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We have a "Contact Us" form that anyone can fill out. When they do, I join them to a group.
However I think that what I really need to do, is make filling out that form an activity that is then assigned to someone to deal with.
So I think I need to use the civicrm_post hook to pick up on the editing of that profile (but in most cases it will be a profile creation - can I use edit?)(I suppose I could use the addition to the group) and then the activity_create API to make the activity. Assuming that's right, I'm not quite clear on how to use the API properly. In particular "source_contact_id" is required. I assume that's the id of the contact that is just being created? How do I specify that?
Who is the "target_contact_id"?
For the "details" I'd like to use the text of their enquiry - which is put into another Custom field. How do I specify that?

My attempt so far below - comments welcome!

function joomla_civicrm_post(edit, Profile, 23)
{
require_once 'api/v2/Activity.php';
 $params = array(
   'activity_type_id' => 28,   
   'source_contact_id' => 1,   
   'assignee_contact_id' => 1,
 //  'target_contact_id' => 123, Not sure there is a contact other than self.
   'subject' => 'Online Enquiry',
   'status_id' => 2,
   'activity_date_time' => date('YmdHis'),
 //  'details' => 'Test Text for moment but would like to have one of the custom fields copied here',
 );
 $act = civicrm_activity_create($params);
}


No, I never worked it out and then real life got in the way!