A minimal service provider to set up and use the Mailchimp APi v2 PHP library in Laravel v5.*
For Laravel v4 check https://packagist.org/packages/hugofirth/mailchimp
This package contains a service provider, which binds an instance of an initialized Mailchimp client to the IoC-container.
You recieve the Mailchimp client through depencency injection already set up with your own API key.
Usage example
class NewsletterManager
{
protected $mailchimp;
protected $listId = '1234567890'; // Id of newsletter list
/**
* Pull the Mailchimp-instance from the IoC-container.
*/
public function __construct(\Mailchimp $mailchimp)
{
$this->mailchimp = $mailchimp;
}
/**
* Access the mailchimp lists API
* for more info check "https://apidocs.mailchimp.com/api/2.0/lists/subscribe.php"
*/
public function addEmailToList($email)
{
try {
$this->mailchimp
->lists
->subscribe(
$this->listId,
['email' => $email]
);
} catch (\Mailchimp_List_AlreadySubscribed $e) {
// do something
} catch (\Mailchimp_Error $e) {
// do something
}
}
}
Or you can manually instantiate the Mailchimp client by using:
$mailchimp = app('Mailchimp');
Step 1: Adding the dependency to composer.json
Add this to your composer.json in your Laravel folder. Note: Adding this dependency will automatically setup "mailchimp/mailchimp": "~2.0" too.
"require": {
"skovmand/mailchimp-laravel": "1.*",
}
Step 2: Register the service provider
Register the service provider in config/app.php
by inserting into the providers
array
'providers' => [
Skovmand\Mailchimp\MailchimpServiceProvider::class,
]
Step 3: From the command-line run
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Skovmand\Mailchimp\MailchimpServiceProvider"
This will publish config/mailchimp.php
to your config folder.
Step 4: Edit your .env file
for more info check "http://kb.mailchimp.com/accounts/management/about-api-keys#Find-or-Generate-Your-API-Key"
MAILCHIMP_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
Good to go!