I am trying to implement a validation process within the php wrapper for the new form.
The automatically gets submitted and completely ignores the validation process. Is there any reason why?
<?php
//Initialize the $query_string variable for later use
$query_string = "";
//If there are POST variables
if ($_POST) {
//Initialize the $kv array for later use
$kv = array();
//For each POST variable as $name_of_input_field => $value_of_input_field
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
//Set array element for each POST variable (ie. first_name=Arsham)
$kv[] = stripslashes($key)."=".stripslashes($value);
}
//Create a query string with join function separted by &
$query_string = join("&", $kv);
}
//Check to see if cURL is installed ...
if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
die('Sorry cURL is not installed!');
}
//The original form action URL from Step 2
$url = 'https://www.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.WebToLead?encoding=UTF-8';
//Open cURL connection
$ch = curl_init();
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
if($_POST['first_name'] == ""){
$error="Please enter a topic<br>";
}
if($_POST['last_name'] == ""){
$error="Please enter a topic<br>";
}
if($_POST['phone'] == ""){
$error="Please enter a topic<br>";
}
if($_POST['email'] == ""){
$error="Please enter a topic<br>";
}
if($_POST['company'] == ""){
$error="Please enter a topic<br>";
}
if(isset($error)){
echo $error;
}else{
// Both fields have content in
}
}
//Set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($kv));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $query_string);
//Set some settings that make it all work
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
//Execute SalesForce web to lead PHP cURL
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//close cURL connection
curl_close($ch);
?>