Comments on: The Submit API is Released!

By: Bush

Bush — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:37:52 +0000

I have been looking for sites like this for a long time. Thank you!u

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:19:26 +0000

Glad you got it now, Larry. If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

By: Larry Wood

Larry Wood — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:58:54 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I finally got it. Somehow I missed the part about the coming back with a “success” and then my being able to do the re-direct from my site.

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:57:27 +0000

Larry, when I listed those examples, I was just trying to give some potential possibilities of what you could do with the API. There are some basic examples and the documentation at http://wufoo.com/docs/api/submit/.

The API does require programming knowledge since the form is hosted on your servers, and you must programatically submit the data to Wufoo.

If, for example, you wanted to redirect the user depending on how they filled out the form, you could create a form, have it submit to Wufoo through the API, and then redirect them to different websites based off of their answers. Since the form is hosted on your site and you can control the complete user experience, you can decide what happens to them after a successful submission.

So, let’s you had a radio button called “Radio” with the options of “yes”, or “no”. After the data is submitted to Wufoo, you will have a JSON string returned to you letting you know if the submission was successful or not. If the submission was successful you could then write some code that says

if radio = ‘yes’ redirect to google.com elseif radio = ‘no’ redirect to yahoo.com

Since you’re in complete control of the process, the possibilities are endless.

By: Larry Wood

Larry Wood — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:41:26 +0000

Ryan, I appreciate you reply, but I still wonder where is the documentation on how to:

“Redirect users to different locations depending on how they filled out the form,” or how to

“Hook Wufoo up to your payment gateway”.

Sorry if I’m being dense, but the only documentation I see is for the three items referred to above, and as I reviewed those, I didn’t see how that related to the other two kinds of things I’m interested in doing.

By: Ryan Campbell

Ryan Campbell — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:17:01 +0000

Larry, the one API (Submit Data) allows you to do all of these 6 things and more. The API allows you to programmatically submit data to your Wufoo account, but since it is submitted under your terms, you can do whatever you like before, during, and after the submission. If you wish to send a custom email, or redirect the user, you can because you're controlling the submission with your own code.

You may be looking for examples on how to do all of these things. We have provided basic examples to get users started with the API. As we develop more, and as the community develops more, we will add them as examples.

By: Larry Wood

Larry Wood — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:55:41 +0000

What am I missing? I see a list of six items, which are claimed to be but a few of the things I can do. But when I go to the documentation, I find information on only these three:

Submit Data Query Data Accessing a Report