How to use the Constant Contact API?

Question

I want to use the constant contact API and I want to embed the user's email using PHP while the user is logging on to the site.

answer if any help.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

// fill in your Constant Contact login and API key $ccuser = 'USERNAME_HERE'; $ccpass = 'PASS_HERE'; $cckey = 'APIKEY_HERE'; // fill in these values $firstName = ""; $lastName = ""; $emailAddr = ""; $zip = ""; // represents the contact list identification number(s) $contactListId = INTEGER_OR_ARRAY_OF_INTEGERS_HERE; $contactListId = (!is_array($contactListId)) ? array($contactListId) : $contactListId; $post = new SimpleXMLElement('<entry></entry>'); $post->addAttribute('xmlns', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'); $title = $post->addChild('title', ""); $title->addAttribute('type', 'text'); $post->addChild('updated', date('c')); $post->addChild('author', ""); $post->addChild('id', 'data:,none'); $summary = $post->addChild('summary', 'Contact'); $summary->addAttribute('type', 'text'); $content = $post->addChild('content'); $content->addAttribute('type', 'application/vnd.ctct+xml'); $contact = $content->addChild('Contact'); $contact->addAttribute('xmlns', 'http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/'); $contact->addChild('EmailAddress', $emailAddr); $contact->addChild('FirstName', $firstName); $contact->addChild('LastName', $lastName); $contact->addChild('PostalCode', $zip); $contact->addChild('OptInSource', 'ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER'); $contactlists = $contact->addChild('ContactLists'); // loop through each of the defined contact lists foreach($contactListId AS $listId) { $contactlist = $contactlists->addChild('ContactList'); $contactlist->addAttribute('id', 'http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/' . $ccuser . '/lists/' . $listId); } $posturl = "https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{$ccuser}/contacts"; $authstr = $cckey . '%' . $ccuser . ':' . $ccpass; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $posturl); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $authstr); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post->asXML()); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type:application/atom+xml")); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); // Do not return headers curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0); // If you set this to 0, it will take you to a page with the http response $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); // returns true on success, false on error return (!is_numeric($response)); 

Answer 2

ConstantContact developers launched the PHP library to handle such tasks.

The next version is for older versions of PHP (5.2 or less). Download the code from here: https://github.com/constantcontact/ctct_php_library

The following is an example of adding a subscriber email to your permanent contact lists.

After downloading the above library, use the following code to add the letter to the constant contact list.

 session_start(); include_once('ConstantContact.php'); // Set path accordingly $username = 'YOUR_CONSTANT_CONTACT_USER_NAME'; $apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY'; $password = 'YOUR_CONSTANT_CONTACT_PASSWORD'; $ConstantContact = new Constantcontact("basic", $apiKey, $username, $password); $emailAddress = " [e-mail] "; // Search for our new Email address $search = $ConstantContact->searchContactsByEmail($emailAddress); // If the search did not return a contact object if($search == false){ $Contact = new Contact(); $Contact->emailAddress = $emailAddress; //$Contact->firstName = $firstName; //$Contact->lastName = $lastName; // represents the contact list identification link(s) $contactList = LINK_OR_ARRAY_OF_LINKS_HERE; // For example, // "http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/USER_NAME/lists/14"; $Contact->lists = (!is_array($contactList)) ? array($contactList) : $contactList; $NewContact = $ConstantContact->addContact($Contact); if($NewContact){ echo "Contact Added. This is your newly created contact information<br /><pre>"; print_r($NewContact); echo "</pre>"; } } else { echo "Contact already exist."; } 

Note. The latest version can be found on the GitHub links provided at the following URL: http://developer.constantcontact.com/libraries/sample-code.html But I'm not sure if the code above works with the new library or not.

Answer 3

If you cannot get this to work, you may need to add this curl_setopt:

 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);