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I had got problems with laravel-newsletter, it just didn't work. One time I received email, confirmed, but it is not visible on Mailchimp list... So, it is like, laravel-newsletter doesn't work. Please check my code and help me figure out what I have made wrong:
Controller:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Newsletter;
class NewsletterController extends Controller
{
public function store(Request $request) {
if(! Newsletter::isSubscribed($request->email)){
Newsletter::subscribePending($request->email);
return redirect('/')->with('success', 'Thanks! Check your email to accept newsletter!');
}
return redirect('/')->with('failure', 'Yeah, you are already our subscriber!');
}
}
Blade:
<div class="newsletter">
@if (session('success'))
<div class="success">
{{ session('success') }}
</div>
@endif
@if (session('failure'))
<div class="failure">
{{ session('failure') }}
</div>
@endif
<div class="newsletter-box">
<form action="{{ url('/newsletter') }}" method="post">
{{ csrf_field() }}
<p>Get special job offers for you and much more!</p>
<div class="newsletter-content">
<div class="newsletter-group"><input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Your e-mail"></div>
<div class="newsletter-group"><input value="Subscribe" type="submit"></div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
<p class="spam">No spam. Only valuable stuff guaranteed.</p>
</div>
Route:
Route::post('/newsletter', 'NewsletterController@store')->name('store');
ENV:
MAILCHIMP_APIKEY=xxx
MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID=yyy
When I type email and click "Subscribe", I get success:
"Thanks! Check your email to accept newsletter!"
but when I leave input blank and click "Subscribe", it shows error:
Type error: Argument 1 passed to Spatie\Newsletter\Newsletter::isSubscribed() must be of the type string, null given
Please help me.
You need to validate your request data as $request->email will be null if you don't supply a value.
Newsletter::isSubscribed($request->email)
You can do something like the below at the top of your store method to prevent passing invalid data to the Newsletter function.
$validatedData = $request->validate([
'email' => 'required|email',
]);
@D9705996 - Thanks, it works. When input is empty, it just reload website.
How can I add message like when I don't supply value?
Have a look at
https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/validation#quick-displaying-the-validation-errors
You can get access to the errors variable to show validation errors in your form. The generic example should get you going
@if ($errors->any())
<div class="alert alert-danger">
<ul>
@foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
<li>{{ $error }}</li>
@endforeach
</ul>
</div>
@endif
@D9705996 - Ok, thanks. I handle errors like "The email field is required"
BUT
problem is that it shows success - "Thanks! Check your email to accept newsletter!", but no email from Mailchimp arrive.
Where is the problem? Mailchimps API and List ID are good for sure.
problem is that it shows success - "Thanks! Check your email to accept newsletter!", but no email from Mailchimp arrive.
Is this when you provide a valid email?
@D9705996 - Strange, but it started working on localhost.
When testing on production I get error after submit:
Class 'Spatie\Newsletter\NewsletterFacade' not found
Strange.
Did you run composer install on your production environment?
@D9705996 - It works. 0 errors, now waiting for email.
Please, could you tell me when to know if it is necessary to run any commends like this? Also when to run php artisan cache:clear etc.? Is there any list when and which commends should I run?
Thank you!
The official documentation has a section on deployment
There are also some pre-flight check packages you can use to sanitise your application in production. My favourite is
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