Mailchimp Does not work on production [laravel on azure] - php

Question

I deployed a small laravel app that subscribes a user to a mailchimp list.
it's very basic yet it does not work on production
NOTE: EVERYTHING is fine in Localhost env and a CONTACT FORM WORKS FINE(uses SMTP)
.env
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=AUSERNAME
MAIL_PASSWORD=APASSWORD
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=TLS
MAILCHIMP_APIKEY=APIKEYHERE
MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID=LISTIDHERE
Controller
Newsletter::subscribe($request->email, [
'firstName' => 'test',
'lastName' => 'tessst',
'listName' => 'whishlist' ], 'subscribers');
return response()->json([
'status' => 'success',
'msg' => 'Subscribed successfully']);
laravel-newsletter Config file
<?php
return [
'apiKey' => env('MAILCHIMP_APIKEY'),
'defaultListName' => 'subscribers',
'lists' => [
'subscribers' => [
'id' => '5920168294',
],
'whishlist' => [
'id' => '8e553f3d39',
],
],
];
My i guess is that this has something to do with HTTPS (i fixed the issue by adding a file cacert.pem and referencing it in php.ini )
if this is the issue how can i fix this on azure?
And sorry there is no error output since it returns success to the ajax call.(if how can i get the response from mailchimp to check the error?)
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well i dont know what is the issue here.
but i managed to make this work when i got rid of the package i'm using which is spatie/laravel-newsletter and used CURL instead and API V3.
$email = $request->email;
$listid = env('MAILCHIMP_LIST_ID');
$apikey = env('MAILCHIMP_APIKEY');
$server = substr($apikey, strpos($apikey, '-') + 1);
$auth = base64_encode('user:' . $apikey);
$data = array(
'apikey' => $apikey,
'email_address' => $email,
'status' => 'subscribed',
'merge_fields' => array(
'FNAME' => 'test1',
'LNAME' => 'test2',
),
);
$json_data = json_encode($data);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://'. $server.'api.mailchimp.com/3.0/lists/'. $listid .'/members/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json',
'Authorization: Basic ' . $auth));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'PHP-MCAPI/2.0');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json_data);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;