Wordpress: integrate CRM (solve360) with Contact Form 7 - php

Question

I am trying to let a contact form (Contact Form 7) on a WordPress site create new contacts in my CRM program (solve360). To make it easier, I also activated a plugin (Forms: 3rd Party Integration) in which I defined a submission url and field mapping. Part of it works, but I am missing something simple here...
When pressing the send button, the data is sent to an email address (success) and to solve360 (not yet successfully). I actually receive a message that a new contact was created in solve360, however all the fields are empty. So I am guessing the problem is that the form fields are not properly transferred to the solve360 fields. However, I am using this template from solve360:
// REQUIRED Edit with the email address you login to Solve360 with
define('USER', '****************');
// REQUIRED Edit with token, Solve360 menu > My Account > API Reference > API Token
define('TOKEN', '*****************');
// Get request data
$requestData = array();
parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $requestData);
// Configure service gateway object
require 'Solve360Service.php';
$solve360Service = new Solve360Service(USER, TOKEN);
//
// Preparing the contact data
//
$contactFields = array('firstname','lastname','businessemail','businessphonedirect','name','homeaddress','cus tom10641628','custom11746174','custom13346238');
$contactData = array();
// adding not empty fields
foreach ($contactFields as $solve360FieldName => $requestFieldName) {
if ($requestData[$requestFieldName]) {
$contactData[$solve360FieldName] = $requestData[$requestFieldName];
}
}
//
// Saving the contact
//
// If there was business email provided:
// check if the contact already exists by searching for a matching email address.
// if a match is found update the existing contact, otherwise create a new one.
//
if ($contactData['businessemail']) {
$contacts = $solve360Service->searchContacts(array(
'filtermode' => 'byemail',
'filtervalue' => $contactData['businessemail'],
));
}
if (isset($contacts) && (integer)$contacts->count > 0) {
$contactId = (integer)current($contacts->children())->id;
$contactName = (string)current($contacts->children())->name;
$contact = $solve360Service->editContact($contactId, $contactData);
} else {
$contact = $solve360Service->addContact($contactData);
$contactName = (string)$contact->item->name;
$contactId = (integer)$contact->item->id;
}
if (isset($contact->errors)) {
// Email the error
mail(
USER,
'Error while adding contact to Solve360',
'Error: ' . $contact->errors->asXml()
);
die ('System error');
} else {
// Email the result
mail(
USER,
'Contact posted to Solve360',
'Contact "' . $contactName . '" https://secure.solve360.com/contact/' . $contactId . ' was posted to Solve360'
);
}
In their example, they use a contact form with method="get" instead of method="post", however in the user interface of Contact Form 7, I believe the method is fixed to "post". Could this be the problem?
Or is there a different issue? Note that an empty contact is created at the moment. I can provide field mapping details and Forms 3rd party integration does allow hooks, if that helps in anyway.
Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks.

Answer 1

I discovered that the action method (POST) of the 3rd party plugin was not matching the expected action method (GET) of the Solve360 script. Therefore, I had to remove the following from the script:
// Get request data
$requestData = array();
parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $requestData);
and change the following piece of code from
// adding not empty fields
foreach ($contactFields as $solve360FieldName => $requestFieldName) {
if ($requestData[$requestFieldName]) {
$contactData[$solve360FieldName] = $requestData[$requestFieldName];
}
}
to
// adding not empty fields
foreach ($contactFields as $solve360FieldName => $requestFieldName) {
if ($_POST[$requestFieldName]) {
$contactData[$solve360FieldName] = $_POST[$requestFieldName];
}
}
Hope this will help someone who is connecting Contact Form 7 to their Solve360 database.