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Joomla - Embed a SalesForce form in your Joomla article

Written by Jack Bremer

Friday, 31 October 2008

Salesforce - the fantastic online CRM solution for businesses small and large - allows you to easily create forms which will integrate with a website to collect data from your visitors and create the leads instantly.

For this guide, I'll assume that you are au fait with creating the actual forms themselves, so go ahead and make the form with Salesforce and save it as an HTML file (ending in .htm or .html).

What you'll need:

HTML Salesforce form
MosModule Joomla plugin

Create a new static content item to use as the thankyou page.
Search on your site for that item, load it up and copy the web address
Turn off static item searching by going to the Mambot menu, Site Mambots, and clicking on "Search Content" then change the "Static Content NonMenu" to "No" (This will prevent people from stumbling across the thankyou page you just made, while tracking that page as a goal in Google Analytics)
Open up the HTML form in a text editor (Notepad in Windows is fine) and change this line (near the top) by pasting the URL you copied in:
<input type=hidden name="retURL" value="PASTE ENTIRE URL HERE">
Upload your HTML form as a file to your Joomla server using your preferred method (FTP, Media Manager, JCE File Manager etc) and note its location
Install the fabulous MosModule plugin for Joomla
Publish the MosModule plugin
Create a new content item or edit the one you'd like the form to appear in, and use the following code to insert the form:
{mosmodule grabpage=http://www.domain.com/folder/formname.html}
obviously changing the location as appropriate
Link that content item to a menu and you're ready to test it!

Let us know how you get on in the comments...

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1"Thanks..."
on Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:23by caleb

Thanks for the pointer, this is exactly the info I'm looking for.

Anyone have any luck with this? I've got a request from a client to try to get Joomla to play nice with Salesforce, and I'm hoping it works...

2"@ caleb"
on Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:25by Jack Bremer - 3B

@caleb
I've had a lot of luck with these, so just give us a call if you get stuck. Thanks for the comments.

FYI, this would also work with Jumi, and in Joomla v1.5...

3"Mr"
on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 13:43by Mike Paterson

Hi I foillowed all the steps but when adding the module to my article - it appears to do nothing I made sure that the link contained the correct folder and file and that the form is accessible from a browser.

I am using Joomla 1.5.9 and was able to enable ModModule plugin fine, but there is no option to publish it that I can see - Any ideas please?

By the way, I do not seem to be able to find a folder with ModModule though it did install correctly.

Thanks
Mike

4"SalesForce Web-to-lead"
on Friday, 01 May 2009 12:31by David

I've used mod_vivi_code to paste the Salesforce code into a module and publish that module as the web-to-lead form. It works, but I was looking for a way to imbed that same code into an article. So far MosModule seems to allow me to publish the form, but the Submit Query button does not work.

I am also looking for ways to edit the label on the salesforce button to say Submit and not Submit Query, but that' another topic for another forum I suppose.

5"Problem with"
on Wednesday, 01 July 2009 14:49by Luiz

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\xampp\htdocs\en\plugins\content\mosmodule \mosmodule.class.php on line 53

what should I do? Please, send the answer to my email, please.

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