[SOLVED] Please Help Me! I'm New To The EE And Need To Integrate It With Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Sorry for the capitalized letters guys! Can’t change them

You want to post some news in EE that then executes an API posting it to SalesForce? Or the other way around? From SalesForces to EE?

Yes, the first one. I should set up news automation for SF Marketing Cloud. Whenever a company creates new news on the EE, I should send this data to the SFMC, but before put that content in my HTML CSS container. LIke: ‘<style> div {color: red;}</style><div>NEWS CONTENT WILL BE THERE</div>’, it will be a simple string;

It sounds like what you want is actually the after_channel_entry_save hook https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/development/extension-hooks/model/channel-entry.html#after_channel_entry_saveentry-values.

If you’re unfamiliar with creating an extension. Here is a starter one for you that I generated from https://ee-addon-generator.triplenerdscore.xyz/ : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tzhleikgP2XY9-QK2OzGyMpemZniC8ZS/view?usp=sharing

You’ll want to capture the entry data after it’s saved, do whatever you want to it in your PHP (ie. putting it into an HTML formatted string), and push that to your SalesForce API endpoint.

Oh my god, thank you a lot man! Currently, I have almost 00:00 and I will start to develop it in the next 10 hours I guess. But the article which you send me and the code snippet is amazing, thank you again! I’ll write you back for updates.

I reviewed the files and have 2 questions: - In which folder I should put these 2 files and in that function, I will have data, whenever the hook will be triggered? - How to debug in EE, I mean see logs and errors;

so your add-ons go into /system/user/addons assuming no one has changed the name of your system folder. https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/add-ons/overview.html#installing-add-ons

Next, definitely read through the developing extensions guide here: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/development/extensions.html

Regarding debugging, it’s like any other PHP app. You can use tools like Xdebug if that’s what you like. Especially for extensions I like to just write values to files or die and echo out the values so I can see what data is available. I’m not the best extension developer, but if you have zero time, that might be the best way to start. Dump the $values in the extension, then go into EE and save an entry. You’ll see what’s then available.

Here was a conference talk on using Xdebug with EE.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxr2XjFfpgs&list=PL5elGX70z1bhTWETdrvbLA5pOPIDEe9c7&index=12

You can also look for free EE add-ons out there and browse them to see how they are using extensions.|

Hi there! I did it, wrote an extension which on update or creates new entry will send data to the SFMC. Now I get stuck on identifying a new entry type, I should do it only on the news. Maybe I can query it by Entry name and identity that is news? Please help me with it. Values coming from hook don’t show me that.

@Andrii, are you trying to get the channel name? Or do you have a field on your entry called type?

@dougblackjr I’m trying to get the channel name.

@Andrii

So, if you are using the after_channel_entry_save hook, you should be able to get the Channel off of the entry.

The hook comes in like this:

after_channel_entry_save($entry, $values)

So you should be able to do this.

$channel = $entry->Channel;
$channelName = $channel->channel_name;

You can get the channel ID off of the values and query the model yourself.

$channelId = $values['channel_id'];
$channel = ee('Model')->get('Channel')->filter('channel_id', $channelId)->first();
$channelName = $channel->channel_name;

@dougblackjr It works! Thank you a lot!