Interspire Email Marketer XML API Settings Version 5

Posted April 21st, 2009 in Interspire Email Marketer (Updated December 6th, 2010)

Interspire Email Marketer is an email marketing system using PHP and MySQL and has a powerful API system for interacting with it from other scripts. This post looks at how to check the XML API is enabled and how to get the XML token needed when logging in to the API. Future posts will show how to use the API to do various functions. Click here for more details about Interspire's Email Marketer.

Enabling the XML API with version 6

The information in this post shows how to enable the XML API for version 5 of Interspire's Email Marketer. The screens have changed slightly for version 6 and I have covered this in a separate post here.

Enabling the XML API with version 5

After logging in to the email marketer interface click "User Accounts" in the navigation at the top right. This is shown in the screenshot below where I have highlight the user accounts option with a red box.

This brings up a list of users showing their username, full name, activity status, user type and action links for editing and deleting. This is shown in the screenshot from which I've removed some of the details for reasons of space. Click the "Edit" link to edit/view the user's details. This is highlighted again with a red box.

At the top of the edit user account page are some tabs; click the "User Permissions" tab as shown in the screenshot below and again highlighted with a red box.

There are a large number of user permission options on the resulting page. Scroll down until you find the "Enable the XML API" option as shown in the screenshot below.

To enable the XML API make sure the box is checked and the XML path is correct. By default the user name for the XML API is the same as the user login but you can change this. The last box labelled "XML Token" is what you need along with the "XML Username" when connecting to the Interspire Email Marketer XML API.

It can be re-generated at any time by clicking the "Regenerate XML API Token" link. If you do this make sure to update your scripts that call the API otherwise they will no longer work.