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David_J · ‎04-23-2014

You're actually very close. That error message is just letting you know that the email content needs to be wrapped in html and body tags, ie: <html><body>This is my HTML content</body></html> The form in the example is just meant as a demonstration of how one could create and schedule an email campaign. You can pull out portion of the code that actually does the creation and do without the entire form if that's what suits your needs.

David_J · ‎04-23-2014

It's hard to say what exactly the problem is, but I did just successfully test this so I do not believe it is an issue wih the library. You should be able to download a zip from: https://github.com/constantcontact/php-sdk/archive/master.zip You can extract this zip into your web root, which by default will probably make a folder called 'php-sdk-master' (but you can rename this to whatever you want). Then you would want to modify php-sdk-master/examples/createAndScheduleCampaign.php (lines 31 & 32) to add your apikey/access token: // Enter your Constant Contact APIKEY and ACCESS_TOKEN define("APIKEY", "ENTER YOUR API KEY"); define("ACCESS_TOKEN", "ENTER YOUR ACCESS TOKEN"); You can then hit /examples/createAndScheduleCampaign.php in your broswer and properly run the example.

David_J · ‎05-21-2013

Thanks for your post on this. I apologize that this caused an issue and took so much of your time to diagnose. After doing a little bit of research, it appears this is not entirely related to the PHP version you are using, but also php.ini configuration options. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.arg-separator.output for more details. That beings said, I see no reason to NOT explicitly specify '&' as the separator when using http_build_query, so I will get this change into the library. Thanks again for your efforts! Update: The following pull request was merged and contains your fix: https://github.com/constantcontact/php-sdk/pull/14

David_J · ‎04-18-2013

Hi Peter, It looks like you're just missing the Content-Type header from this request. Try changing: curl_setopt( $Request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Content-Length: ' . strlen( $RequestJson) ) ); to: curl_setopt( $Request, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Content-Length: ' . strlen( $RequestJson), 'Content-Type: application/json' ) ); This should resolve that error message you are seeing about the invalid Content-Type header.

David_J · ‎05-27-2011

Hi there, I'm glad you found the CCSFG, this is an application that will generate HTML forms that will point back to the CCSFG files to do necessary work before the XML is sent over to Constant Contact to add your contact. If you're looking to get even more control over the process and do this yourself, the relevant documentation you would need would be: Creating a Contact - This is information on adding a brand new contact Updating Contact's Information - This is information on updating an already existing contact Adding a Contact to a Contact List - This is information on how to update a contact to add them to a new list (note, this is not a different process than Updating a Contact's Information, but explains on more detail how to add another list that the contact is subscribed to.) I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns regarding this. Thanks.

David_J · ‎05-27-2011

I think this will do what you are looking for. Please let me know if this resolves your issue? string sUsername = "YOUR USERNAME" ; string sPassword = "YOUR PASSWORD" ; string sAPIKey = "YOUR API KEY" ; NetworkCredential loginInfo = new NetworkCredential ( sAPIKey + "%" + sUsername, sPassword ) ; HttpWebRequest ctctRequest = ( HttpWebRequest ) WebRequest . Create ( "https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" + sUsername + "/events" ) ; ctctRequest . Method = "GET" ; ctctRequest . Credentials = loginInfo ; ctctRequest . Accept = "application/atom+xml" ; HttpWebResponse ctctResponse = ctctRequest . GetResponse ( ) as HttpWebResponse ; StreamReader responseStream = new StreamReader ( ctctResponse . GetResponseStream ( ) ) ; string responseText = responseStream . ReadToEnd ( ) ; ctctResponse . Close ( ) ; responseStream . Close ( ) ; MessageBox . Show ( responseText ) ; sadflkasdf

David_J · ‎05-27-2011

Unfortunately this is an issue we ran into a little while ago that we are looking to resolve, but I don't have an exact date of when that is going to be fixed. With that being said, if you obtain the details for this event by using the URI presented in the href value in the <link> node, ie: <atom:link rel="edit" href="/ws/customers/epiphanysol/events/a07e3ujxr2tcad71e70" /> This will give you the appropriate event registration URL you are looking for. I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any other questions regarding this. Thanks!

David_J · ‎05-27-2011

The C# Library has a Utility.bulkUrlEncoded() function which can handle this for you. A quick example of using this would be: AuthenticationData authdata = new AuthenticationData ( ) ; authdata . Username = "USERNAME" ; authdata . Password = "PASSWORD" ; authdata . ApiKey = "APIKEY" ; List < string > lists = new List < string > ( ) ; String lineBreak = HttpUtility . UrlDecode ( "%0A" ) ; lists . Add ( "https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{username}/lists/{list-id}" ) ; String myString = "Email Address,First Name,Last Name" + lineBreak + "wstest3@example.com, Fred, Test" + lineBreak + "wstest4@example.com, Joan, Test" ; String response = Utility . bulkUrlEncoded ( authdata, myString, lists ) ; MessageBox . Show ( response ) ; I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns regarding this. Thanks.

David_J · ‎05-27-2011

Hi Ned, Are you receiving the exact same error message, ie: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/content/86/7349686/html/CCSFG_x.x.x/setup/header.php on line 1" If so, the improper upload method is the only cause I am aware of. However, if you are receiving a slightly different error message, this could be due to not having the cURL extension enabled, or to having an older version of php. Is what I pasted above the error you are receiving?

David_J · ‎05-27-2011

A lockout should only occur for using more information. If in the event you hit either of our rate limits, this would throw you a specific error explaining that your API requests are currently being refused rather than locking your account. In addition, the lockout rates are far above 70 requests in 30 minutes, so this would not have locked you out. I can however submit the request to return an error message stating that the account is locked out due to too many invalid login attempts, vs the standard 'HTTP Status 401 - Unable to authenticate user xxxxxxxxx' I apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns regarding this. Thanks.

David_J · ‎05-27-2011

Hi Andrew, Building a 'developer' account is definitely something we are already looking at doing for situations exactly like this. Unfortunately I do not have an ETA of when this offering is going to be complete. In the event your trial account runs out we will certainly not remove the account right away. I do apologize for any inconvenience that this issue has caused.

David_J · ‎05-19-2011

That flow is fine, so long as the customer is the person taking the action and not you as the site owner. I did want to quickly touch base on the FAQ you are quoting. That is referring to using the Join My Mailing LIst form (JMML) to send an update profile email to a customer. The workaround it is suggesting is to send that emai to the customer, but they would still need to take an action to opt themselves back in. The API does not go through this update profile email step, which is why we need to make sure it is the contact taking the action. I hope this clears things up. Please let us know if you have any further questions. Thanks!

David_J · ‎05-19-2011

What Joseph is saying is exactly correct, and you want to make sure that you customers are the ones taking this action to opt themselves back in, or else that would be in violation of our terms and conditions. For the library that you are using, You would just need to set the opt in source if that contact was on the Do-Not-Mail list. For example, you could add something like: if ( $Contact -> status == "Do Not Mail" ) { $Contact -> optInSource = "ACTION_BY_CONTACT" ; } I hope this helps to clear up any points of confusion. Please let us know if you have any other questions.

David_J · ‎05-19-2011

I'm glad you were able to resolve this. I did want to quickly point out that if you are going to be supplying the list id's manually (hard-coding them), then you can remove the $ConstantContact->getLists() calls as you are no longer using those values. Please let us know if you have any other questions regarding our API.

David_J · ‎05-18-2011

The code that you are using worked perfectly fine for me to move a contact from 'Removed' over to an 'Active' contact on a list. It sounds like the contact is updating correctly, but you are looking at the contact object from when you initially pulled details. It is showing the two lists because you added: $Contact -> lists = array ( $lists [ 'lists' ] [ 0 ] -> id , $lists [ 'lists' ] [ 1 ] -> id ) ; So when you dump out $Contact, its showing you the lists you added with the status it had at the time, which was removed. Once you have updating the contact, try running: // Search for a contact by Email Address $search = $ConstantContact -> searchContactsByEmail ( 'example@example.com' ) ; // Get details for the Contact $UpdatedContact = $ConstantContact -> getContactDetails ( $search [ 0 ] ) ; // dump out the results print_r ( $UpdatedContact ) ; I hope this helps. Please let us know if this works for you.

David_J · ‎05-18-2011

Regarding the error you are seeing: Fatal error: Wrong parameters for Exception([string $exception [, long $code ]]) in /home/mnysite/public_html/constantcontact/Components.php on line 1434 This is because PHP 5.3 added an optional 3rd parameter to the Exception class, and since we're supplying one, this error is thrown in all versions of PHP prior to 5.3. I have since update the GitHub repository to remove this 3rd argument, so this should now function properly in all versions of PHP 5.1.3+. You can either redownload the library from https://github.com/ctctsupport/ctct_php_library. Or you can change Components.php line 1434 from: parent :: __construct ( $message , $code , $previous ) ; To: parent :: __construct ( $message , $code ) ; I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. Thanks!

David_J · ‎05-17-2011

The Add Contacts activity will either add a new contact, or update the contact if it already exists. You do not need to specify in that the contact already exists, as the bulk activity will determine the necessary course of action of the fly. I hope this clears things up.

David_J · ‎05-17-2011

Unfortunately, the exact flow you are looking for would not quite work in Constant Contact. 'Removed' is a system list that contacts cannot be directly added to by supplying the list id in the contacts <ContactList> element, and the same is true for 'Active' and 'Do Not Mail'. Being on the 'Removed' list is really an indication of the absence of any real 'lists', and therefore is giving you the correct message that 'removed' is not valid. We also do not have the ability to add a contact without specifying an exact list for them to be on, so specifying no list is not an option either. I think you're going to have a cleaner integration with waiting to add the contact to your account until you are ready for them to be part of an active list, but the other way to accomplish this would be to add the contact, and then update them removing all contact lists. You can more information on this in Removing a Contact. I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks.

David_J · ‎05-17-2011

We do have bulk API's that are already in our current offering that can help you accomplish this. First, we have a bulk add/remove contacts activity that can both add and update your contacts, depending on what is appropriate. This will help you update those contacts without running thousands of post/put requests. You can find more information on this at Creating an Add Contacts/Remove Contacts Acitivity. We also have a bulk activity that can help you export the contacts information into a .csv or .txt file, depending on what you specify. This would allow you to post an activity, which would take a certain amount of time to queue and run, and once complete would offer the url of a file containing your requested info. You can find more about this at Creating an Export Contacts Activity. I hope this answers your question. Please let us know if this is unclear or you you have any other questions. Thanks.

David_J · ‎05-16-2011

This is typically related to the XML structure that you are using to make your request. You can read more about all of our error codes here. If you would like to post the XML that you are using, we'd be glad to take a look and see if we can spot where the error is coming from.

David_J · ‎05-16-2011

There does not appear to be anything wrong with the string itself. When I perform a get on this (inserting my account information), I am able to pull the listing of contacts without receiving a 401 error. Would you be able to post the code that you are using so that we can take a look at that? If you'd rather email that in, you can feel free to send it to our webservices team and we can look at it there. Thanks!

David_J · ‎05-16-2011

It looks like you are attempting to use an application/x-www-form-urlencoded Request, but are using the content-type 'multipart/form-data'. If you make the following changes, your code seemed to work properly for me: 1. Change: request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data"; to: request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; 2. Change: data.Append("&file=" & HttpUtility.UrlEncode(CSVFile)) to: data.Append("&data=" & HttpUtility.UrlEncode(CSVFile)) If you are still receiving 400 errors after that, then please send us a few lines of example data from your CSV so that we can see exactly what information you are using.

David_J · ‎05-09-2011

There is a number of different ways to make sure a checkbox was checked in order to submit the form, but one of the more common ways would be using javascript. While I'm not sure if building this type of validationg into the CCSFG by default is something we're ready to do, this is a standalone example of validating to make sure that one checkbox is submitted before actually doing so. You could make a few modifications to force your form to submit to this JS function, which you could have check and specific box in your HTML form. < script language = "javascript" type = "text/javascript" > function checkme ( ) { if ( ! document. form . agree . checked ) { missinginfo = " You must agree to the terms" ; alert ( missinginfo ) ; return false ; } else { return true ; } } </ script > < form name = "form" method = "post" action = "#" onSubmit = "return checkme();" > < table cellpadding = "0" cellspacing = "0" border = "0" > < tr >< td > Email : </ td > < td > < input type = "text" size = "20" name = "email" ></ td > </ tr >< tr > < td colspan = "2" align = "center" >< input type = "checkbox" name = "agree" value = "agree_terms" > I agree to the terms </ td > </ tr >< tr > < td colspan = "2" align = "center" >< input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "Submit" ></ td > </ tr > </ table > </ form > I hope this helps point you in the right direction, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns regarding this and I'll be happy to help. Thanks!

David_J · ‎05-03-2011

Unfortunately ConstantContact does not have this functionality available with our API's at this time. You do have the ability to use our API to Query Contacts by Last Update Date that would allow you to grab a group of contacts based off their last updated date. With that being said, our web services API's do not have the ability to 'push' data to you, they can only be pulled by you initiating an http request. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns regarding this.

David_J · ‎05-02-2011

This issue should be fixed as of 4/29/2011. If you do have any examples of this still occuring, please let us know. Thanks!

David_J · ‎04-29-2011

I was able to issue an http delete against a contact id using .NET 2.0 Framework. This code was initially written in C#.NET which I then ran through the .net code converter. Dim apiKey As [ String ] = "APIKEY" Dim username As [ String ] = "USERNAME" Dim password As [ String ] = "PASSWORD" Dim contactId As [ String ] = "https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" & username & "/contacts/1" Dim credentials As New NetworkCredential ( apiKey & "%" & username, password ) Dim ctctRequest As WebRequest = WebRequest. Create ( contactId ) ctctRequest. Method = "DELETE" ctctRequest. Credentials = credentials Dim ctctResponse As HttpWebResponse = TryCast ( ctctRequest. GetResponse ( ) , HttpWebResponse ) Dim responseStream As New StreamReader ( ctctResponse. GetResponseStream ( ) ) Dim responseText As String = responseStream. ReadToEnd ( ) Dim responseCode As Integer = CInt ( ctctResponse. StatusCode ) ctctResponse. Close ( ) responseStream. Close ( ) MessageBox. Show ( responseCode & responseText ) Please note that you need to insert your username, password, and apiKey in order for this to work. Also, this is currently set to delete contact "1" and you would want to adjust this to delete the appropriate contact. I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns, or if this does not work for you. Thanks!

David_J · ‎04-29-2011

In order to delete that contact, you would need to issue an http delete to that contacts id, ie: https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{username}/contacts/{contact-id} There is no XML request that would need to be sent as the request body for this type of request. If I am misunderstanding your question please let me know and I will do my best to clarify. Thanks.

David_J · ‎04-28-2011

I am not currently aware of any customers that are using this CMS that have integrated with Constant Contact, but judging by the information I've gathered from their website this would certainly be possible. It seems like you would be looking to build a TYPO3 extension that would utilize our API to perform whatever actions you're looking to do. While we do not have any specific integration with TYPO3, this does appear to be a PHP based CMS, so you may find some of the code on our Code Samples page to be helpful in accomplishing your goals. If you have any questions regarding our API's functionality or are having difficulties implementing it, please let us know and we will be happy to help. Thanks!

David_J · ‎04-26-2011

I believe that the code below will do this for you. This is utilizing the C# Library which you can download from our Code Samples page. AuthenticationData authdata = new AuthenticationData ( ) ; authdata . Username = "USERNAME" ; authdata . Password = "PASSWORD" ; authdata . ApiKey = "APIKEY" ; String nextLink ; List < Contact > contacts = ( List < Contact > ) Utility . getListMembers ( "/ws/customers/" + authdata . Username + "/lists/do-not-mail" , authdata, out nextLink ) ; while ( nextLink != "" ) { List < Contact > nextPageContacts = ( List < Contact > ) Utility . getListMembers ( "https://api.constantcontact.com" + nextLink, authdata, out nextLink ) ; contacts . AddRange ( nextPageContacts ) ; }

David_J · ‎04-26-2011

I can probably provide a bulk export contacts example in a pretty short amount of time. What language are you using?

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