Tutorial | PHP ‘Contact Us’ external form to Netsuite custom record

In this tutorial we are going to create a php external form that would serve as a “Contact Us” page to a website. Every submitted record will be saved to a custom record in Netsuite.

1. Create a custom record. Setup > Customization > Record Types > New

Name: Contact Us
ID: customrecord_contact_us
Internal ID: xx

2. Create three custom fields for the created “Contact Us” custom record.

Name: Title
ID: custrecord_contact_us_title
Type: Free-Form Text
Store Value = true

Name: Email
ID: custrecord_contact_us_email
Type: Email Address
Store Value = true

Name: Message
ID: custrecord_contact_us_message
Type: Text Area
Store Value = true

3. For the webservice application we are going to use PHP and PHPToolkit from Netsuite. PHP Toolkit can be download here
4. Create the php form

Title




Email




Message

5. Here is the code for PHP Netsuite webservice

Include the libraries necessary library in your PHP file, make sure that your directory is set correctly. The login_info.php should contain your Netsuite credentials.

	require_once 'PHPtoolkit.php';
	require_once 'login_info.php';
	global $myNSclient;

Receive post data from the form and store in variables.

	$title = $_POST['title'];
	$email = $_POST['email'];
	$message = $_POST['message'];

For custom record objects on PHP Toolkit the internal id is the integer id and not the string id.

	$customRecord = new nsComplexObject('CustomRecord');
	$recordTypeRef = new nsRecordRef(array(
		'type'=>'customRecord',
		'internalId'=>'67'));

Free-form text, Email address and Text Area are all string objects.

	$field_title = new nsComplexObject('StringCustomFieldRef');
	$field_title->setFields(array(
		'internalId' => 'custrecord_contact_us_title',
		'value' => $title));

	$field_email = new nsComplexObject('StringCustomFieldRef');
	$field_email->setFields(array(
		'internalId' => 'custrecord_contact_us_email',
		'value' => $email));

	$field_message = new nsComplexObject('StringCustomFieldRef');
	$field_message->setFields(array(
		'internalId' => 'custrecord_contact_us_message',
		'value' => $message));

Set the custom field list to the custom record object.

	$customFieldList = array($field_title, $field_email, $field_message);

	$customRecord->setFields(array(
		'recType' => $recordTypeRef,
		'customFieldList' => $customFieldList
		));

Add the custom record.

try
{
	$addResponse = $myNSclient->add($customRecord);

	// handle add response
	if(isset($addResponse))
	{
		if ($addResponse->isSuccess)
		{
			echo "SUCCESS";
		}
		else
		{
			echo "" . $addResponse->statusDetail[0]->message . "";
			echo "";
		}
	}
}
catch(Exception $e)
{
	echo $e;
}

You can download the source code here.