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March 4, 2016 at 7:16 am

Hi Nikki,

There’s a hook available within the MailChimp Add-on that allows you to alter the details sent to MailChimp, that is:

FHEE__EE_MCI_Controller__mci_submit_to_mailchimp__subscribe_args

MailChimp passes the subcription arguments, datetime and EVT_ID to that filter so you can do something like this:

https://github.com/eventespresso/ee-code-snippet-library/blob/master/addons/eea-mailchimp/tw_eea_mailchimp_start_date.php

You can add that to a functions plugin to pass the value over.

That function pulls all of the datetimes assigned to a ticket (as you can have more than 1) and uses the next upcoming datetimes start_date. You’ll also need to add a merge var to your MailChimp list called EVENTDATE – http://take.ms/FVVkq

Your subscribers will then have the date like this – http://take.ms/PLnIU

Is that what you need?

March 4, 2016 at 4:46 pm

Are you using the latest version of the MailChimp Add-on? (currently 2.3.2)

March 6, 2016 at 9:12 am

Hello,

How was the sample function that Tony shared added to your site?

Is it through a site specific plugin? If so, could you verify that it is enabled?

—
Lorenzo

March 6, 2016 at 5:29 pm

Hi, could you provide us with a copy of the file as a zip?

You can upload to Dropbox and post it here and we’ll take a look.

Thanks!

—
Lorenzo

March 7, 2016 at 2:41 am

Hi Nikki,

That plugin looks fine, so we’ll need to do a little digging.

In the event have your selected the list that added the merge var to? The event date merge var you created should be showing in the list of available vars, like this – http://take.ms/ilY9r

Can you take a screen shot of your merge list vars and post that here to please?

March 7, 2016 at 12:52 pm

Ok, that’s fine.

Can you also post a screenshot of your MailChimp list merge vars please.

MailChimp -> {List} -> Settings -> list field and merge tags.

It should look like this – http://take.ms/byitD

It’s the merge tag that’s important on this step.

March 8, 2016 at 3:32 am

Hmmm, that should all work fine.

Can you link me to the event you are testing this with please?

One way to confirm if the function is working is to write the contents of $subsribe_args to file before returning it.

Add this:

if ( ! function_exists('write_log')) {
	function write_log ( $log )  {
		if( is_array( $log ) || is_object( $log ) ) {
			error_log( print_r( $log, true ) );
		} else {
			error_log( $log );
		}
	}
}

Into your plugin, outside of the above function.

Then add:

write_log( $subscribe_args );

Just before the

return $subscribe_args;

It should look like this – http://take.ms/yAUFZ

Then retest but make sure WPDebug is on enabled and using this code:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', TRUE );
if ( WP_DEBUG ) {
	define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', TRUE );
	define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', TRUE );
	define( 'SCRIPT_DEBUG', TRUE );
}

That will then write the contents of $subscribe_args to /wp-content/debug.log

It should looks something like this:

Array
(
    [apikey] => xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    [id] => 2c54e7ae27
    [email] => Array
        (
            [email] => mc008@example.com
        )

    [double_optin] => 
    [merge_vars] => Array
        (
            [EMAIL] => mc008@eventespresso.com
            [FNAME] => Tony
            [LNAME] => Warwick
            [EVENTDATE] => 04/05/2016
        )

)

If that’s all working then the function is pulling in the datetime and adding it into your subscribe calls as expected.