How to send email through MailChimp 3.0 api?

Question

I am trying to send email via mailhimp api version 3.0 in php but I have no luck. This is my code:

$postString = '{ "message": { "html": "this is the emails html content", "text": "this is the emails text content", "subject": "this is the subject", "from_email": " [e-mail] ", "from_name": "John", "to_email": " [e-mail] ", "to_name": "Anton", "track_opens": false, "track_clicks": false }}'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->api_endpoint); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'drewm:'.$this->api_key); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Accept: application/vnd.api+json', 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json')); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'DrewM/MailChimp-API/3.0 (github.com/drewm/mailchimp-api)'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, $this->verify_ssl); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_0); $result = curl_exec($ch); echo $result; 

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

My code here worked for test mail, but basically it is the same for non-test, the URL just changes.

 <?php $apiKey = "your api key found easily in your account"; $campaignId = "your campaign id, you need to create one. Use the playground to get the id"; $memberId = md5(strtolower("membermail")); $dataCenter = substr($apiKey,strpos($apiKey,'-')+1); $url = 'https://'. $dataCenter . '.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/campaigns/' . $campaignId .'/actions/test'; $jsonEmail = '{"test_emails":["the mail you want to send thing sat"],"send_type":"html"}'; $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'apikey:'.$apiKey); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonEmail); $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); var_dump($result); ?> 

you should have the string "0" if all goes well. Wait a moment and mail will be sent.

Good luck

Answer 2

 <?php //require_once('mailchimpint/mcapi/inc/MCAPI.class.php'); $apikey = 'Your api'; $to_emails = array('to email 1', 'toemail 2'); $to_names = array('Name 1', 'Name 2'); $message = array( 'html'=>'Yo, this is the <b>html</b> portion', 'text'=>'Yo, this is the *text* portion', 'subject'=>'This is the subject', 'from_name'=>'Me!', 'from_email'=>'', 'to_email'=>$to_emails, 'to_name'=>$to_names ); $tags = array('WelcomeEmail'); $params = array( 'apikey'=>$apikey, 'message'=>$message, 'track_opens'=>true, 'track_clicks'=>false, 'tags'=>$tags ); $url = "http://us5.sts.mailchimp.com/1.0/SendEmail"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url.'?'.http_build_query($params)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $result = curl_exec($ch); echo $result; curl_close ($ch); var_dump($result); $data = json_decode($result); echo "Status = ".$data->status."\n"; ?>