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Planning

Excellent Web to Lead article

Preparing for a Salesforce Web-to-Lead Integration

Web Apps

From PHP

Sample PHP Script

http://sim.plified.com/2009/02/13/pushing-leads-to-salesforce-with-php/ Pushing Leads to Salesforce with PHP

Sample Code to give Web Developer

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It is just not feasible to use the API to simply create leads. Using the API would require that the Website contact forms are https:// (which means the organisation purchasing and maintaining an SSL Security Certificate), and using a whole extra Salesforce licence to give the API permissions to only write to the Salesforce Leads object and not read all of the data in Salesforce. (At $180/month, I'm am sure that is not something that the org will be willing to pay for). Apparently Salesforce Identity will allow you to use SFDC as the Auth provider for only $1-5/m but I'm not sure technically if or how that would work. See Post in ButtonClick Admins.

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