Mandrill ValidationError

Question

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My question is this. I am getting the

Answer 1

I don't know about mandrill, but your $content string has double quotes" in it and your delimiter in the $postString is also double quotes. This is going to break in any language. You need to escape the double quotes in the $content as required by mandril.

"html": "' . $content . '", will translate to

"html": "
this is the emails html content
",
                                            ^                ^

Try

 "html": "' . str_replace('"','\\"',$content) . '",
 "text": "' . str_replace('"','\\"',$content_text) . '",

Instead of

 "html": "' . $content . '",
 "text": "' . $content_text . '",