Victor Labigar asked 1 year ago
I'm curious if there's a solution in FF like some kind of /submissions endpoint just like Gravity Forms has.
Example from GF documentation:
curl --location --request POST 'https://example.com/wp-json/gf/v2/forms/1/submissions' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data-raw '{ "input_1": "value", "input_2": "another value", "input_4_3": "first", "input_4_6": "last" }'
I have created a custom lead generator tool where users has to answer a few questions and based on the answers a quote on the page gets rendered. Below is out of scope but for the sake of clearity here's an example of the quote that gets generated:
"I'm looking for X in Y in the X, that are A, B in size. The data will be used for our C. Our D budget is €0."
The page is currently build with static form fields in a page template and working with the Gravity Forms API. At the end of the wizard the user sees a form which he/she has to submit, and the rendered quote is with javascript attached to a hidden input that should also be sent to FF.
The input fields are corresponding with the gravity forms fields via the name attribute. On a POST request I send the form data to a submit endpoint and it all works. I'm looking for a similar solution with Formidable Forms. Can somebody help me with this or point me in the right direction?
The crucial thing that I think it's missing is a /submission endpoint that creates a new entry in a form with id X.
Example markup of the last step in the wizard are attached as screenshots.
Victor Labigar answered 1 year ago
Got it working. For those who are interested... here's the solution. I needed a way to get all the values of my static form fields and send them with a POST request to the formidable forms API which eventually should trigger the Highrise Add-on that creates a new Contactperson. 1. I created a form in FF with all the required fields.
2. I've installed the Highrise Add-on
3. I've created an Application Password in Wordpress for the Basic Authentication
4. Since I'm developing locally I've installed the WP plugin "WordPress REST API Authentication"
5. In the Highrise add-on you make sure to map the fields accordingly
6. Make a POST request for testing in Postman with the endpoint '/wp-json/frm/v2/entries'and basic auth enabled with your WP username and Application Password.
7. The body data should be json and should at least contains the key "form_id" and the required fields with the field ID as the key and dummy value.Example json:
{ "form_id": 22, "389": "Petrus", "rn4am": "Koblenko", "nymkk": "[email protected]", "yxzk2": "0123456789", "18n89": "Koblenko BV", "5o8gx": "Value xyz", "394": "Additional notes here as type of text", "l395y": "a", "9kyfh": "b", "9bact": "c", "fj5ii": "d", "9r2x2": "e", "zal19": "f", "9pkpa": "g", "u1h2e": "h", "bicb3": "i", "x470b": "j", "2uqol": "k", "17a3t": "l", "hzstd": "m", "ec2ja": "n", "tpbqe": "o" }
Important to know, if you want to have access to the admin-ajax.php in your frontend you have to define such variable yourself. wp_register_script('sage/main.js', asset_path('scripts/main.js'), ['jquery'], null, true);wp_localize_script('sage/main.js', 'ajax_params', ['ajax_url' => admin_url('admin-ajax.php')] ); wp_enqueue_script('sage/main.js' );
Victor Font answered 1 year ago
Victor Labigar
replied 1 year ago I've access to the Pro plugin. The point is that my form fields are static/hardcoded. And due to the design requirements I'm not able to build it with the FF Pro plugin. So using FF shortcodes is not an option for me.
Victor Font
replied 1 year ago If you can't use Formidable to create a new form that's not static, then you need to research two things: the Formidable Webhooks API add-on that provides you with REST endpoints that may suit the need, but it won't trigger the HighRise add-on to create the new entry in the CRM. https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/formidable-api/
The other thing to research is building your own endpoint with the WordPress REST API. https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/
Victor Labigar
replied 1 year ago Thanks for reply @Victor Font.
The latter option seems the way to go for my purpose. But curious why FF doesn't have a similar endpoint as GravityForms has? Isn't that a must have feature? Is it possible to submit features that the dev team will look into?
Victor Labigar
replied 1 year ago Can you explain in short what steps are required to build my own endpoint that corresponds with Highrise CMS?
Victor Font
replied 1 year ago I just looked at the source code image you provided. You can do the same exact thing with Formidable that you are doing with GF. That code is nothing more than a PHP function used as a callback for an AJAX request made by your static form.
The URL you would use is yoursite.com/wp-json/frm/v2/entries. Everything else would remain the same. You need to use the Webhooks API add-on. You've already got the code, you just need to make it work with Formidable.
Victor Labigar
replied 1 year ago Thanks for your response andyou're right! I've succeeded to make a POST request with Postman. The entry is now captured by FF and Highrise CMS.
The only thing that i need to figure out is which add_action hook i need to use? The documentation isn't really clear to me.
Same goes for the endpoint that you've mentioned. I would expect an example of how the body data request should look like, which parameters such like "form_id" are required.
Nevertheless I'm very happy that it's possible with FF! 🙂
Victor Labigar answered 1 year ago
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