Sample Send with Mandrill Using tags and templates

php

require 'Mandrill.php';

$mandrill = new Mandrill('YOUR_API_KEY');

$message = array(
    'subject' => 'My subject',
    'from_email' => 'marc@example.com',
    'to' => array(array('email' => 'recipient1@example.com', 'name' => 'Marc')),
    'merge_vars' => array(array(
        'rcpt' => 'recipient1@example.com',
        'vars' =>
        array(
            array(
                'name' => 'FIRSTNAME',
                'content' => 'Recipient 1 first name'),
            array(
                'name' => 'LASTNAME',
                'content' => 'Last name')
    ))));

$template_name = 'YOUR-TEMPLATE-NAME';

$template_content = array(
    array(
        'name' => 'main',
        'content' => 'Hi *|FIRSTNAME|* *|LASTNAME|*, thanks for signing up.'),
    array(
        'name' => 'footer',
        'content' => 'Copyright 2013.')

);

$response = $mandrill->messages->sendTemplate($template_name, $template_content, $message);
print_r($response);