Mailchimp API

DEPRECATED: Log into the MailChimp API and return an API Key. There is no reason to call this in a real app, just hard code your API Key from this or http://admin.mailchimp.com/account/api/. By default the oldest one is returned. If you've never logged into the API before, this will create your first API Key.

Deprecated:

User a wrapper that supports our datacenters, or hard code your API Key and endpoint

Section:

Security Related

Parameters:

username

Your MailChimp user name

password

Your MailChimp password

Returns:

string   -  an API Key for your user account that will be passed into the rest of the API calls

Examples (2)

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[1] xml-rpc_login.php

<?php
/**
This Example shows how to Login 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);
    $apikey = $client->login($username,$password);
 
	echo "SUCCESS!\n";
	echo "Your API Key is :". $apikey."\n";
} catch (XML_RPC2_FaultException $e){
	echo "ERROR!!!!\n";
	echo $e->getFaultCode()." : ".$e->getFaultString()."\n";
}
?>
 

[2] mcapi_login.php

<?php
/**
This Example shows how to use the MCAPI.php class without actually ever needing
the account Username & Password.
**/
require_once 'inc/MCAPI.class.php';
require_once 'inc/config.inc'; //contains username & password
 
$api = new MCAPI($username, $password);
 
if ($api->errorCode){
    echo "Unable to login!\n";
	echo "code:".$api->errorCode."\n";
	echo "msg :".$api->errorMessage."\n";
	die();
} else {
    echo "Success. Your API Key is:\n";
    echo "\t".$api->api_key."\n";
}