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01-02-2009
03:45 PM
An easy way to get your list numbers is to log in to your Constant Contact account, go to Contacts, and find the list of your list(s) under "My Lists". Hold your cursor over the list you want, and look at the URL -- the list number is the "listId". For example, you might see something like "&listId=2".
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11-24-2008
04:01 PM
Did you set the correct numbers in the XML for your contact lists? The ones in the example are just that -- examples -- yours may be different:
<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/' . $UN . '/lists/1" />' // Do this for all the lists you want to add to
The list number is at the end of the URI.
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11-24-2008
10:06 AM
Since I started using the API last week to add contacts to our lists, I've had several hundred people successfully added. However in our "Updated Subscriber Notice" email today, it says we only got two new subscribers.
How can I get the new subscribers to show up in the weekly report?
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11-21-2008
10:48 AM
The problem is that $_REQUEST only retrieves the variables $_GET, $_PUT, or $_COOKIE, which are not the same as the constants.
For example, if my site user name is joesgarage, $_REQUEST is really $_REQUEST. But there is no $_REQUEST. There is $_REQUEST, and there is PARAM_NAME_USER_NAME, both of whose correct value should be 'joesgarage'. Big difference.
In other words, both $_REQUEST and PARAM_NAME_USER_NAME equal 'joesgarage', but $_REQUEST does not -- in fact, it doesn't even exist.
So if your script calls $_REQUEST, it looks for $_REQUEST, which it cannot find.
If your script calls $_REQUEST, it finds it with the value 'joesgarage' (assuming that it was entered into the form field), which is correct, and authenticates the login.
If it calls PARAM_NAME_USER_NAME, it also finds 'joesgarage'.
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11-20-2008
10:52 AM
Here's a sample script to create a new contact. It's assuming you have a member signup form on your page that has collected first name, last name, email address, and zip code.
This is based on the "SAMPLE: PUT (Update) a Contact (PHP)" script found here:
http://developer.constantcontact.com/samples/putSubscriber
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<?php
$first_name = trim($_POST);
$last_name = trim($_POST);
$email = trim($_POST);
$zipcode = $_POST;
/////////// REGISTER EMAIL WITH CONSTANT CONTACT ///////////////////
$UN = "your_member_name_here";
$PW = "your_password_here";
$Key = "your_API_key_here";
$entry = '<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/">
<EmailAddress>' . $email . '</EmailAddress>
<FirstName>' . $first_name . '</FirstName>
<LastName>' . $last_name . '</LastName>
<PostalCode>' . $zipcode . '</PostalCode>
<OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER</OptInSource>
<ContactLists>
<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/' . $UN . '/lists/1" />' // Do this for all the lists you want to add to
. '<ContactList id="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/' . $UN . '/lists/2" />' // Be sure to get the correct list number(s) for your list(s)
. '</ContactLists>
</Contact>
</content>
</entry>';
// Initialize the cURL session
$request ="http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" . $UN . "/contacts";
$session = curl_init($request);
// Set up digest authentication
$userNamePassword = $Key . '%' . $UN . ':' . $PW ;
// Set cURL options
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $userNamePassword);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS , $entry);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type:application/atom+xml"));
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); // Do not return headers
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // If you set this to 0, it will take you to a page with the http response
// Execute cURL session and close it
$response = curl_exec($session);
curl_close($session);
////////////////// END REGISTER EMAIL WITH CONSTANT CONTACT ///////////////////////
// Your code goes here: typically sending a confirmation email, and/or a Header("Location: your_page.php") redirect
?>
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11-18-2008
10:24 AM
I got the sample scripts to work. There are some errors in them:
In Functions.php and getLists.php, the constants are in the request variables, and that's why the scripts don't work.
In Functions.php, instead of:
$userNamePassword = $_REQUEST . '%' . $_REQUEST . ':' . $_REQUEST;
it needs to be:
$userNamePassword = PARAM_NAME_API_KEY . '%' . PARAM_NAME_USER_NAME . ':' . PARAM_NAME_PASSWORD;
And in getLists.php, instead of:
$xml = executeRequest(URI . '/ws/customers/' . $_REQUEST . '/lists');
it needs to be either:
$xml = executeRequest(URI . '/ws/customers/' . PARAM_NAME_USER_NAME . '/lists');
or:
$xml = executeRequest(URI . '/ws/customers/' . $_REQUEST . '/lists');
(I think the latter is more appropriate since this is an authentication form.)
If you make the above changes, these sample scripts work fine. Otherwise, no go. I haven't checked the other scripts in the php samples, but I fear that the same mistakes might be in them too.
Thanks for your help on this -- and yes, I understand that these functions are not what I need for my project -- I was just trying to get them to work as an exercise in understanding how the the API works.
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11-17-2008
06:16 PM
Thanks very much -- okay, the browser test works as above.
Still getting stuck on the php sample code. Here are the constants settings in Constants.php:
define("PARAM_NAME_API_KEY", "my_api_key");
define("PARAM_NAME_USER_NAME", "my_user_name");
define("PARAM_NAME_PASSWORD", "my_password");
define("HOST", "api.constantcontact.com");
define("URI", "http://api.constantcontact.com");
define("LOCAL_BASE_URL", "http://localhost/");
I've also tried using the concatenated version for PARAM_NAME_USER_NAME, and also entered both the concatenated and unconcatenated usernames in the form for both versions. Still getting 401 error.
I also tried changing "localhost" to the actual URL of my site.
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11-17-2008
05:41 PM
Still no luck -- on the php sample page: still a 401 error.
At
http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/my_api_key%my_username/lists
I get: 400 Bad Request.
Nothing unusual with the user name or password. Originally the password had an ampersand in it, but I got rid of it.
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11-17-2008
04:58 PM
I'm having trouble getting out of the gates -- I read the docs, downloaded the sample php docs, changed the constants to my own api key, user name, and password, uploaded them to my site... and can't get my username/password to work.
When I try to log in on the index page of the sample php scripts (it goes to getLists.php), I get a 401 error.
When I try to go straight to a page such as http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/my_username/lists , it won't accept my username/password.
I've quadruple checked my api key, username and password, and I've definitely not mistyped them or anything. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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11-17-2008
01:17 PM
I've been using the php cURL library to register new members to our website to our Constant Contact contact list for about a year, but suddenly on November 1st, it stopped working -- no more signups despite hundreds of new members.
The POSTURL I've been using is http://visitor.constantcontact.com/optin_eval.jsp .
There are a number of variables in the query string (m, sn, pp, fc, bc, etc.).
I'm wondering if this URL, or the variables, have changed? Or some other reason it stopped working?
I can post my complete code if you like.
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