Very cool!

[carrknowledge]

Well, I thought I knew what the issue was, but I am having a problem still. What exactly is the URI? The reason i ask is that this account is a contact account within a partner account. I just set up the API through the contact account but now wonder if I needed to use the Partner account. If tha tmakes any sense...



Peter

[CC_TomM]

The URI I am referencing is the HTTP address you are referencing in your code. In your code above, for example, this is the URI:
"http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" . $this->account_username . "/contacts";

From a permissions perspective, the value of account_username in this line MUST be the same as the username you are using for access credentials. I think your code is doing this.

However, because of the way you initialize the account_key parameter, you may be including the account_name twice in this string . Ie - you may be passing APIKey+account_username+account_username. (I am not sure what your updated code looks like now).
Can you echo out your userNamePassword parameter name and make sure that this is not the case?

Thanks,

[carrknowledge]

Ok, so I found an error, and corrected it, now I get a result of 1. I assume this means success, since it wasn't in the error codes. Unfortunately I don't see my email address in the Awaiting Confirmation list, nor did I get an opt in email confirmation. Is there something else that I am missing? Thanks so much, you have been super helpful!

[CC_TomM]

Something suspicious here Peter. "1" is not a valid response code. Perhaps you are not capturing the response code, but some other value? I expect to see some error trapping some place after your curl_exec line. Your code says:

$response = curl_exec($session);
curl_close($session);

I do not see where you are testing the HTTP response. For example, the PHP sample code has a block like this:

$response = curl_exec($session);
$httpcode = curl_getinfo($session, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($session);

if ($httpcode > 199 && $httpcode < 300)
{ echo "It works!!" ; // You might want GET the updated Contact and display it }
else
{ echo "<br> There a Problem <br>Error Code: ". $httpcode ; }

Are you (or can you) insert something like this?

[carrknowledge]

Thanks so much Tom! Hopefully this exchange is usefull to someone else some time. Anyway, my $httpcode response is 400. Which, according to that link you sent is a syntax error in the XML (most likely). Here is the XML i am using:

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title type="text"> </title>
<updated>' . date('c') . '</updated>
<author></author>
<id>data:,none</id>
<summary type="text">Contact</summary>
<content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">
<Contact xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/">
<FirstName>' . $this->form_first_name . '</FirstName>
<LastName>' . $this->form_last_name . '</LastName>
<EmailAddress>' . $this->form_email . '</EmailAddress>
<CustomText4>' . $this->form_month . '</CustomText4>
<CustomText5>' . $this->form_day . '</CustomText5>
<OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>
<ContactLists>
<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/' . $this->account_username . '/lists/1" />'
. '<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/' . $this->account_username . '/lists/2" />'
. '</ContactLists>
</Contact>
</content>
</entry>

Let me know if you seen anything in that which would cause an error. Thanks again!

Peter

[CC_TomM]

Hi Peter,

When I make a few changes to your XML, it works for me:
1) Change CustomText4 and 5 to CustomField4 and 5
2) Verify that /lists/1 and lists/2 exist for your account
3) Put a valid value in "Updated" (This field will be populated in the POST, so you can put anything - it just has to have the right format).


This XML worked for me:

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

<title type="text"> </title>

<updated>2008-11-07T22:35:16.497Z</updated>

<author></author>

<id>data:,none</id>

<summary type="text">Contact</summary>

<content type="application/vnd.ctct+xml">

<Contact xmlns="http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/">

<FirstName>' . $this->form_first_name . '</FirstName>

<LastName>' . $this->form_last_name . '</LastName>

<EmailAddress>a1a1a2@test.com</EmailAddress>

<CustomField4>' . $this->form_month . '</CustomField4>

<CustomField5>' . $this->form_day . '</CustomField5>

<OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>

<ContactLists>

<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/MyAccountName/lists/52" />

</ContactLists>

</Contact>

</content>

</entry>

Thanks,

[carrknowledge]

Hey man, thanks so much. I made all of these changes, but I cannot find out how to find my list number. If you could help me do that, i would totally appreciate it!

[CC_TomM]

This resource:
http://developer.constantcontact.com/doc/contactLists
returns a collection of the Contact lists in your account.
Thanks,