OpenEMM Support

[oemmnewbie]

Hello Experts,

what is the suggested way to subscribe a new User to a list via "Double Opt In" via the WebServices?

Normally the List Subscription in OpenEMM is done via the forms. However I have to subscribe someone via a webservice call. It would be very kind to answer what I have to do.

The WebService Method that will Add a new User is:
addSubscriber

Thanks very much!
Jens

[Shuro]

Hello oemmnewbie, you could solve the "Double Opt In" with your code, in example PHP.

If the user has double opt in accepted, first you could check with "findSubscriber"-Webservice if the user-email exists in openemm.
Example:

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$o_soap_client->findSubscriber("webserviceuser", "webservicepass", "email", "user@email.com");

This returns the user-id or 0, on 0 you can create a new user and bindings, else you could add new bindings to exist user.

[oemmnewbie]

Hello Shuro,

thanks a million times for your answer!

I am sorry, I had to realize my question was not formulated very well. Your answer absolutelyhelpfull as this would be the next problem I would have encountered, thats the way I will then use to bind a user a to mailing list.

My initial question was actually meant as "how can I add a user to openeem" so that the user is only added if he "douple opted-in".

I understand that the addSubscriber adds a Subscriber to the openemm database. This seems to be the same "process" as manually adding a user via the admin frontend to openemm. But by using this Webservices method (or by manually adding a User) it seems to be, that openemm assumes the user has already given his "consent/agreement" to receive emails. (so NO double opt in verification is triggered)

What I want to do is (via Webservices):

1. Add a new User Data to openemm (via Webservice)
2. Openemm then should send out the double opt in Email to the user

(This second step is the step I have not yet figured out how to trigger the "Opt in Email" when a user had been added via the Webservice "addSubscriber" method.)

Thank you very much and have a nice weekend!
Jens

[Shuro]

I think this is not possible... if you want to use web-services you must also do the double-opt-in outside of openemm.

As an example:

You have an form with html + php for register, you save the data in your database (not openemm) and send a mail with php to the user (confirm email), if he click the link, the web-services (both create and bind subscriber) will run with the data from your database and create the subscriber.

Sorry, there is no better solution...(i think so, no guarantee)

Good luck!