[Question] Trigger hook on form submission, send to external API

[franzos]

I'm trying to set-up a hook, that triggers once a specific form has received a new submission. The goal is, to post the submitted data to an external API. Here's what I have so far:

<?php
$service_url = 'https://api.insight.ly/v2.2/Leads';
$ch = curl_init($service_url);

curl_setopt($ch,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
array('Content-Type: application/json',
'Authorization: Basic ' . base64_encode('1234')));

curl_close($process);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPOST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);

$data = '{
  "FIRST_NAME": $first_name,
  "LAST_NAME": $last_name,
  "MOBILE_PHONE_NUMBER": $mobile_phone_number,
  "EMAIL_ADDRESS": $email_address,
  "ADDRESS_STREET": $address_street,
  "ADDRESS_CITY": "$address_city,
  "ADDRESS_COUNTRY": $address_country,
  "LEAD_STATUS_ID": 1234,
  "LEAD_SOURCE_ID": 1234,
  "LEAD_DESCRIPTION": $comments,
  "LEAD_RATING": 2,
  "RESPONSIBLE_USER_ID": 1234,
}';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$return = curl_exec($ch);
$err = curl_errno($ch);
$msg = curl_error($ch);

error_log($return);

echo $return;

curl_close($ch);
?>

I hope you could advice me on which code hook to use and whether I have populated the placeholders correctly e.g. $first_name. Once I get this up and running, I'll write up a short guide for others!

PS: Cheers to the new website 👍

[benkeen]

Hey @franzos, gah I'm so sorry I missed your question here. Did you end up getting this sorted?

[brunt82]

Hi,

I had the same idea and was looking for an answer: Which hook can I use to send a PHP request to an external API when adding a new submission?

It seems that all three "updateSubmission" hooks are already triggered on the review page. However, the files have not yet been uploaded there, which means they cannot be passed on to the API.

Any ideas?

Thanks and regards