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PO1 PHP contact form - 2 Actions - Send info to Email & External API / DB
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copied!<p>I have a contact form on my site. It can either use PHP script to capture data and email it to me, or send it to API directly, by changing <code><form action=""></code></p> <p>By API i mean a script that captures info and saves it to external DB. The API is based on ASP (this is my presumption), and I have no access to it, and have to use the format specified below.</p> <p>I need to modify the PHP script, so it send info by email AND to the external API using this SPECIFIC format using POST method.</p> <p><em>Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer, but I can figure our how to do things, if pointed in the right direction.</em></p> <p>The format in wich API accepts info:</p> <pre><code><form action="https://api.somsite.com/?user=&key=&zipcode=&name=&phone=&email=&address=&service=" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="user" value="12345"/> <input type="hidden" name="key" value="0987654321"/> </code></pre> <p>Hidden values (USER and KEY) are used so API knows where info came from.</p> <p>Other inputs are provided by user (Name, Email, Zip, Phone, Address, Service).</p> <p>Here is what my current PHP script looks like:</p> <pre><code><?php session_start(); ?><?php $to = "myemail@gmail.com"; $subject = "LEAD"; $email = $_REQUEST["email"]; $name = $_REQUEST["name"]; $address = $_REQUEST["address"]; $zip = $_REQUEST["zipcode"]; $phone = $_REQUEST["phone"]; $service = $_REQUEST["service"]; $user = $_REQUEST["user"]; $key = $_REQUEST["key"]; $dodgy_strings = array( "content-type:" ,"mime-version:" ,"multipart/mixed" ,"bcc:" ); $msg = 'Name: '.$name. PHP_EOL; $msg .= 'Phone: '.$phone. PHP_EOL; $msg .= 'E-mail: '.$email. PHP_EOL. PHP_EOL; $msg .= 'Address: '.$address. PHP_EOL; $msg .= 'Zip code: '.$zip. PHP_EOL. PHP_EOL; $msg .= 'Service: '.$service. PHP_EOL. PHP_EOL; $msg .= 'User ID: '.$user. PHP_EOL. PHP_EOL; $msg .= 'Access Key: '.$key. PHP_EOL. PHP_EOL; $msg .= PHP_EOL; mail($to, $subject, $msg); header('Location: http://www.mysite.com/thankyou.htm'); // This redirects to Thank You page ?> </code></pre> <p><strong>Basically, I need to use the above PHP script together with some sort of CURL function, or similar.</strong> </p> <p>I read somewhere on STACK that I would need to us CURL function in PHP, but have no idea how to implement it. </p> <p>Please help - I would appreciate it VERY VERY much.</p> <p>Sincerely, Leo.</p>

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