Gravity Forms - Constant Contact Post problem

[dmd33]

Hi, I posted this over on the Wordpress support forms today:

I am running into an issue with this plugin. I am trying to pass several mailing list names from Gravity Forms to Constant contact. Constant contact requires them to be submitted like this:

http://yourdomain.com/CCSFG_x.x.x/signup.php?EmailAddress=jsmith@yourdomain.com&Lists=ListName

If you are using multiple lists it should look like this &Lists[]=List1&Lists[]=List2&Lists[]=List3

This plugin is passing the list selection along like this: &Lists[]=List1,List2,List3 Is there a way to force the plugin to use the entire field name each time?

second post:

I tried two workarounds without success: I changed the separator to &Lists[]= but it didnt work. Then I removed the separator entirely and set two of the field values in Gravity Forms to &Lists[]=ListName1 and &Lists[]=ListName2 and that didn't work.

Using both of these methods fields post like this:

[FirstName] => NAME1 [LastName] => NAME2 [EmailAddress] => EMAIL@DOMAIN.COM [CountryCode] => US [City] => CITY [StateCode] => AL [PostalCode] => 99999 [Lists[]] => LIST1&Lists[]=LIST2&Lists[]=LIST3

Is there any way to separate the last line into three separate [Lists[]} => lines?

[zaus]

hm...i'm looking into it, and it's a little complicated to format correctly (see similar issue, example). i'll see what i can come up with, but in the meantime you could use the ...service_filter_post hook as a place to split up the list and replace the post string.

Something like:

function forms3rdparty_list_fix($post, $service, $form, $sid) {
    // what to replace
    $field = 'List';
    $list = $post[$field];
    //remove so it doesn't get urlified
    unset($post[$field]);
    // turn into querystring so you can append formatted list
    $post = http_build_query($post);
    // append list in correct format
    $post .= $field . '[]=' . implode('&' . $field . '[]=', explode($service['separator'], $list));
    // expose back to submission
    return $post; 
}
add_filter('Forms3rdPartyIntegration_service_filter_post', 'forms3rdparty_list_fix', 10, 4);

[dmd33]

I will look into this, it might be a little beyond my capabilities though.

[zaus]

Can you try the branch: https://github.com/zaus/forms-3rdparty-integration/tree/issue-8 -- see instructions at https://github.com/zaus/forms-3rdparty-integration/tree/issue-8#i-need-to-submit-multiple-values-as

[dmd33]

Hi, it doesn't seem to be working. The POST is very screwy looking now.

[timeout] => 10 [body] => FirstName=NAME&LastName=NAME&EmailAddress=NAME2%40DOMAIN.COm&CountryCode=COUNTRY&City=CITY+CITY&StateCode=STATE&PostalCode=ZIP&Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST1&Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST2l&Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST3

[zaus]

That should be fine -- it's url-encoded. What does it look like coming from the service response?

[zaus]

In fact, if you test it using the service debug you should see the array come back as expected.

[dmd33]

Thanks so much for your help with this. Here is the complete debug message coming from the built in service test.

*** Service ***
Array
(
    [name] => Constant Contact
    [url] => http://www.domain.com/wp-content/plugins/forms-3rdparty-integration/3rd-parties/service_test.php
    [forms] => Array
        (
            [0] => gf_8
        )

    [success] => <div id="code" title="201"></div><h3>Thank you!</h3><p>Your interest preferences have been successfully recorded.</p>
    [failure] => <div id="code" title="400"></div><h3>We're Sorry!</h3><p>It appears that you were not added to our mailing list.
            This may be due to one or more of the following reasons:
            <ol>
                <li>You have misspelled your email address</li>
                <li>You did not choose a list to subscribe to</li>
                <li>The system may be busy. Please try again later</li>
            </ol>
            </p>
    [timeout] => 10
    [mapping] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => first name
                    [src] => input_12_3
                    [3rd] => FirstName
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => last name
                    [src] => input_12_6
                    [3rd] => LastName
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => email
                    [src] => input_3_2
                    [3rd] => EmailAddress
                )

            [3] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => country
                    [src] => input_16
                    [3rd] => CountryCode
                )

            [4] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => city
                    [src] => input_13
                    [3rd] => City
                )

            [5] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => state
                    [src] => input_14
                    [3rd] => StateCode
                )

            [6] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => Zip
                    [src] => input_15
                    [3rd] => PostalCode
                )

            [7] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => fish
                    [src] => input_11_1
                    [3rd] => Lists[]
                )

            [8] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => Corals
                    [src] => input_11_2
                    [3rd] => Lists[]
                )

            [9] => Array
                (
                    [lbl] => General
                    [src] => input_11_3
                    [3rd] => Lists[]
                )

        )

    [separator] => []
)

*** Post (Form) ***
http://www.domain.com/register/
Array
(
    [input_12_3] => User
    [input_12_6] => User
    [input_3] => user@domain.com
    [input_3_2] => user@domain.com
    [input_16] => US
    [input_13] => City
    [input_14] => AL
    [input_15] => 999999
    [input_11_1] => LIST1
    [input_11_2] => LIST2
    [input_11_3] => LIST3
    [is_submit_8] => 1
    [gform_submit] => 8
    [gform_unique_id] => 
    [state_8] => XXX
    [gform_target_page_number_8] => 0
    [gform_source_page_number_8] => 1
    [gform_field_values] => 
)

*** Post (to Service) ***
Array
(
    [timeout] => 10
    [body] => FirstName=User&LastName=User&EmailAddress=user%40domain.com&CountryCode=US&City=City&StateCode=AL&PostalCode=999999&Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST1&Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST2&Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST3
)

*** Response ***
Array
(
    [headers] => Array
        (
            [server] => cloudflare-nginx
            [date] => Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:46:58 GMT
            [content-type] => text/plain
            [connection] => close
            [set-cookie] => __XXXX; expires=Mon, 23-Dec-2019 23:50:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.domain.com; HttpOnly
            [vary] => Accept-Encoding
            [cf-ray] => XXXXXX
        )

    [body] => --- POST ---
Array
(
    [FirstName] => User
    [LastName] => User
    [EmailAddress] => user@domain.com
    [CountryCode] => US
    [City] => City
    [StateCode] => AL
    [PostalCode] => 999999
    [Lists] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [0] => LIST1
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [0] => LIST2
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [0] => LIST3
                )

        )

)

--- GET ---
Array
(
)

--- META ---
Array
(
    [REQUEST_METHOD] => POST
    [QUERY_STRING] => 
    [HTTP_HOST] => www.domain.com
    [HTTP_REFERER] => 
    [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => WordPress/3.8.1; http://www.domain.com
)

--- HEADERS ---
(getallheaders)
Array
(
    [X-Real-IP] => XXXXXX
    [Host] => www.orafarm.com
    [X-Forwarded-For] => XXXXX, XXXXX
    [Connection] => close
    [Accept-Encoding] => gzip
    [CF-Connecting-IP] => XXXXXX
    [CF-IPCountry] => US
    [CF-RAY] => XXXXXXX
    [Content-Length] => 184
    [X-Forwarded-Proto] => http
    [CF-Visitor] => {"scheme":"http"}
    [User-Agent] => WordPress/3.8.1; http://www.DOMAIN.com
    [Accept] => */*
    [Content-Type] => application/x-www-form-urlencoded
)

    [response] => Array
        (
            [code] => 200
            [message] => OK
        )

    [cookies] => Array
        (
            [0] => WP_Http_Cookie Object
                (
                    [name] => __cfduid
                    [value] => xxxxxxx
                    [expires] => 1577145000
                    [path] => /
                    [domain] => .xxxxxx.com
                    [httponly] => 
                )

        )

    [filename] => 
)

[dmd33]

Is it doubling up on the []? It looks like this -> &Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST1&Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST2&Lists%5B%5D%5B%5D=LIST3 would translate to this -> &Lists[][]+List1&Lists[][]=List2&Lists[][]=List3
Constant Contact would want to see -> &Lists[]=List1&Lists[]=List2&Lists[]=List3

I will try changing the field name to simply Lists and see if that fixes it.

[zaus]

Yes I was just about to suggest that -- you don't need to suffix [] in the field mapping when you use [] as the separator

[dmd33]

Working now. This is really great. You should consider making a paid plugin for Gravity Forms and Constant Contact. There are two other options out there but neither support list selection. As far as I can tell this is the only way to do it. The only problem is that is uses version 1 of their API and it is deprecated but supported for now. Maybe you could figure it out with version 2. I would pay for it for sure! Thanks so much!

[zaus]

Thanks! I'll merge this branch and push it to WP.org too.

Send me contact details through my site if you're interested in pursuing further/custom plugin development. ;)