Unable to submit to mailchimp via Uniform Plugin

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This is an older topic but I want to share my solution based on @jimbobrjames’ kind help here (Uniform by @mzur + Mailchimp API - #4 by jimbobrjames) and in the discord channel. Maybe it helps someone in the future—especially since I can’t find any documentation on this from Mailchimp’s side.

Keeping Uniform’s validations in place but replacing the webhook action with a Remote call wrapped in a try-catch-statement:

try {
    $url = 'https://usXX.api.mailchimp.com/3.0/lists/XXXXXX/members/';
    $data = [
        'email_address' => $data['email'],
        "status" => "pending",
        'merge_fields'  => [
            'FNAME' => $data['firstname'],
            'LNAME' => $data['lastname'],
        ],
    ];
    $options = [
        'headers' => [     
            'Content-Type: application/json',
            'Authorization: Basic XXXXXX',
        ],
        'method' => 'POST',
        'data'   => json_encode($data),
    ];

    $response = Remote::request($url, $options);

    // do whatever you need to with the response

} catch (Exception $error) {
    return Response::json(['message' => 'The submission could not be sent: ' . $error->getMessage()], 400);
}
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