Reputation: 3207
I am trying to create a subscribe method for my laravel app that uses the mailchimp api to subscribe a user to a given list. The method works fine when the email address is not already on the lsit. when it is already subscribed the mailchimp api throws the following error
Mailchimp_List_AlreadySubscribed [email protected] is already subscribed to list Tc App Test List. Click here to update your profile.
with the following code being shown
public function castError($result) {
if($result['status'] !== 'error' || !$result['name']) throw new Mailchimp_Error('We received an unexpected error: ' . json_encode($result));
$class = (isset(self::$error_map[$result['name']])) ? self::$error_map[$result['name']] : 'Mailchimp_Error';
return new $class($result['error'], $result['code']);
}
I have attempted a try catch block to catch the error but it is still being returned to the browser, here is what I tried and were it says MailChimp_Error I tried with Exception as well.
public function subscribe($id, $email, $merge_vars)
{
try {
$this->mailchimp->lists->subscribe($id, $email, $merge_vars);
} catch (MailChimp_Error $e) {
$response = 'an error has occured';
}
return $response;
}
Ultimately I want to be able to run the method and then either return either a success message or a message describing the issue to the user. the 3 possible mailchimp method errors are Email_notexists, list_alreadysubscribed and list does not exist although tihs last one should not occur as I am providing the list in the source code.
edit 1; after being in touch with mailchimp api support they suggested this code but the error still gets returned to the browser in its entirety
try {
$results = $this->mailchimp->lists->subscribe($id, $email, $merge_vars);
} catch (Mailchimp_Error $e) {
if ($e->getMessage()) {
$error = 'Code:'.$e->getCode().': '.$e->getMessage();
}
}
echo $error;
Upvotes: 1
Views: 4671
Reputation: 3207
Subscribe is in a namespace Acme\Emails\Subscribe so catch(Mailchimp_Error $e)
looks for Mailchimp_Error
in this namespace.
Changing it to catch(\Mailchimp_Error $e)
makes it look in the root namespace and then it works as intended
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 67
You can do
try
{
$response = $this->mailchimp->lists->addListMember($list_id, [
"email_address" => $email,
"status" => "subscribed",
]);
}
catch (\EXCEPTION $e) {
return $e->getMessage();
}
The \EXCEPTION handles a sort of error for stripe
Upvotes: 4