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MailChimp and CodeIgniter - El Forum - 06-08-2009
[eluser]Tim Reynolds[/eluser]
Hi,
I am currently working on a personal project in which i would like to include the ability to send mail outs. I know my current server has limits on outbound mail in this way but was interested in implementing Chimpmail mainly due to it's other benefits like tracking, easy HTML templates etc
Anyway has anyone done any integration of MailChimp with CI?
Any feedback from doing so or experience's with MailChimp?
Thanks
http://www.mailchimp.com/
MailChimp and CodeIgniter - El Forum - 06-08-2009
[eluser]slowgary[/eluser]
What exactly do you want to integrate? I looked around the mailchimp site but I don't see any sort of API or documentation for integration. I'd say the best you're going to be able to do is put a form on your site that submits to mailchimp, or you could store submissions in your own database and export csv files to import on mailchimp. You may even be able to automate a process which would route a form submitted on your site and send it as a subscribe email to mailchimp.
Most mass mail management sites allow import of lists, and there's probably an email address that you can send an email to which would automatically subscribe you. Since they're usually required to send a confirmation back to the email address before subscribing (double opt in, permanent opt out I think is the requirement of the CAN-SPAM act), I see no harm in taking a form submission from your site and sending an email to mailchimp "from" the user to initiate subscription. Then they get a confirmation email and it allows them to say yay or nay.
Is that sort of what you were trying to do?
MailChimp and CodeIgniter - El Forum - 06-09-2009
[eluser]Tim Reynolds[/eluser]
Am not 100% sure what i am looking for tbh.
the mailchimp api can be found here, http://www.mailchimp.com/api/ was mainly looking for feedback from anyone that had used it. Looks very simple anyway.
Thanks
MailChimp and CodeIgniter - El Forum - 06-09-2009
[eluser]slowgary[/eluser]
Aha! I looked all over for that.
I haven't used it or mailchimp but I did some work for a nonprofit that used constantcontact.com (although they didn't really use it) and I suggested mailchimp as an alternative. The pricing is a little better and it's way cooler. You can see they've really taken the mass mail management and stepped it up. I noticed a feature in their 'labs' department that will analyze your site for style info like a logo or header/footer and colors, and it'll create an email template for you with your site's content as placeholder text. If you don't like the design, you can just try again - it reshuffles and gives you a new one. Really innovative.
MailChimp and CodeIgniter - El Forum - 06-09-2009
[eluser]Tim Reynolds[/eluser]
I think I am going to trial MailChip with a free account and see how it goes. This will also be for a non profit project i am working on over the next 12 months basically starting from scratch. marketing is something that in the past has not been done as professionally as would be liked and I think mailchimp can be one of the solutions too this problem.
MailChimp and CodeIgniter - El Forum - 06-09-2009
[eluser]darkhouse[/eluser]
I am using mailchimp on a (large) client's site now, and it's amazing. Very easy to integrate. I already had a mailing list system in place (custom that we wrote) but it was a snap to just use the API, subscribe users to the list and output error/success messages.
MailChimp and CodeIgniter - El Forum - 06-09-2009
[eluser]ggoforth[/eluser]
On a completely unrelated note, is your screen name an homage to the guitarist? If so, are you diggin Big Whiskey?
EDIT: I answered my own question when I found your website
. Feel free to disregard.Greg