PARDOT API EXAMPLE

This Repo has some sample PHP scripts of using the Pardot API.

PardotConnector.class.php does all of the talking with the Pardot Api, including authentication and basic prospect actions.

Prospect.class.php is a container for Prospects that sets all prospect data through a data array.

If you are not thinking object oriented (you should be, PHP 5 has been here for a while) then the examples in ProceduralEx.php might help you.

About Pardot

Pardot is a SAAS Marketing Automation Platform. We help you find the buyers interested in actually buying your products. We help shorten sales cycle by helping your marketing department generate useful content and then guage prospect engaugement through the accessing of your content incuding Emails (Targeted Emailing, 1 to 1), Forms, Landing Pages, Social Posts, White Papers, Web page views

When To Use the API

Our API is mostly designed as a way to interface with data gathering or CRM style products. We are also seeing many uses and possibilities for use in CMS's such as custom page scoring, custom campaign management, lister insertion, and more.

Also, check out our crm custom iframes if you are building a crm integration http://www.pardot.com/help/faqs/crm/integration-options-for-other-crms

When to NOT Use the API

We do have occassional requests and questions when clients are trying to do server side requests based on a client side request to their website. Using the API for this is often not optimal for a few reasons

1. No Visitor Tracking Because the client is cookied with a different IP address from your server we can't link the data

2. Many Background Requests We try to make most of our requests take as little time as possible, but to use the API on a web request, you'd have to login to the api, find the prospect you want to update, and save the prospect. This adds a few seconds at best.

Instead

Look at Form Handlers. These allow you to pass prospect data through a get or post request. It can be done man in the middle style by changing your Form actions, or more generically with a hidden Iframe. http://www.pardot.com/help/faqs/forms/form-handlers#Advanced+Topic+%E2%80%94+Posting+data+to+hidden+iframes

We also offer the opportunity to cookie prospects visits with the tracking code that we give clients for campaigns check out http://www.pardot.com/help/faqs/emails/integrating-third-party-email-solution

Disclaimer

I (stephenreid) make no guarantees as to the accuracy of these examples. Most, if not all have never been tested and will require some debugging, coding, etc on your part

I / Pardot make no guarantees as to the accuracy of this document.

As you are free to use this, it also comes with no additional support.

If you do have questions for support, please email them the actual query (url + parameters) that you are trying to make and why the results are not working for you

WE CAN NOT MAKE ESTIMATES ON BUILDING ON THIS CODE