Sending content to Templates

[wayne berry]

Hi There,

I'm trying to send html content to mailchimp templates via the
campaignCreate() method.
code looks like this

$retval = $api->campaignCreate($type, $opts, $content);

all works great, but the content doesn't go through, i'm using one of
the standard vanilla mailchimp templates

To quote the documentation....
Supported template sections include: "html_HEADER", "html_MAIN",
"html_SIDECOLUMN", and "html_FOOTER"

but when I call the campaignTemplateContent() methoed I get totally
different sections
the sections my template has look like this

std_preheader_content, postcard_heading00, std_content00 etc

but when i try pass content into these sections it doesn't work...
tried prefixing the keys with html_ but still no luck

am i missing out on something?

[wayne berry]

okay, just solved this if anyone else is interested...

the campaignTemplateContent() method gives the field names, but
"incorrectly"

i'd get a field from the above method called "postcard_heading00"

but when i check the mc-edit value in the actual template it's called
"repeat_1:0:postcard_heading00"

the actual mc-edit value works perfectly... just so you all know :)

[jesse]

The documentation is correct. A more detailed discussion is here:

http://groups.google.com/group/mailchimp-api-discuss/browse_thread/thread/2fc50342e5a3544e/805a6f5d93d35fb0

From what you found, this is involved with some sections:

http://code.google.com/p/mailchimp-api/issues/detail?id=40

If you can reliably make them work, great, but they are not currently
supported as is.


jesse

[adamflorin]

Thanks for the tip, Wayne. I've gotten template population working
using these "namespaced" section names as well, but it took some
digging!

For instance, to fill the two columns of a "1:2 columns" style
template, you must pass in "html_repeat_1:0:tiwc300_content00" and
"html_repeat_2:0:tiwc300_content01". I sorta reverse-engineered these
by cross-referencing the template preview & source. The pattern for
these repeatable section names appears to be:

[mc:repeatable]:[mc:repeatindex]:[mc:edit]

[Madhu Shirke]

Hi! Thanks,

Your post really helpful. Can you please suggest me how to add image the into "postcard_image" section using campaignCreate() method?

I write the code as below

template_content = {'html_repeat_1:0:postcard_heading00':"Newsletter",'html_repeat_1:0:postcard_image': "<img src="https://d2q0qd5iz04n9u.cloudfront.net/_ssl/proxy.php/http/gallery.mailchimp.com/af4fc222e52ce4538b269875e/images/Welcome1350023449.jpg">",'html_repeat_1:0:std_content00': html_content}

I also tried by passing only image path also, still its not working.
and pass this content to campaignCreate() method. Heading and content will be added. Only problem with image.