mChimpX

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What is mChimpX?¶

A FormIt hook provided to subscribe an email address to your Mailchimp list. Fully configurable.

This extra stable works with Maichimp API 2.0 support (only 1.x versions support has been stopped), 3.0 version will be implemented soon.

mChimpX is created by Bert Oost.

Requirements¶

mChimpX requires MODX® Revolution 2.4 or later.

History¶

Version	Release date	Author	Changes
1.0.0-rc1	Dec 28, 2011	Bert Oost (OostDesign)	Initial release.
2.0.0-alpha	Apr 10, 2019	Oleg Pryadko	Mailchimp API 2.0 support
2.1.0	May 05, 2019	Anton Tarasov	Further maintenance & support

Download & Installation¶

Install the package through the MODX® package manager.

Example snippet call¶

[[!FormIt?
  &hooks=`mChimpXSubscribe`
  &mcApiKey=`xxxxxx5229a6a84acd58xxxxxx210ax-us11`
  &mcListId=`yyyyyyyyyyy`
  &mcEmailField=`EMAIL`
  &mcMergeTags=`FNAME:FNAME,LNAME:LNAME,BIRTHDATE:BIRTHDATE,CODE:CODE,SOURCE:SOURCE`
  &mcDoubleOptin=`1`
  &mcDebug=`true`
  &mcUpdateExisting=`0`
  &mcFailOnAlreadySubscribed=`1`
  &mcFailOnNotSubscribed=`1`
  &mcFailOnMissingRequired=`1`
]]

Possible options which can be added to the FormIt tag¶

Parameter	Description
mcApiKey	[optional] The Mailchimp API Key (can be also specified via system setting `mcApiKey`)
mcListId	[optional] The Mailchimp list id to subscribe to (can be also specified via system setting `mcListId`)
mcEmailField	The name of the email field in the form. Default: `email`.
mcMergeTags	The merge tags of Mailchimp combined with the form fields. Default: `FNAME:firstname,LNAME:lastname,FULLNAME:firstname:lastname`.

Parameter	Description
mcEmailType	Email type preference for the email (html, text, or mobile).Default: `html`.
mcDoubleOptin	To control whether a double opt-in confirmation message is sent. Default: `1`
mcUpdateExisting	To control whether a existing subscribers should be updated instead of throwing and error. Default: `0`.
mcReplaceInterests	To determine whether we replace the interest groups with the groups provided, or we add the provided groups to the member's interest groups. Default: `1`.
mcSendWelcome	if your doubleoptin is false and this is true, we will send your lists Welcome Email if this subscribe succeeds - this will _not fire if we end up updating an existing subscriber. If double_optin is true, this has no effect. Default: `0`.

Error parameters¶

Parameter	Description
mcDebug	Debug messages in MODX error log, when needed.Default: `0`.
mcFailOnApiKey	Return API key errors to the front-end form. Default: `0`
mcFailOnListNotExists	Return 'list not exists' error to the front-end form. Default: `0`.
mcFailOnAlreadySubscribed	Return 'already subscribed' error to the front-end form. Default: `0`.
mcFailOnNotSubscribed	Return 'not subscribed' error to the front-end form. Default: `0`.
mcFailOnMissingRequired	Return 'missing required' error to the front-end form.. Default: `0`.

Official Documentation¶

https://docs.modx.com/current/en/extras/mchimpx