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Cakephp Datasource for Mailchimp

With this datasource you can easily add users to your Mailchimp newsletter. It works in both CakePHP 1.2+ and CakePHP 2.0+, but be sure to check out the right branch. The master branch is the active branch which supports CakePHP 2.0 onwards. For older CakePHP versions, please check out the cake-1.3 branch (despite the name it should work with CakePHP 1.2 too).

Please check the original blogpost on our devblog for more background information.

Setup

CakePHP 1.2+

Add the model and datasource in their appropriate folders.

• APP_DIR/models/
• APP_DIR/models/datasources/

Add the $mailchimp datasource to APP_DIR/config/database.php

var $mailchimp = array(
    'datasource' => 'mailchimp_subscriber',
    'apiKey' => 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'defaultListId' => 'YOUR_LIST_ID',
    'baseUrl' => 'http://us1.api.mailchimp.com/1.2/' // or another one, depending on the API version you use
);

CakePHP 2.0+

Add the model and datasource in their appropriate folders.

• APP_DIR/Model/
• APP_DIR/Model/Datasource/

Add the $mailchimp datasource to APP_DIR/config/database.php

public $mailchimp = array(
    'datasource' => 'MailchimpSubscriberSource',
    'apikey' => 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'listId' => 'YOUR_LIST_ID',
    'baseUrl' => 'http://us1.api.mailchimp.com/1.2/' // or another one, depending on the API version you use
);

Usage

When you've set the datasource up correctly, you will now be able to do stuff like $this->MailchimpSubscriber->save($this->data), or call other regular Model methods (like Model::find) from any controller that uses the MailchimpSubscriber model.