I replaced the mandrill/mandrill package with mailchimp/transactional. Also I have a tamplate named MYTEMPLATE-001-GR with mergevar name.
And I try to send an email using that template:
<?php
require_once '/path/to/MailchimpTransactional/vendor/autoload.php';
$mailchimp = new MailchimpTransactionalApiClient();
$mailchimp->setApiKey('YOUR_API_KEY');
$message = [
'subject' => 'Lorem Ipsum',
'from_email' => 'user@example.com',
'from_name' => 'Example User',
'to' => 'user@example.com'
'global_merge_vars' => ['name'=>'Chuck Norris'],
'track_opens' => true,
'track_clicks' => true
];
$response = $mailchimp->messages->sendTemplate([
"template_name" => "MYTEMPLATE-001-GR",
"template_content" => [[]],
"message" => $message,
]);
print_r($response);
But the response is the following:
"""
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Errorrn
server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)rn
date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:51:38 GMTrn
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8rn
transfer-encoding: chunkedrn
access-control-allow-origin: *rn
access-control-allow-methods: POST, GET, OPTIONSrn
access-control-allow-headers: Content-Typern
access-control-allow-credentials: falsern
rn
{"status":"error","code":-1,"name":"ValidationError","message":"You must specify a template_content value"}
"""
Meaning I should provide some value in template_content but my template has NO input fields just merge vars therefore I do not know what value needs to be provided in this case.
The previous version it just used NULL as template content value and worked just fine. Do you know how I can change the call into the later version?
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Answer
In this case the template_content based upon this tweet for the sendTemplate Mandrill APi call should contain the following values:
'template_content'=>[["name"=>'','content'=>'']],
Therefore your code should be the following:
require_once '/path/to/MailchimpTransactional/vendor/autoload.php';
$mailchimp = new MailchimpTransactionalApiClient();
$mailchimp->setApiKey('YOUR_API_KEY');
$message = [
'subject' => 'Lorem Ipsum',
'from_email' => 'user@example.com',
'from_name' => 'Example User',
'to' => 'user@example.com'
'global_merge_vars' => ['name'=>'Chuck Norris'],
'track_opens' => true,
'track_clicks' => true
];
$response = $mailchimp->messages->sendTemplate([
"template_name" => "MYTEMPLATE-001-GR",
"template_content"=>[["name"=>'','content'=>'']],
"message" => $message,
]);
print_r($response);