Create a basic MailChimp signup form using their API

Question

I\'m new to MailChimp and need some help.

With their basic newsletter signup form... you simply embed some prepackaged HTML into your page. However the problem with

Answer 1

Here's another example of using version 2.0 of the Mailchimp API using the Official PHP Wrapper.

The difference between my example and others posted here is that I'm using the subscribe method of the Mailchimp_Lists class, accessible through instantiation of the Mailchimp class (->lists), rather than the generic call method.

$api_key = "MAILCHIMP_API_KEY";
$list_id = "MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID";

require('Mailchimp.php');
$Mailchimp = new Mailchimp($api_key);
$subscriber = $Mailchimp->lists->subscribe($list_id, array('email' => $_POST['email']));

if ( ! empty($subscriber['leid'])) {
    // Success
}