Get List ID & Submit Email/Subscriber to MailChimp via cURL

mailchimp-curl

<?php

$api_key = 'API KEY';
$prefix = 'usX'; //at the end of your API Key, there is a -us1, or us2, etc......you want the prefix to be the us2 for examples.

//Let's go Get a LIST ID for the subscriber list we are going to be putting content in.
	$get_lists = 'http://'.$prefix.'.api.mailchimp.com/1.3/?method=lists';

	$data = array();
	$data['apikey'] = $api_key;

	$post_str = '';
	foreach($data as $key=>$val) {
		$post_str .= $key.'='.urlencode($val).'&';
	}

	$post_str = substr($post_str, 0, -1);
	
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $get_lists);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_str);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
	$response = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	
	$output = json_decode($response);
	$list_id = $output->data[0]->id; //this dives into our first list ID.
	
//Now let'see if we have a List ID to work with, and then submit the subscriber
if(!empty($list_id)){
	$push_subscriber = 'http://'.$prefix.'.api.mailchimp.com/1.3/?method=listSubscribe';

	$data = array();
	$data['apikey'] = $api_key;
	$data['id'] = $list_id;
	$data['email_address'] = '[email protected]';
	$data['merge_vars[FNAME]'] = 'Christopher';
	$data['merge_vars[LNAME]'] = 'Jones';
	$data['output'] = 'json';

	$post_str = '';
	foreach($data as $key=>$val) {
		$post_str .= $key.'='.urlencode($val).'&';
	}

	$post_str = substr($post_str, 0, -1);
	
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $push_subscriber);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_str);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
	$response = curl_exec($ch);
	curl_close($ch);
	
	$output = json_decode($response); //will return a 1 or 0, true or false.
}
?>