I am starting a new project and I have a few decisions to make in regards to user submitted forms. I will be using the PHP Laravel framework for this project. Here is a quick rundown of where forms can be submitted from:
- Frontend (consumer facing) portion of the website
- The customer's "My Account" portal
- Our internal custom CRM that customer service reps can use to take orders
There are approximately 20 different services that we offer. And I would like for all of our services to be available for purchase from the 3 different locations listed above. Also, a quick note, all 3 locations have different UIs. Here is what I would like to achieve if possible:
- I do not want to manually/hard code the HTML form inputs for all 20 services for the 3 locations above
- It would be ideal if I could call an internal API (or some other method) which would provide me the form structure/steps/inputs and I could parse that and build the form according to the UI of where it will be placed
This is a theory I have always wanted to attempt but I am just not sure if this is the way professionals would do it.
