How to use Constant Contact API?

Question

Hi friends,

I want to use API of the constant contact and want to insert user email using PHP while user register to the site.

please reply if any help.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

// fill in your Constant Contact login and API key
$ccuser = 'USERNAME_HERE';
$ccpass = 'PASS_HERE';
$cckey  = 'APIKEY_HERE';

// fill in these values 
$firstName  = "";
$lastName   = "";
$emailAddr  = "";
$zip        = "";

// represents the contact list identification number(s)
$contactListId = INTEGER_OR_ARRAY_OF_INTEGERS_HERE;
$contactListId = (!is_array($contactListId)) ? array($contactListId) : $contactListId;

$post = new SimpleXMLElement('<entry></entry>');
$post->addAttribute('xmlns', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom');

$title = $post->addChild('title', "");
$title->addAttribute('type', 'text');

$post->addChild('updated', date('c'));
$post->addChild('author', "");
$post->addChild('id', 'data:,none');

$summary = $post->addChild('summary', 'Contact');
$summary->addAttribute('type', 'text');

$content = $post->addChild('content');
$content->addAttribute('type', 'application/vnd.ctct+xml');

$contact = $content->addChild('Contact');
$contact->addAttribute('xmlns', 'http://ws.constantcontact.com/ns/1.0/');

$contact->addChild('EmailAddress', $emailAddr);
$contact->addChild('FirstName', $firstName);
$contact->addChild('LastName', $lastName);
$contact->addChild('PostalCode', $zip);
$contact->addChild('OptInSource', 'ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER');

$contactlists = $contact->addChild('ContactLists');

// loop through each of the defined contact lists
foreach($contactListId AS $listId) {
    $contactlist = $contactlists->addChild('ContactList');
    $contactlist->addAttribute('id', 'http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/' . $ccuser . '/lists/' . $listId);
}

$posturl = "https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{$ccuser}/contacts";
$authstr = $cckey . '%' . $ccuser . ':' . $ccpass;

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $posturl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $authstr);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post->asXML());
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type:application/atom+xml"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); // Do not return headers
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 0); // If you set this to 0, it will take you to a page with the http response

$response = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

// returns true on success, false on error
return (!is_numeric($response));

Answer 2

Here is a quick php function to add a user to your Constant Contact list. I've used this on several client's websites:

http://ashbii.com/blog/2009/oct/13/simple-php-function-add-email-constant-contact/