Mandrill ValidationError

Question

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My question is this. I am getting the

Answer 1

Have been experimenting with Dan's curl setup to post html enriched messages to Mandrill, but this time using html in the template_content: [] array of the message/send-template.json api.

What i noticed was that this setup (fix by Bansi included) seemed to work in Mandrill's try out page : https://mandrillapp.com/api/docs/messages.JSON.html#method=send-template

But in my php script, i kept receiving this stubborn You must specify a key value error. Apparantly thanks to this thread, i solved the issue by adding utf8 as charset to the request headers:

$ch = curl_init();
$headers = array("Content-type: application/json;charset=\"utf-8\""); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $uri);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postString);

$result = curl_exec($ch);