Hi @neilgroll
I hope you’re well today and thank you for your question!
The built-in Webhook isn’t limited to Zapier and similar and it can use any webhook URL provided that the target is capable or handling such POST request.
However, the format and data sent is the same regardless of used URL and there is not “point and click” way to customize it. It could be possible to some degree with additional custom code based on available action/filter hooks.
However, given the case you described, I’d suggest using this code instead:
https://gist.github.com/adczk/a314ad50036ffd449147d28f2e876e2b
It should give you that exact functionality that you need. Note: it says it’s “to send to other form” but in fact it is actually making POST request just like webhook integration but very customizable.
To add it to site:
– simply create an empty file with .php extension (e.g. “forminator-custom-webhook-tool.php)
– copy and paste code into it
– set your form ID and webhook URL in these lines
$form_ids = array( 123 ); // ID of form(s) to push to external source; one or more, comma separated
$target_url = 'https://external-form-action-url.com'; // URL to post data to
– save the file and upload it to the “/wp-content/mu-plugins” folder of your site’s WordPress install.
This should work out of the box but you will want to customize it to your needs and here is how:
1. To define “payload”, look at this part of the code
$field_mapping = array(
'name-1' => 'FIRST_NAME',
'email-1' => 'EMAIL',
);
This sends two form fields – name-1 and email-1 – to webhook under the FIRST_NAME and EMAIL “lables”. You would want to change that to define your fiedls where the left “column” are names of Forminator form fields to be send and the right “column” are names that are used at “target” (webhook).
2. In this part you can define any additional data that you want to send to webhook that are not on the form
$fields_extra = array(
'FORM_ID' => '123',
'HIDDEN_MSG' => 'Hey! I am hidden field!',
);
where on the left you got target variable/field name (so the one on “webhook’s end”) and on the right you got value that should be assigned to it. Note: these aren’t headers; this is sent the same way and together with form data (see p. 1) but just additional in case you wanted to send also data that is not coming from the form.
3. Finally, headers:
$request_args = array(
'method' => 'POST',
'timeout' => 30,
);
In this part (ignore that it says above to not edit) you can add your headers but you need to slightly change it. For example
$request_args = array(
'method' => 'POST',
'timeout' => 30,
'headers' => array(
'Content-Length' => 123,
'Content-Type' => 'text/html'
),
);
That’s just an example of course and you’ll probably want to set your own headers and data but I believe the configuration of this script is pretty simple.
If you have any other/additional questions, let us know.
Best regards,
Adam
