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The API-PHP library presents a simple and easy to use interface to the Get a Newsletter's REST API.

Requirements

PHP 5.5.* or greater
Httpful 0.2.*

Installation

If your project is supporting Composer you may use the following in your composer.json file:

"require": {
    "getanewsletter/api-php": "0.1.1"
}

Usage

Start by creating an instance of the \Gan\Api object:

<?php

$token = '...';
$gan = new \Gan\Api($token);

Here $token variable must contain a valid API token string.

The contact object

The instances of the \Gan\Contact class represent the contact entities in the API. They have the following fields:

Required fields

email - contact's email. It's also a lookup field - required when updating or deleting the contact.

Optional fields

attributes - list of the contact's attributes.
first_name
last_name
lists - list of the newsletters for which this contact is subscribed to.

Read-only fields

url - the contact's resource URL.
active - true if the contact is active and can receive mails, false otherwise.
updated - the date of the last change.
created - the date of creation.

Retreiving a contact

You have to create an instance of the \Gan\ContactManager\ class and then use it's get() method to retrieve the contact you need.

<?php

$contactManager = new \Gan\ContactManager($gan);
$contact = $contactManager->get('john.doe@example.com');

The manager methods will throw an \Gan\ApiException in case of HTTP error from the API, so it's a good idea to catch it.

<?php

try {
    $contact = $contactManager->get('john.doe@example.com');
} catch (\Gan\ApiException $e) {
    if ($e->response->code === 404) {
        echo 'Contact not found!';
    } else {
        echo 'API error: ' . $e;
    }
}

Creating a contact

<?php

$contact = new \Gan\Contact();
$contact->email = 'jane.doe@example.com';
$contact->first_name = 'Jane';

$contactManager->save($contact);

This will create a new contact and save it. Again, it'll be a good idea to catch exceptions when calling the save() method. The API will respond with an error if the contact already exists. One way to avoid it is to force the creation of the contact, overwriting the existing one:

<?php

$contactManager->overwrite($contact);

Both save() and overwrite() will return the same contact object with it's read-only fields updated (e.g. created, updated).

<?php

$contact = $contactManager->save($contact);
echo $contact->created;

Updating an existing contact

<?php

// Get the contact.
$contact = $contactManager->get('john.doe@example.com');
// Change some fields.
$contact->first_name = 'John';
// Save it.
$contactManager->save($contact);

You can avoid making two calls to the API by forcing a partial update.

<?php

$contact = new \Gan\Contact();
$contact->setPersisted();
$contact->email = 'john.doe@example.com';
$contact->first_name = 'John';
$contactManager->save($contact);

Calling setPersisted() on the contact object marks it like it's already existing and coming from the API. The calls to the save() method when a contact is maked as existing will do only a partial update, i.e. update only the supplied fields and skipping all the null fields. Do not forget that email is a lookup field and required when updating or deleting the contact.

Deleting a contact

<?php

$contactManager->delete($contact);

The newsletter object

The instances of the \Gan\Newsletter class represent the lists in the API. They have the following structure:

Required fields

email - sender's email.
name - name of the list.
sender - sender's name.

Optional fields

description

Lookup field

hash - the list's unique hash.

Read-only fields

responders_count
subcribers
created
url
subscribers_count
active_subscribers_count
responders

Retreiving, creating, updating and deleting a list

The CRUD operations on lists are no different from the operations on contacts:

<?php

$listManager = new \Gan\NewsletterManager($gan);

// Retrieve a list.
$list = $listManager->get('hash');

// Update the list.
$list->name = 'my list';
$list = $listManager->save($list);
echo $list->updated;

// Create new list.
$new_list = new \Gan\Newsletter();
$new_list->email = 'john.doe@example.com'; // requred fields
$new_list->name = 'my new list';
$new_list->sender = 'John Doe';
$listManager->save($new_list);

// Partial update.
$list = new \Gan\Newsletter();
$list->hash = 'hash'; // lookup field
$list->name = 'updated list';
$listManager->save($list);

// Delete the list.
$listManager->delete($list);

Subscribing a contact to a list

<?php

$contact->subscribeTo($list);
$contactManager->save($contact);

You can also create a new contact automatically subscribed.

<?php

$contact = new \Gan\Contact();
$contact->email = 'john.doe@example.com';
$contact->subscribeTo($list);
$contactManager->save($contact);

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