Author Topic: CiviMail API? (Read 993 times)

Mark Tompsett · February 27, 2012, 07:24:51 am

I heard of an idea to offer an API for CiviMail but I understand that it does not yet exist, and that there does not seem to be a MIH for it yet either.

I searched the wiki and found this which seems vaguely relevant.. http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/SOAP+Access+to+CiviCRM+API ..but nothing seems to have happened on that in the past 5 years.

I guess my question is: has the idea been written up anywhere, in enough detail to evaluate whether it would be useful, ie the interface that such an API should offer?
If so, what is the current status?
What would it take to create enough interest to start a MIH initiative?

Mark

Eileen · February 27, 2012, 02:16:08 pm

I haven't heard too much chat on it.

The starting point of the API spec would be that it would take the fields in the table
'civicrm_mailing' & create an entry - e.g civicrm_api('mailing', 'create', $params);

On a very quick look I think adding a row to that table would effectively create a mailing to be sent.

Basically we tend to look at new API in terms of the absolute simplest implementation - e.g http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/branches/v4.1/api/v3/Survey.php
& then write tests to lock in that most basic level & then see what might be missing

Chris Burgess · October 01, 2013, 02:01:12 am

To help future searchers - this happened http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,24075.0.html / CRM-11023 and is in current usage (but might benefit from documentation).

Example usage (current) - https://gist.github.com/xurizaemon/6775471

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Author Topic: CiviMail API? (Read 993 times)

Mark Tompsett

CiviMail API?

Eileen

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Chris Burgess

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