Adding other parameters to contact object

[JoshuaB286]

I am having trouble getting the first name, last name, and phone number transferred from our web forms to CC.  The code I am using is below.  The email address is successful but the other info is left out.  Any help would be appreciated.

// Check to see which form this came from and assign the POST variable to a local variable

//MCS Registrations First
if (isset($_POST["this_form"]) && $_POST["this_form"] == "http://www.swcdi.org/MCS-Reg-1.htm")
{
$firstName = $_POST["Contact_First_Name"];
$lastName = $_POST["Contact_Last_Name"];
$homePhone = $_POST["Emergency_Phone"];
$emailAddress = $_POST["Email_Address"];
}

//Now do the "contact us" form
if (isset($_POST["this_form"]) && $_POST["this_form"] == "http://www.swcdi.org/contact.htm")
{
$firstName = $_POST["First_Name"];
$lastName = $_POST["Last_Name"];
$homePhone = $_POST["eve_phone"];
$emailAddress = $_POST["email_address"];
}

// Search for our new Email address
$search = $ConstantContact->searchContactsByEmail($emailAddress);

// If the search didnt return a contact object...
if($search == false)
{
// Create a new Contact Object to store data into
$contactObj = new Contact();
// Adding lists to this new Contact Object
$contactObj->lists = array($lists['lists'][0]->id);
// Set the properties for the contact object
$contactObj->firstName = $firstName;
$contactObj->lastName = $lastName;
$contactObj->homePhone = $homePhone;
$contactObj->emailAddress = $emailAddress;
// Create the Contact and DONE
$Contact = $ConstantContact->addContact($contactObj);
}

// Otherwise we update our existing
else 
{
// Gather data from our previous search and store it into a data type
$contactObj = $ConstantContact->getContactDetails($search[0]);
// We need to get the old list and add a new list to it as
// this request requires a PUT and will remove the lists
// as they are stored in an array
array_push($contactObj->lists, $lists['lists'][0]->id );

// Update the contact and DONE
$UpdateContact = $ConstantContact->updateContact($contactObj);
}

[Nick_G]

Hey Joshua,

I'm not seeing any immediate issues with how you're using the wrapper. I would be interested if we could get the value of $firstName before sending it through the function, either by echoing or checking if it is empty. Just as a quick example:

if(empty($firstName)) {
die();
} else {
echo $firstName;
}

 If we can see the value that's trying to go through, we can definitely test some things out with it.

[JoshuaB286]

I just ran that bit of code you suggested to test if a value was transferred from the POST array to the local variable $firstName.  It completed and returned the appropriate value.

Just for fun I checked the values of the other local variables and they all returned correct values.

It must be somewhere with how I am assigning those variables to the parameters of the new contact object.  Thoughts?

[JoshuaB286]

Any thoughts...I still can't get this working.  The email goes through just fine bu the additional information does not show up in the contact.

[Nick_G]

Hey Joshua,

I'd be interested in seeing the contact details of an email address before you pass it through this form. Are you using a completely new contact to the account? A removed contact would also retain some information, so the best troubleshooting step I can think of at this point (unless the contacts you are pushing through the form are already fresh to the account) would be to send through a completely fresh entry, and see if you get the same results.

Depending on the outcome of that test, I might just ask you to zip up your files and email them to us, so I can do the testing with the same environment you're working in.

[JoshuaB286]

Yes..even with a completely fresh contact the email adds correctly but the rest of the info is lost.

[Nick_G]

I'd love to get a look at your files to troubleshoot the problem. Would you be able to zip up your files and email them to webservices@constantcontact.com? We can take a look though and test the same code on our end to figure out the results.