PHP send email list to sparkpost API with curl

I would like to send email list to sparkpost API using curl here is the curl as in sparkpost docs

    curl -v \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: $API_KEY" \
-X GET "https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1/metrics/deliverability/aggregate?campaigns=testjob&from=2014-01-23T14:00&metrics=count_targeted,count_sent,count_accepted&timezone=America%2FNew_York&to=2014-06-23T15:50"

How do i do this with PHP curl

If you want to create an email list on the SparkPost server you can use this API: https://developers.sparkpost.com/api/recipient-lists.html#recipient-lists-create-post here is an example in PHP:

<?php

$request = new HttpRequest();
$request->setUrl('https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1/recipient-lists');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_METH_POST);

$request->setQueryData(array(
  'num_rcpt_errors' => '3'
));

$request->setHeaders(array(
  'Cache-Control' => 'no-cache',
  'Authorization' => $YOUR_API_KEY_HERE // put your API key here
));

// You will need to put PHP code that reads from your DB and puts Your recipients in that array below. You only need the address->name and address-email bit if you don't have additional metadata
$request->setBody('{
  "id": "unique_id_4_graduate_students_list",
  "name": "graduate_students",
  "description": "An email list of graduate students at UMBC",
  "attributes": {
    "internal_id": 112,
    "list_group_id": 12321
  },
  "recipients": [
    {
      "address": {
        "email": "wilmaflin@example.com",
        "name": "Wilma"
      },
      "tags": [
        "greeting",
        "prehistoric",
        "fred",
        "flintstone"
      ],
      "metadata": {
        "age": "24",
        "place": "Bedrock"
      },
      "substitution_data": {
        "favorite_color": "SparkPost Orange",
        "job": "Software Engineer"
      }
    },
    {
      "address": {
        "email": "abc@example.com",
        "name": "ABC"
      },
      "tags": [
        "driver",
        "flintstone"
      ],
      "metadata": {
        "age": "52",
        "place": "MD"
      },
      "substitution_data": {
        "favorite_color": "Sky Blue",
        "job": "Driver"
      }
    },
    {
      "address": {
        "email": "fred.jones@example.com",
        "name": "Grad Student Office",
        "header_to": "grad-student-office@example.com"
      },
      "tags": [
        "driver",
        "fred",
        "flintstone"
      ],
      "metadata": {
        "age": "33",
        "place": "NY"
      },
      "substitution_data": {
        "favorite_color": "Bright Green",
        "job": "Firefighter"
      }
    }
  ]
}');

try {
  $response = $request->send();

  echo $response->getBody();
} catch (HttpException $ex) {
  echo $ex;
}

Assuming you want to send an email to a list of recipients you have stored in SparkPost below is one way to do it in PHP.

For this to work you will need to create a "recipient list" in SparkPost here https://app.sparkpost.com/lists/recipients and provide the ID of the list in the request below. You will also need an API key that allows REST Injection which can be created here https://app.sparkpost.com/account/credentials You will also need a valid sending domain which I assume you have already setup in SparkPost.

<?php

$request = new HttpRequest();
$request->setUrl('https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1/transmissions');
$request->setMethod(HTTP_METH_POST);

$request->setHeaders(array(
  'Cache-Control' => 'no-cache',
  'Authorization' => $YOUR_SPARKPOST_API_KEY . // Put your "real" API key here or better set a variable and use that
));

$request->setBody('{
    "options": {
        "open_tracking": true,
        "click_tracking": true
    },
  "campaign_id": "test_campaign",
  "recipients": {
    "list_id": "unique_id_4_graduate_students_list" // Put your List ID here from here https://app.sparkpost.com/lists/recipients
  },
  "content": {
    "from": {
      "email": "test@test.example.com", // Change this to your proper from address
      "name": "John Doe"
    },
    "subject": "simple subject",
    "text": "simple text content",
    "html": "<b>Your HTML Content</b>"
  }
}

');

try {
  $response = $request->send();

  echo $response->getBody();
} catch (HttpException $ex) {
  echo $ex;
}

Here are a few more tips that may get your going quicker. There is a SparkPost PHP library here: https://github.com/SparkPost/php-sparkpost

Also, for more "real-time" questions and answers you can join the community Slack here: http://slack.sparkpost.com/ Once you are in check out the #php channel.

If you want to get familiar with the API you can try out the PostMan resources. Here is a good blog post to get you going: https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/how-to-run-sparkpost-postman/ Once you have that going PostMan can produce code in most common languages to help you get going quickly.