MailChimp Newsletter Sidebox

[MaartenJ]

Allright, coded the update function after my diner. When a customer updates his or her information on the "my account" page, this change will be synced with your Mail Chimp list. Here's how I dit it:

In mailchimp_functions.php from this great module I added my own function at the end of the file. Note that I added a field for Firstname and Lastname. You can do that, but if you don't want to just delete everything with firstname and lastname in it:

//Mailchimp update function: update customers data to the mailchimp list.
 function mailchimp_update($email_address_old, $email_address, $firstname, $lastname, $email_format) {
    include_once(DIR_WS_CLASSES . "MCAPI.class.php");
    $api = new MCAPI(BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_API_KEY);
    $merge_vars = array('FNAME'=>$firstname, 'LNAME'=>$lastname, 'EMAIL'=>$email_address);
    if ($email_format == 'TEXT') {
       $format = 'text'; 
    } else {
       $format = 'html'; 
    }

    $list_id = BOX_MAILCHIMP_NEWSLETTER_ID; 
    $retval = $api->listUpdateMember($list_id, $email_address_old, $merge_vars, $format);
    if ($api->errorCode){
        $errorMessage = "Unable to update member info with listUpdateMember()!\n" . 
           "\tCode=".$api->errorCode."\n" .
           "\tMsg=".$api->errorMessage."\n";
          $file = DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE . '/' . 'MailChimp.log';
          if ($fp = @fopen($file, 'a')) {
            fwrite($fp, $errorMessage);
            fclose($fp);
          }
    }
 } 

In htdocs/includes/templates/YOURTEMPLATE/templates/tpl_account_edit_default.php you must make an invisible field to be able to pass the old email address (email_address_old) to the mailchimp_update() function. I've placed this line below the entry for the e-mail address, but you can paste in anywhere as long as it is within the form:

<?php echo zen_draw_hidden_field('email_address_old', $account->fields['customers_email_address'], 'id="email-address-old"') ?>

At last you must make a call to the function. When the form is submitted it will use /includes/modules/pages/account_edit/header_php.php to make all the magic happen. Paste the following around line 154 above the line:
$zco_notifier->notify('NOTIFY_HEADER_ACCOUNT_EDIT_UPDATES_COMPLETE');

mailchimp_update($email_address_old, $email_address, $firstname, $lastname, $email_format); 

That's all! Now your mailchimp list will be updated as soon as your customer edits his or her information! Next thing to do is to make a sync for the "Subscribe or unsubscribe from newsletters." page.