Mailchimp

Basic abstraction with Laravel integration for Mailchimp API v3

Installation

• composer require nztim/mailchimp
• For Laravel support:
  • Laravel 5.5+ will auto-discover the package, for earlier versions you will need to:
    • Add the service provider to config/app.php: NZTim\Mailchimp\MailchimpServiceProvider::class,
    • Register the facade: 'Mailchimp' => NZTim\Mailchimp\MailchimpFacade::class,
  • Add an .env value for MC_KEY (your API key)
  • Optionally, publish the config file:
    • php artisan vendor:publish --provider=NZTim\Mailchimp\MailchimpServiceProvider

Usage

• Within Laravel 5, use the Mailchimp facade or inject NZTim\Mailchimp\Mailchimp using the container.
• Alternatively, instantiate using the API key: $mc = new NZTim\Mailchimp\Mailchimp($apikey)

// Get an array of all available lists:
Mailchimp::getLists();

// Get lists with parameters - get IDs of lists a user is subscribed to:
Mailchimp::getLists(['email' => '[email protected]', 'fields' => 'lists.id']);

// Check to see if an email address is subscribed to a list:
Mailchimp::check($listId, $emailAddress); // Returns boolean

// Check the staus of a subscriber:
Mailchimp::status($listId, $emailAddress); // Returns 'subscribed', 'unsubscribed', 'cleaned', 'pending', 'transactional' or 'not found'

// Adds/updates an existing subscriber:
Mailchimp::subscribe($listId, $emailAddress, $merge = [], $confirm = true);
// Use $confirm = false to skip double-opt-in if you already have permission.
// This method will update an existing subscriber and will not ask an existing subscriber to re-confirm.

// Unsubscribe a member (set status to 'unsubscribed'):
Mailchimp::unsubscribe($listId, $emailAddress);

// Archive a member (no longer counts towards audience limits):
Mailchimp::archive($listId, $emailAddress);

// Permanently delete a member record:
Mailchimp::delete($listId, $emailAddress);
// Use with care: deleted members cannot be re-added without the user subscribing via a Mailchimp-hosted form with double-opt-in confirmation.

// Directly call the API:
Mailchimp::api($method, $endpoint, $data = []); // Returns an array.

For access to all the member properties available in the v3 API, use the Member class to subscribe and update list members:

$member = (new NZTim\Mailchimp\Member($email))->merge_fields(['FNAME' => 'First name'])->email_type('text')->confirm(false);
Mailchimp::addUpdateMember($member);

As with the subscribe() method, double-opt-in is default but existing members will not be asked to re-verify so you can use the same methods for create and update without needing to check.

Errors

• Exceptions are thrown for all errors.
• Networking/communications errors will usually be of the type Requests_Exception.
• API errors will be of the base type NZTim\Mailchimp\MailchimpException, e.g. incorrect API key, list does not exist.
• NZTim\Mailchimp\Exception\MailchimpBadRequestException includes a response() method that returns the response body as an array.
• Gotchas: the API throws an error when you:
  • Specify a merge field name with incorrect capitalisation
  • Omit a required merge field when adding a new member

Examples

// Laravel:
// Subscribe a user to your list, existing subscribers will not receive confirmation emails
Mailchimp::subscribe('listid', '[email protected]');

// Subscribe a user to your list with merge fields and double-opt-in confirmation disabled
Mailchimp::subscribe('listid', '[email protected]', ['FNAME' => 'First name', 'LNAME' => 'Last name'], false);

// Subscribe/update a user using the Member class
$member = (new NZTim\Mailchimp\Member($email))->interests(['abc123fed' => true])->language('th');
Mailchimp::addUpdateMember('listid', $member);

Upgrading

• To v4.0:
  • PHP 7.4 | 8.0 is now required
  • Use unsub with archive in order to maximise the use of free accounts.
• To v3.0:
  • Exceptions are now thrown for all errors, use try/catch where necessary
  • Double-opt-in is now the default, update Mailchimp::subscribe() as required