']='*****'; $lead['retURL']='http://archive.cyark.org'; $lead['email']='joe@domain.com'; $lead['Lead Source']='Front Page Email List'; do_post_request("http://www.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToLead?encoding=UTF-8", $lead);
What do I do? Do I need to include another key/value pair in the data to signal that it should be a Contact rather than a Lead? Is there another address that I need to POST the data to?
Any help in this matter would be appreciated.
A way i can think to accomplish this is to write a trigger on Lead object with a Lead source that would then convert the Lead that was created to a contact.
Let me know if this helps you.
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I am sorry I do not understand your suggestion. I think you are mentioning sales force specific development ideas with which I am not very familiar. Is there a PHP solution for this? How can I edit my code snippet to get the desired outcome?
Or, rather, could you point me in the right direction to learn how to "write a trigger"? I not sure what exactly that is or what that means.