Send Data with PHP

For those of you that use PHP, here is a quick script you can use to send data to your documents and data routes.

$data = array(

    'OrgName' => 'Org 1', 

    'OrgAddress' => 'Address 1', 

    'OrgCity' => 'Orlando', 

    'OrgState' => 'FL', 

    'OrgZip' => '32819'

);



$json_data = json_encode($data); 



$url = 'https://www.webmerge.me/merge/10690/me1ket';



//open connection

$ch = curl_init();



curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json_data);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(

    'Content-Type: application/json',

    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($json_data))

);



//execute post

$result = curl_exec($ch);



//close connection

curl_close($ch);



if ($result) {

    $response = 'Document created successfully. Check WebMerge for more details.';

} else {

    $response = 'No documents created.';

}



echo $response;

Combine PDF Documents

If you'd like to send all your data for multiple merges (of the same document) at once and receive back a "combined" document with all of the individual merges as separate pages, you just need to make one minor adjustment to the code above

$data = array(

    '_combine' => array(

        array(

            'OrgName' => 'Org 1', 

            'OrgAddress' => 'Address 1', 

            'OrgCity' => 'Orlando', 

            'OrgState' => 'FL', 

            'OrgZip' => '32819'

        ),

        array(

            'OrgName' => 'Org 2', 

            'OrgAddress' => 'Address 2', 

            'OrgCity' => 'Orlando', 

            'OrgState' => 'FL', 

            'OrgZip' => '32819'

        ),

    )

);

Notice the individual data sets are wrapped in an array that has a key "_combined". This tells the merge system to create a document with each array inside the _combined key and then create a single PDF