Creating Contacts with Infusionsoft API and Classic ASP

Although it has been years since I have worked in classic ASP, I recently addressed a question on the Infusionsoft Developer Forum in which the original poster referred to me as a genius for solving his problem. How could I not create an entire blog from that single comment?

Below is a sample of the ASP code required to create a contact. This example uses VBScript and assumes that the ASP XML-RPC library is already installed on the web server.

[sourcecode language=”vb”]
<!–#include virtual="/aspxmlrpc/code/xmlrpc.asp" –>
<%

Dim key, url, contact, contactId
Dim contactParamList, optinParamList

‘key is the encrypted API key you got from Infusionsoft
key = "theKey"

‘URL is the API Url you got from Infusionsoft
url = "https://theApp.infusionsoft.com:443/api/xmlrpc"

‘Scripting.Dictionary used to represent XML-RPC struct
Set contact = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
contact.Add "FirstName", "Barney"
contact.Add "LastName", "Fife"
contact.Add "Email", "barney.fife@wamley.com"
contact.Add "DateCreated", Date

‘contactParamList will hold parameters to the service call
ReDim contactParamList(2)
contactParamList(0) = key
Set contactParamList(1) = contact

‘Make the API call. The result is the ID of the new contact
contactId = xmlRPC (url, "ContactService.add", contactParamList)

‘Clean up and print results
Set contact = Nothing

ReDim optinParamList(3)
optinParamList(0) = key
optinParamList(1) = "barney.fife@wamley.com"
optinParamList(2) = "Opted in through API"

‘Call method from xmlrpc.asp include file
xmlRPC url, "APIEmailService.optIn", optinParamList

%>
[/sourcecode]

The Infusionsoft API has five services that allow developers to request or post information. The two services that I have used for this example are the Contact Service and the APIEmailService.

The ContactService.add method will add a contact to your application, which essentially has the same affect as the DataService.add method with the only exception being the execution of a configurable Action Set that is executed when a contact is added.

Another point to note is the final API call to APIEmailService.optIn method. This call is not required when creating a new contact, as the ContactService.add method will automatically single opt-in a user. If on the other hand, we were to have updated that email address for a contact with the ContactService.update method, the email address would need to have the APIEmailService.optIn method run.

Links to the XML-RPC libraries can be found on the Resources page.