Author Topic: Meaning of components in the optout URL (Read 643 times)

Dennis Gray · September 29, 2012, 04:50:21 am

CiviCRM 1.9

For various reasons, we want to send a mailing to our membership without using CiviMail. Most likely this will be done with a PHP script which will read a table extracted from CiviCRM. We want to be able to allow members to optout, though. I have looked at the format of the optout URL from a CiviMail mailing and it looks like this:

https://www.example.com/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=27502&qid=17584666&h=9f3631060b938e41

I am not sure what the various parameters mean but what I want to do is allow users to optout from a non-CiviMail mailing. I suppose there is an API that can do this so someone point me in the right direction?

Michael McAndrew · September 29, 2012, 10:46:21 am

have a look at civicrm_mailing_event_queue and associated tables.

jid=job id, qid= queue id and h = hash (the security token that stops random unsubcribes)

i don't think there is an api that allows you to create and use unsubscribe links. i guess you might be able to re-use some of the mailing logic but i would not like to do that.

there is the GroupContact api in later versions but that has no 'security hash logic'. not sure what the 1.9 equivalent is. i guess you could make your own hashes somehow and have some logic that checks against it...

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