Newsletter- Helpful In Laravel Services

Saurabh Dhariwal

Saurabh Dhariwal

Published On -

25 November 2017

Last Updated -

01 November 2023
Laravel
Laravel 5 and Mailchimp Newsletter

Introduction:

  • Laravel Newsletter integrates with MailChimp API.
  • MailChimp provides manage subscribers, send emails using campaign and also track email results etc.
  • Through MailChimp, you can track how many subscribers in your list account open an email and read.
  • I use spatie/laravel-newsletter for mailchimp-newsletter.

Create MailChimp Account Setting:

  • If you don’t have Mailchimp account then create it from MailChimp. 
  • Create a list in your MailChimp account. Then click on the created list and go to settings -> List name and defaults and copy and get your ListID.
  • Then get the MailChimp API Key from API Key.

    
    Setup .env configuration:
    Add your MailChimp API Key and LIst ID in .env file
 

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Install Package for MailChimp Newsletter:

We will install spatie/laravel-newsletter package for use MailChimp API methods. So first you can run below command in your cmd.
 

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After install MailChimp Newsletter package we need to add below provider path and alias path in config/app.php.

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We need to create laravel-newsletter.php for setup MailChimp Newsletter variables.
To publish the config file to app/config/laravel-newsletter.php run in your cmd:
 

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This will publish a file laravel-newsletter.php in your config directory with the following contents and set your mailchimp apikey .env variable and list :

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Usage:
    
After installing the package and fill in the values in the config-file working with this package.
 

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Subscribing,  unsubscribing and delete subscriber 
 

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You can also pass some merge variables as the second argument, third argument as list name and you can also subscribe update someone:

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