Comments on: Integrate your MailChimp Newsletter Subscription

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:02:30 +0000

Sorry it’s “pastebin.com”, what happens if you output the post array to your screen (print_r($_POST);)

By: david

david — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:12:32 +0000

pastbin.com seems to be dead. the Field name and value of my form is “firstname”. I use .$_POST["firstname"]. When sending through the form entries to my email.

I’ve also tried defining this $firstname then merge_vars[MMERGE1]=$firstname but mailchimp shows the first name as “$firstname” rather than the entry. I’ve also tried echoing this variable with the same result.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:05:36 +0000

David, you need to check the (form) variable name/value for $ffname.
If you want me to check your code please post it @pastebin.com (posting code using the comment form doesn’t work)

By: david

david — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:29:19 +0000

thank you for your reply.

I now get no information in the firstname feild.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:46:46 +0000

Hi David,

replace
merge_vars[MMERGE1]=firstname
with
merge_vars[MMERGE1]=%s

and it will work

By: david

david — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:14:55 +0000

Hi I’m using this:

$url = sprintf('http://us2.api.mailchimp.com/1.3/?method=listSubscribe&apikey=%s&id=%s&email_address=%s&merge_vars[OPTINIP]=%s&merge_vars[MMERGE1]=firstname&output=json', $api, $list_id, $emailaddress, $merge_vars, $ffname, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);

but the name posted in the firstname field is just firstname…any help?

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:20:55 +0000

Hi, it should work if you change your HTML a little bit (use the same names for the fields email and the subscribe checkbox).

By: Cappy

Cappy — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:30:20 +0000

I have a custom php script which has a checkbox and a textbox(email address) within it for subscribing to the newsletter. Will the above code work for my needs?

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:31:10 +0000

Ed, looks to me that the ampersand symbols are missing. Search also google for “query string” to get more information how the variable/value pairs in a URL have to look like.

By: Ed Wieczorek

Ed Wieczorek — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:50:38 +0000

Thanks for your quick reply! Just to clarify. If my MMERGE1 field was Firstname would my version be[MMERGE1]=Firstname?I figured if that is the way it works would I separate them with ampersands? like so?

$url = sprintf('http://api.mailchimp.com/1.2/?method=listSubscribe&apikey=%s&id=%s&email_address=%s&merge_vars[OPTINIP]=%smerge_vars[MMERGE1]=Firstname&[MMERGE2]=Lastname&[MMERGE3]=Subject&output=json', $apikey, $listID, $email, $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);