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  1. Mike Street says:

    Great article – I was using the Mailchimp API to retrieve the latest mailouts, to list them on the website.

    Like you I was getting them once a day, but rather rely on a user request to go and get it (and thus slowing down that one users page load, which could be Google and could rank me lower) I relied on a cron job to go and do the dirty work in the middle of the night.

    Upon getting the data, I would store it in an array and json_encode/decode – this meant I only needed one file (something I would suggest you do – for scalability)

    // Include Mailchimp PHP Lib
    
    $config = array (
        'mailchimp' => array (
            'api_key' => '123'
        )
    );
    
    $file = 'data.json';
    
    $mc = new Mailchimp($config['mailchimp']['api_key']);
    $campaigns = $mc->campaigns->getList(array('status'=>'sent')); // Only get sent campaigns
    
    foreach($campaigns['data'] as $i => $c) {
            $date = new DateTime($c['send_time']);
            $data['campaigns'][] = array(
                    'subject' => $c['subject'],
                    'archive_url' => $c['archive_url'],
                    'date_sent' => $date->format('jS F Y')
            );
    }
    
    $data = json_encode($data);
    file_put_contents($file, $data);
    

    And then in my website code I can simply:

    <?php $data = json_decode(file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . '/data/data.json'));?>
    <ul class="list">
    <?php foreach($data->campaigns as $c) : ?>
        <li>
            <a href="<?=$c->archive_url?>"><h3><?=$c->subject?> <time><?=$c->date_sent?></time></h3></a>
        </li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
    
    • Great suggestions, Mark. That’s a good tip regarding the fact that the one user visiting the page could technically be Google, although I would guess that would be pretty rare.

      Thanks!

  2. Bryan says:

    This is awesome! I’ve been wanting to do something similar to this.

    It would be awesome if you had a live demo of what we’re actually accomplishing. Just a suggestion @Louis

    Thanks for sharing

  3. partha says:

    Good to read. Thanks…

  4. B. M. says:

    Thank you very much for this detailed tutorial which was really helpful for me!

    I modified this slightly: I write the results into the database (new table with 3 columns: mailinglisteID, listenname, anzahl (“anzahl” means “number/count”). The script is run via cronjob and from my CMS I can easily access the database and get the values (which, moreover, are cached).

    Perhaps somebody could need the code, therefore I put it below together with some comments.

    
    require_once('DrewmMailChimpApiWrapper.php'); // the wrapper from drewm
    // open connection to database
    // (this I actually put into an external class, because it is used by other scripts)
    $host = 'localhost';
    $username = 'usernameOfDB';
    $passwort = '1234'; // whatelse :-)
    $db_name = 'nameOfDB';
    $link = mysql_connect($host, $username, $passwort) or die('connection-parameters not correct!');
    mysql_select_db($db_name) or die('no connection to selected db possible!');
    
    $con = new Dbconnect();
    $con->db_verbindung_oeffnen('nameOfDB');
    
    // open connection to mailchimp-api
    $MailChimp = new \Drewm\MailChimp('my-mailchimp-api-key'); // Drewm = namespace which is used in the DrewM-script
    
    $mc = $MailChimp->call('lists/list');
    foreach($mc[data] as $listen)
    {
    //	echo "listeid: " . $listen[id];
    //	echo "liste name: " . $listen[name];
    //	echo "anzahl: " . $listen[stats][member_count];
    	$listid = $listen[id];
    	$listname = $listen[name];
    	$listanzahl =  $listen[stats][member_count];
    
    // before first run you have to insert the list-data into the new table; you never need this anymore, therefor you should delete it or comment it out
    // $sql = "INSERT INTO new_table_that_contains_subscriber_count (mailinglisteID, listenname, anzahl) VALUES ('".$listid."','".$listname."',".$listanzahl.");";
    
    $sql = "UPDATE new_table_that_contains_subscriber_count SET anzahl = ".$listanzahl.", listenname = '".$listname."' WHERE mailinglisteID = '".$listid."';";
    
    $eep = mysql_query($sql);
    }
    
  5. Mick Kennys says:

    Nicely explained, nicely wirtten – thank you! As I am a newbie in such things, this was a great tutorial for me!

  6. Tech Leaks says:

    Thanks for great tips …… But we have always had a bad experience with MailChimp…. We imported out list of 4000 email subscribers but each time, MailChimp put our account on hold ….

  7. Lisa says:

    Great! This is more helpful.

  8. Gamer says:

    Thanks for the great tut, it works.

  9. Trelat says:

    Works perfectly, thanks a lot.

  10. Rashaqah says:

    This is very helpful, their api is one of most complicated api’s out there but you made it seem easy, thanks a lot

  11. Daniel says:

    Great post, this really helped.

  12. Joshua says:

    Thanks for the great post, is it possible to decode the json using jquery and pass it to another php file for processing ?

    • I’m sure it is. I suppose you could add the data into a hidden HTML element (or cookie, or local storage?) or something like that, then grab it with jQuery and send it as a parameter via jQuery’s Ajax functions to the PHP file in question.

      I’m just summarizing the theoretical method here, but you’d have to try it to see.

  13. Joshua Read says:

    This was a huge help. The API has changed as well as Drew’s Code. Here is what just worked for me:
    (Detailed Information for those new to this: I pasted this at the bottom of Drew’s MailChimp.php and then uploaded that file to my server. I then called example.com/MailChimp.php )

    $MailChimp = new \SPPRAC\MailChimp('Paste your API code here);
    $result = $MailChimp->call('lists/list', array(
                    'id'                => 'Paste Your Lists ID here'
                ));
    $curr_sub_count = $result[data][0][stats][member_count];
    ?>
    <p class="sub">Join <?php echo number_format($curr_sub_count); ?> subscribers!</p>
    
  14. Designsolv says:

    This was one of the sophisticated API’s and i was able to figure things out with the assistance of your tutorial. Also thanks to Mike for the further elaboration.

  15. Jacklyn says:

    Great tutorial, you think you’d find something like this in the Mailchimp docs but noooo, thanks a lot man it helped a lot

  16. 21coders says:

    I also used to do it manually but this tutorial really helped me.Thanks!

  17. Ray L says:

    Instead of a cron job, could you use MySQL’s event scheduler and save the output in a database table?
    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/events-overview.html

  18. juan says:

    Thank you, great code. It worked just like charm.

  19. Cedric says:

    Hello, no idea if someone will read my comment as the post is pretty old.
    I store in an extra Merge Field called CITY in Mailchimp the city where the people live.
    I’m looking for a way to display for a given city the numbers of members from this city.
    Like on the page mysite/mexico I’d want to display the numbers of subscribers in Mexico from my list.

    I have no idea how to do this…

    Any idea ?
    Thanks

  20. Oganro says:

    Works perfectly, thanks a lot. but my account suspended after I imported list of 2500 email subscribers & MailChimp put our account on hold? any suggestions?

  21. vshingala says:

    Hello Friends i am new to php and i want to integrate mailchimp. First i setup that all which is mentioned in gituhub. but when at starting point i could not get any response.

  22. Albert says:

    Is i possible to show member count of a group? I tried somethings and it didn’t work.

  23. yasas says:

    Thank you for another informative blog.Thank you, great code. It worked just like charm.

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