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February 17, 2018 at 5:52 pm

Hi There,

I just spent quite some time trying to work out EE kept telling my my MailChimp API was invalid, when in fact I knew that it was valid and the same API key worked perfectly well in MailChimp for WP plugin on the same site….

An error has occurred:
Invalid_ApiKey
Mailchimp_Admin_Page – _update_mailchimp – 171

Sifting through the EE Mailchimp plugin class files I found the issue. It uses CURL_EXEC to register the API key, and CURL_EXEC is in the list of disable_functions on my server.

removing CURL_EXEC from the list immediately resolved the issue, however I don’t want to do that permanently as it potentially dangerous function.

Noting that this makeRequest function checks if CURL_INIT exists and runs the else clause if not, I tried adding that to the disable_functions list but this did not work. It seems function_exists returns TRUE even if the function is disabled via disable_functions.

I would suggest checking if this function exists and is enabled in this makeRequest function.
Just my two cents worth – I’m not a developer.

private function makeRequest($method, $args=array())
    {      
        $args['apikey'] = $this->api_key;

        $url = $this->api_endpoint.'/'.$method.'.json';

        if (function_exists('curl_init') && function_exists('curl_setopt')){
            $ch = curl_init();
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json'));
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'PHP-MCAPI/2.0');       
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, $this->verify_ssl);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($args));
            $result = curl_exec($ch);
            curl_close($ch);
        } else {
            $json_data = json_encode($args);
            $result    = file_get_contents($url, null, stream_context_create(array(
                'http' => array(
                    'protocol_version' => 1.1,
                    'user_agent'       => 'PHP-MCAPI/2.0',
                    'method'           => 'POST',
                    'header'           => "Content-type: application/json\r\n".
                                          "Connection: close\r\n" .
                                          "Content-length: " . strlen($json_data) . "\r\n",
                    'content'          => $json_data,
                ),
            )));
        }

        return $result ? json_decode($result, true) : false;
    }