Mailchimp API

Retrieve all templates defined for your user account

Section:

Campaign Related

Parameters:

apikey a valid API Key for your user account. Get by calling login()

Returns:

array   -  An array of structs, one for each template (see Returned Fields for details)

Returned Fields:

integer

id

Id of the template

string

name

Name of the template

string

layout

Layout of the template - "basic", "left_column", "right_column", or "postcard"

array

sections

associative array of editable sections in the template that can accept custom HTML when sending a campaign

Examples (2)

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[1] mcapi_campaignTemplates.php

<?php
/**
This Example shows how to retrieve a list of your Campaign Templates
via the MCAPI class.
**/
require_once 'inc/MCAPI.class.php';
require_once 'inc/config.inc.php'; //contains apikey
 
$api = new MCAPI($apikey);
 
$retval = $api->campaignTemplates();
 
if ($api->errorCode){
	echo "Unable to Load Templates!";
	echo "\n\tCode=".$api->errorCode;
	echo "\n\tMsg=".$api->errorMessage."\n";
} else {
	echo "Your templates:\n";
	foreach($retval as $tmpl){
	    echo $tmpl['id']." - ".$tmpl['name']." - ".$tmpl['layout']."\n";
	}
}
 

[2] xml-rpc_campaignTemplates.php

<?php
/**
This Example shows how to Retrieve all of your Campaign Templates using the XML-RPC service
and do some basic error checking.
Note that we are using the PEAR XML-RPC client and recommend others do as well.
**/
require_once 'XML/RPC2/Client.php';
require_once 'inc/config.inc.php';
try {
    $client = XML_RPC2_Client::create($apiUrl);
 
    $result = $client->campaignTemplates($apikey);
	echo "SUCCESS! \n";
	echo "Your templates:\n";
	foreach($result as $tmpl){
	    echo $tmpl['id']." - ".$tmpl['name']." - ".$tmpl['layout']."\n";
	}
} catch (XML_RPC2_FaultException $e){
	echo "ERROR!!!!\n";
	echo $e->getFaultCode()." : ".$e->getFaultString()."\n";
}
echo "\n";