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API newbie: how can my script get user input?
October 05, 2010, 07:11:07 pm
Is there a way to give the site visitor an input choice that would direct how my snippet queried the DB (for example, user picks a state out of a dropdown list, and the query pulls contacts from that state only). In a regular PHP script the page would have many "states" depending on whether it had just loaded, just received input, or determined an error. What would be the mechanism for receiving user data from a form field in a CiviCRM Drupal installation?

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Re: API newbie: how can my script get user input?
October 05, 2010, 11:31:05 pm
The example you gave I would solve with standard CiviCRM functionality, by creating groups or tags? Can you do that and use that set up to retrieve the information?
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/GroupsAndTags
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Re: API newbie: how can my script get user input?
October 06, 2010, 02:17:46 am
Quote from: m.e. on October 05, 2010, 07:11:07 pm
What would be the mechanism for receiving user data from a form field in a CiviCRM Drupal installation?

The mechanism is the CiviCRM+Public+APIs. You probably want the AJAX interface.
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Re: API newbie: how can my script get user input?
October 06, 2010, 08:34:58 am
Hershel, I don't get anything on the CiviCRM + Public + APIs link. Can you resend that?

Erik, I don't want to give casual site visitors access to CiviCRM menus. I was planning to give many search/filtering options and then display totals and other info as content.

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Re: API newbie: how can my script get user input?
October 06, 2010, 08:37:19 am
Link got messed up. Sorry. Here it is: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/CiviCRM+Public+APIs

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Re: API newbie: how can my script get user input?
October 06, 2010, 10:03:00 am
That makes sense, I was not clear as to what you are trying to achieve, sorry about that  ;D. Hershel is right, use the API's, directly if you are on the same server and with the REST if you are on another server.
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Re: API newbie: how can my script get user input?
October 06, 2010, 10:08:15 am
OK, thanks. Sounds as if I need to read up on Ajax and then format links as per the following example in the Wiki - ?

http://example.org/civicrm/ajax/rest/civicrm/ajax/rest?fnName=civicrm/contact/search&json=1&contact_type=Organization&rowCount=25&return[country]&tag=40&sort_name=test

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Re: API newbie: how can my script get user input?
October 06, 2010, 10:23:59 am
I recommend you read the chapter on the API's first:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/DevelopAPI
And if you have any questions after reading that, shoot :-)
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