addBulkContacts.md

Add Bulk Contacts

This guide will walk you through the process of adding new contacts to your account using the PHP library.

Required Access Level: ModifyContacts

What's contact?

When using Elastic Email, you send emails to contacts – recipients who receive your emails. Contacts can be grouped by created segments or lists.

Let's dig into the code

Put the below code to your file.

Load library using below line:

require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');

Generate and use your API key (remember to check a required access level):

define('MY_APIKEY', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
$config = ElasticEmail\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('X-ElasticEmail-ApiKey', MY_APIKEY);

Get client instance:

$apiInstance = new ElasticEmail\Api\ContactsApi(
    new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
    $config
);

Create an instance of ContactsApi that will be used to add contacts.

$list_name = "My Contacts 1";
$encoding_name = "UTF-8";
$file = "my-contacts.csv";

$response = $apiInstance->contactsImportPost($list_name, $encoding_name, $file);

The whole code to copy and paste:

require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');

define('MY_APIKEY', 'YOUR_API_KEY');

$config = ElasticEmail\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('X-ElasticEmail-ApiKey', MY_APIKEY);

$apiInstance = new ElasticEmail\Api\ContactsApi(
    new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
    $config
);

$list_name = "My Contacts 1";
$encoding_name = "UTF-8";
$file = "my-contacts.csv";

try {
    $response = $apiInstance->contactsImportPost($list_name, $encoding_name, $file);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Exception when calling ContactsApi->contactsImportPost: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}