title: DocuSign Custom Connect - How to make a listener in php example?
body: <p>I am new to DocuSign and a novice php programmer looking to setup a DocuSign custom connect with my application.</p>
  
  <p>I am not an expert by any means (<em>taught myself php from reading online</em>), but I can reverse engineer things and figure out how to make things work. <strong>So the short of it is that I would like to see an example of a php listener for DocuSign Connect.</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>The long story</strong> is that I signed for DocuSign primarily so that I can integrate it with my CRM (<em>not natively supported in Docusign</em>). I was told that the API was the way to go and I dove in to that. I have been able to setup a DocuSign API page with powerforms, and then use the API to output the results to my satisfaction. </p>
  
  <p>Then the issue was how to trigger that automatically when a contact completed an envelope so that my CRM can take the information in the envelope (<em>textTabs, dateTabs, checkBoxTabs, etc.</em>) and push them into my CRM, along with the document itself.</p>
  
  <p>That is when I came across the Docusign Connect feature. After reading some of the documentation, it seemed like I was approaching my problem all wrong. The API seems to be more for pushing information into Docusign, and perhaps outputting it on a website. Where the Docusign Connect is designed to react to events and automatically perform actions from the listener - which is exactly what I am looking for.</p>
  
  <p>So I am bit puzzled as to why I was pushed to go for the API solution by the sales team and their tech consultant when the Connect seems to be the way to go (<em>at least from my understanding</em>).</p>
  
  <p>I have already contacted them about this, and they are going to get back to me, but it seems everyone is out of town that would normally deal with this. I am a bit anxious, so I am hoping someone here could help out. Thanks for reading this novel.:)</p>