I tried to update my campaign html content using mailchimp api:
/campaigns/{campaign_id}/content
You can find more information about this api here: https://developer.mailchimp.com/documentation/mailchimp/reference/campaigns/content/#
Before sending a campaign, I tried to get campaign content html, modified it and then set campaign content html using above api. I just simply use BeautifulSoup to append a new tag to content body:
content.body.append(BeautifulSoup('<p>Mailchimp is freaking shittttt</p>'))
Then, some interesting things happen, the first campaign I created, it works fine, the tag added appears in my email. But, then the sub-sequence campaigns not working anymore, the tag added not appearing.
I observed something strange on my mailchimp campaign site, even though I set campaign html content, only Plain-Text Email gets changed (HTML Source still the old version) for both working and not working campaign.
Anyone got this issue before?
I had a similar issue and I had to take a slightly different approach to solve it. According to this answer by Joel H., "MailChimp doesn't allow updating the campaign's HTML content because the campaign type is based on a template. In order to update the HTML content, the campaign has to be set to custom HTML instead of a template."
That solution didn't suit me but it led me to another solution: creating a template, creating editable content areas within that template, and then using the API to retrieve and edit the text in those content areas.
Here is an attempt at adapting my code to solve your problem. I'm using Python 3 and the mailchimp3 client.
default_footer_content = client.templates.default_content.all(template_id=TEMPLATE_ID)['sections']['SECTION_NAME']
new_footer_content = default_footer_content.replace(PLACEHOLDER, 'Mailchimp is freaking shittttt')
client.campaigns.content.update(campaign_id=CAMPAIGN_ID, data={'template': {'id': TEMPLATE_ID, 'sections': {'SECTION_NAME': new_footer_contennt}}})
Some pointers on the above code:
You can find TEMPLATE_ID with the API or simply by copying the numbers at the end of the URL when editing the template in the web interface
You define SECTION_NAME by placing 'mc:edit="SECTION NAME"' in the appropriate place in the template
I've used .replace() rather than .append() so you will need to put PLACEHOLDER or similar at the appropriate place in the template
I hope that helps, happy to modify my answer if it needs more clarification. This is my first answer on Stack Overflow so constructive criticism appreciated :)
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I'm using LocomotiveCMS on a project and I have some doubts on what's the best approach when dealing with ajax requests to the same site.
I have a Content Type for a model called reviews. There can be plenty of review entries, so I'd like to show 20 per time, then allow fetching other 20s by hitting a button (like a 'load more' button).
What is the best approach for this? I was thinking on making a custom API controller in order to do that. It would have to find the right type of content entries based on the content type for reviews. Then add some regular javascript that hits that controller and add the new set of reviews based on a mustache template. Does it make sense or is there something that LocomotiveCMS has in order to accomplish such type of tasks?
Update:
I got an answer from the LocomotiveCMS google group. Basically somebody suggested to create a liquid template that looks like a json. For the full answer go to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/locomotivecms/vJKDtl81v7E/IEwOR9hhLjMJ
I have a MediaWiki page set up in my company's intranet.
I would like to get the content of a section in a specific page using MediaWiki API (through AJAX).
I would like to refer to the section by its title like 'General' and refer to the page by its title as well, like 'Licenses'.
Is it possible somehow?
The only thing I could achieve is referring to the page by its title and refer to the section by a number like this:
http://mywiki.local/wiki/api.php?format=xml&action=parse&prop=text&page=Licenses§ion=1
But let's say I create a new section before 'General' I would have to update all my AJAX URLs that queries this page. So this isn't good enough.
I couldn't find any working solution for this. Any ideas?
You can do this by first retrieving prop=sections to get the list of sections and their numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=parse&prop=sections&page=License
Then make your original request, with the section number you figured out based on the previous request.
Keep in mind that two different sections can have the same name.
I am trying to change the layout ( css/html structure) of Virtuemart 2 order verification emails. Problem is that I have to make a fake purchase each and every time I do a change in the 10 different files (located # components/com_virtuemart/views/invoice/order/tmpl) that create this email template.
The closest "preview" I got was this direct access url "http://domain.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=invoice&layout=invoice&format=html&tmpl=component&virtuemart_order_id=1401"
But again it loads Joomla's head/body elements not the actual email template.
So how can I have a "preview" of how the template looks like with my new changes BEFORE make an actual test purchase? Is this possible?
You shouldn't change the core files otherwise the next update of VirtueMart (of which there are many) will erase your changes.
You should use Joomla!'s template overrides which VM2 supports that way you can update as needed to new versions without loosing your changes. See this article on docs.joomla.org on "How to override the output from the Joomla! core" and this one on template overrides.
3. You need to add the &format=raw at the end of the link to retrieve just the output of the component with out the template/html body wrapped around it. Of course that relies on the component as well.
I was going to suggest using raw, but looking at the current VM2 it doesn't properly support the format=raw option. Looking at the mail layout in the invoice view it not structured to return it the way you expect, it actually generates a HTML version by default with a matching text only version.
The best I could come up given those two options
Return a close equivalent of the HTML email
http://domain.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=invoice&layout=mail&virtuemart_order_id=1401&tmpl=component
Return the text version, albeit wrapped in the html page... you may have to view the source to see your invoice text.
http://shop.craigphillips.biz/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=invoice&layout=mail_raw&virtuemart_order_id=4&tmpl=component
I'm posting this question not because I am getting some errors but because I would like to know how dajax should be used
Here is what I want to do:
I want some links on my homepage (eg. books, authors), when user clicks them, he gets a list of books/authors.
Here is what I'm doing:
When user clicks on books, I call a dajax process.
Inside ajax.py:
I get all the books using books = Book.objects.all()
I have a template = "{% for book in books %}"... blah blah blah
I render the template a = Template(template).render(Context(locals()))
I do dajax assign a as innerhtml of some div tag.
Is this the right way to do things?
Instead of writing the template in ajax.py should I open templates from some xyz.html and then render it? Any other good, clean ways to get similar tasks done?
I never heard about dajax before (but it looks like the project has gone sightly inactive as the latest commit is ~10 months old), so I'll offer advice that is not directly related to dajax.
Basically, what you need to do is to display a list that is retrieved using AJAX. That's pretty trivial using the following tools:
jQuery (or another JS framework)
JSON
What you need to do is:
Configure one of your views so that it returns a list of books (look here for the documentation)
Access this view using your JS framewok of choice (jQuery.get() for jQUery)
Using your JS framework, update some <ul> or <ol> on your page by adding the content that you retrieved through your get call (And you could place it in some overlay that you'd display).
Loading a template from a dedicated template file is in almost any case cleaner. A long python string with HTML in it is not very readable.
Of course you could also send your books via add_data(data,callback_function) and write a javascript callback function that populates the list which would be the Dajax way of doing what Thomas Orozco proposed.
But judging from the pagination example rendering a template file and sending it to innerHTML is 'the right way'.
I have many dynamically generated pages, made by the same PHP file, and I'd like the comments that are being submitted to the user's wall have a different title and summary, considering the page they were sent from. Do I need to dynamically generate the meta tags, or is there a way to embed the title and summary in the comments widget script itself?
You will need to do the first thing...dynamically generate the og tag in the head of the document. They must be set that way when sending the HTML response to the browser. They cannot be successfully updated clientside as Facebook linter only looks at the response stream.