RESTful Web2Lead Form

e.g. http://myCRMserver/index.php?entryPoint=WebToLeadCapture.

Using this generated form every visitor of your website is informed about the location of your CRM server. If you want to hide the address of the CRM server you should use a Lead Form which uses the web service interface of Sugar in a php script. So the address of your web server is not visible any more in the source code of your website.

The following article describes how to set up such a php page which uses the Lead Form generated in Sugar 7 with some extra code to enter leads via web service in Sugar.Step 1: Create a “normal” Lead Form in Sugar 7

Drag and drop the fields you want to see in the Lead Form to the two possible columns.

Now configure your form and select the related campaign.

Beautify the form in the html editor...

...and generate the html code.

Step 2: Change the generated html code to a php REST code

Copy the html code of the generated Lead Form into an editor and copy the following lines of code before the first line of the Lead Form code:

<?php
 $rest = "http://myCRMserver/rest/v10"; // your crm server address
 $user = "user"; // userid of the webservice user
 $pass = "pass"; // and the password of user “user”
 $step = $_REQUEST["step"];
 if ($step=="") $step="1";
 if ($step=="1") // show the Lead Form
 {
 ?>

Now search the <form> line:

<form id="WebToLeadForm" action="http://myCRMserver/index.php?entryPoint=WebToLeadCapture" method="POST" name="WebToLeadForm">

and change it to the location of the new php lead form:

<form id="WebToLeadForm" action="http://myWebserver/myWebToLeadCapture.php?step=2" method="POST" name="WebToLeadForm">

“http://myWebserver/myWebToLeadCapture.php” is only an example, you can store the new Lead Form in any location on your public web server.

Then add the following code to call the webservice interface at the end of the file:

<?php
}
   else // $step == "2" - generate the Lead
{
   $lead = $_REQUEST;
   $ignore = array("step","redirect_url","req_id"); // fields to be ignored
   foreach ($ignore as $key)
   {
      unset($lead[$key]); // ignore the field
   }
   $url = $rest . "/oauth2/token"; // login
   $oauth2_token_parameters = array(
      "grant_type" => "password",
      "client_id" => "sugar",
      "client_secret" => "",
      "username" => $user,
      "password" => $pass,
      "platform" => "base"
   );
   $oauth2_token_result = call($url, '', 'POST', $oauth2_token_parameters);
   if (empty($oauth2_token_result->error))
   {
      $url = $rest . "/Leads"; // enter Lead
      $post_lead_result = call($url, $oauth2_token_result->access_token, 'POST', $lead);
      $url = $rest . "/oauth2/logout"; // logout
      $oauth2_logout_result = call($url, $oauth2_token_result->access_token, 'POST');
      if (!empty($_REQUEST["redirect_url"])) // redirect
         header("Location: {$_REQUEST['redirect_url']}");
   }
   else
      print("<hr>THAT WAS NOT OK<hr>"); // login not successful
}

and the code for the function “call” which allows easy handling of RESTful webservices to Sugar:

/*******************************************************************************
 * call
 ******************************************************************************/
/**
* Generic function to make cURL request.
* @param $url - The URL route to use.
* @param string $oauthtoken - The oauth token.
* @param string $type - GET, POST, PUT. Defaults to GET.
* @param array $parameters - Endpoint parameters.
* @return mixed
*/
function call($url, $oauthtoken='', $type='GET', $parameters=array())
{
   $type = strtoupper($type);
   $curl_request = curl_init($url);
   if ($type == 'POST')
   {
      curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
   }
   elseif ($type == 'PUT')
   {
      curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
   }
   elseif ($type == 'DELETE')
   {
      curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE");
   }
   curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0);
   curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
   curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
   curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
   if (!empty($oauthtoken))
   {
      $token = array("oauth-token: {$oauthtoken}");
      curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $token);
   }
   if (!empty($parameters))
   {
      //encode the parameters as JSON
      $jsonEncodedData = json_encode($parameters);
      curl_setopt($curl_request, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonEncodedData);
   }
   $result = curl_exec($curl_request);
   curl_close($curl_request);
   //decode the response from JSON
   $response = json_decode($result);
   return $response;
}
?>

Step 3: Save the new Lead Form to your webserver location, e.g.http://myWebserver/myWebToLeadCapture.php or any location, as mentioned already above.

There are two additional direct links to your crm server hidden in two JavaScript includes. Check if you need these includes and remove them from the Lead Form or provide the needed JavaScipt functions in your web server environment.

Step 4: Test the new Lead Form

If you call your new Lead Form http://myWebserver/myWebToLeadCapture.php you get the following lead capture screen: