The issue is that the user does not know that this information was populated based on the url. Once they leave the page this information is lost.
The merge function also does not work on hidden fields.
Ahh I do not have the right version of salesforce for (API access) this should be specified 🙁
I had to install the soap directory in my php build. I did this in WHM
I am running 5.3.17 and I still have this issue?