Subscribe new users automatically to your MailChimp* list by using e-mail piping

• Processes the received e-mail message and parses the name, surname and from address.
• Registers the user to the newsletter by sending the data via MailChimp API.
• Writes log files mailchimp.log (logs subscription info) and emails.log (optional, see configuration) for diagnostics.

• Edit the config.inc.php and add your MailChimp API key and list ID.
• On your server, create a new directory (preferably outside public_html) and upload the PHP files.
• Setup a pipe to the script | /home/user/script_dir/mailchimp.php. This maybe slightly different depending on your hosting provider. Please check the docs.
• If you don't want to write a detailed log file including the e-mail body, in mailchimp.php, set $detailedLogging to false.
• Do not forget to make mailchimp.php script executable. Something like chmod 755 mailchimp.php should do it.

The first line has to point to the PHP command line on the server, something like: #!/usr/bin/php -q or #!/usr/local/bin/php -q

Immediately after this line, <?php tag should start. This is to ensure that the file does not have any output. Make sure that there aren't any extra spaces and line feeds outside <?php ... ?>, and also avoid using output functions like echo() or var_dump().

Otherwise, even though the script will work as expected, the sender of the e-mail will receive an e-mail indicating that his message was not delivered along with the output of the PHP script. You definitely don't want that.

• PlancakeEmailParser by Danyuki Software Limited
• MailChimp API 1.3 and MCAPI PHP Wrapper 1.3.2

-- Coded by @tolgamorf on Mar 11, 2013.