Vertical Response API Usage in Perl

A sample application that demonstrates how to build basic functionality using the Vertical Response API and Perl.

About This Sample

This sample application implements several high-level features and illustrates how to leverage the Vertical Response API. The sample implements the following functionality:

• Logging into the Vertical Response system and attaining a SessionID
• Creating a list
• Adding a record to the list
• Create an email campaign using the freeform
• Add HTML & text content to the campaign
• Attach list to campaign
• Send a test email for the campaign
• Launch campaign
• Get list of sent campaign

Prerequisites & Notes

• Create a Vertical Response account (http://www.verticalresponse.com/)
• Contact us to have your account enabled for API access.
• Optional Step: Vertical Response can provided you with a certificate and a passphrase.
• The sample was tested on Mac OS X
• This sample will work on Perl 5.8.6 and above
• You must download the VR::API packaged from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org)
• There are two flavors of this, you can use the VR::API or the VR::API::Partner which is specifically designed for the Partner API.
• Requires SOAP::Lite package installed

Running The Sample

1. Download and extract the VRAPI_perl.zip file contents
2. Open VRAPI_lifecycle.pl solution in a text editor.
3. Enter your access identifiers:
1. Open VRAPI_lifecycle.pl 
2. Put the correct path to your version of Perl, if you do not know the path type in "whereis perl" to locate the path.
   
3. From line 13-15
   
4. open VRAPI_data.pl and modify lines 11-13
   
5. In VRAPI_lifecycle.Perl modify lines 10-11

4. Run the application by typing ./VRAPI_lifecycle.pl