SOAP Web Services for Dada Mail Proof of Concept

SOAP Web Services for Dada Mail Proof of Concept

You should be able to find these files in the Dada Mail distro, under, dada/extras/scripts/subscribe

and should include,

API Currently the SOAP API only provides one methods:

  • subscribe

    subscribe works much like if you submitted your own email address into a Dada Mail form, except it won't return HTML.

Introduction

The SOAP interface allows programs written in languages other than Perl and/or located on a separate system to interact with Dada Mail.

Requirements

The Perl server and the Perl client requires the SOAP::Lite CPAN distro:

http://www.soaplite.com/

http://search.cpan.org/~mkutter/SOAP-Lite-0.710.08/

The php client requires the PEAR SOAP distro:

http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP

Installation

Place both the subscribe_soap_server.cgi and subscribe_soap_client.cgi into the, "dada" directory of your working Dada Mail installation. Change the permissions of both to, "755".

Place the subscribe_soap_client.php file somewhere on your website, however you php folks do it.

Configuration

Both the, subscribe_soap_client.php and subscribe_soap_client.cgi scripts have *three* variables you may have to change:

  • $proxy

    This should hold the URL to the subscribe_soap_server.cgi script

  • $email

    This should hold an email address you'd like to validate

  • $list

    This should hold a Dada Mail list shortname you'd like to validate against

Running

The subscribe_soap_client.cgi and subscribe_soap_client.php scripts can be run simply by visiting them in a webserver. Doing so will print a simple report, like so:

        * Email: user@example.com
        * List: mylist
 
 Subscription Check: 0
 Errors: 
        * Error: already_sent_sub_confirmation
        * Error: subscribed
 done.

And, that's it.

Use the subscribe_soap_client.cgi and subscribe_soap_client.php scripts as inspiration for integration in your own perl/php programs - they, by themselves, are not complete scripts.

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