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How to integrate a Best Contact Form with your existing processing scripts.

Feb 4, 2008 Howto, Introducing

Today we released the ability to integrate a Best Contact Form with any existing processing script. What that means is, let’s say you have a sign up form on your website. When a user fills out your sign up form, the data is sent to your processing script which might validate it and then create a new record in a database. Now, you can leave your processing script as is, and replace your sign up form with a Best Contact Form.

What happens now is that your user will fill out your sign up form (which is actually a Best Contact Form). The data is sent to our servers. We check required fields, Spam Protection, and then archive the data (along with any keywords, referrers, etc.).

Here’s The Magical Part
Next, our form will take all the data that your visitor posted (including any hidden fields you have in your form), and send it back to your processing script. So, your processing script can then validate data, add to the database, or do whatever else you want.

The added benefit now, is that you have keyword data, referrer data, location information, search engine, etc. with any existing form.

Our integration will even map your Best Contact Form Questions to the proper variable names of your existing processing form. The goal is that you should not have to change your existing processing form.

Let us know what you think.

Purchase Forms (Taking Credit Cards)
If you have a long purchase process that gathers lots of information before a customer enters their credit card information. This would be a great example of where to use this. On your page that asks for the Customer’s Personal information (name, address, etc.), you could make this a Best Contact Form, and then forward the data back to your next processing script. That way, credit card information is NOT stored on our servers.

We currently do NOT allow storing credit card information on our servers.

View the Process Here

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Tags: keyword, referrers, sign up form