This is my second post in the fetch contacts from email account series. In this post, we are going to fetch contacts from a Google account. This isn’t a detailed tutorial, but a quick 2 minute how-to.<\/p>\n
$this->config->item(‘google_return_url’) is the url of the page to which user is returned after a login attempt.<\/p>\n
1. Add the following code where the user has to select Google Mail to import contacts.<\/p>\n
2. Include these 2 functions in your PHP code. Further reading : This is my second post in the fetch contacts from email account series. In this post, we are going to fetch contacts from a Google account. This isn’t a detailed tutorial, but a quick 2 minute how-to. $this->config->item(‘google_return_url’) is the url of the page to which user is returned after …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/AuthSubRequest?next=<?php echo $this->config->item('google_return_url').'?data=abc'; ?>&scope=http:\/\/www.google.com\/m8\/feeds\/contacts\/default\/thin&secure=0&session=1\">Fetch Google Contacts<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n
\nfunction make_api_call($url, $token)
\n{
\n $ch = curl_init();
\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
\n $curlheader[0] = sprintf(\"Authorization: AuthSub token=\\\"%s\\\"\/n\", $token);
\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $curlheader);
\n $output = curl_exec($ch);
\n curl_close($ch);
\n return $output;
\n}
\n
\nfunction get_session_token($onetimetoken)
\n{
\n $output = make_api_call(\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/AuthSubSessionToken\", $onetimetoken);
\n if (preg_match(\"\/Token=(.*)\/\", $output, $matches))
\n {
\n $sessiontoken = $matches[1];
\n } else {
\n echo \"Error authenticating with Google.\";
\n exit;
\n }
\n return $sessiontoken;
\n}<\/code>
\n3. Add the following code to the return url file.<\/p>\n$sessiontoken = get_session_token($_GET['token']);
\n$contacts = make_api_call(\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/m8\/feeds\/contacts\/default\/thin?alt=json&max-results=1000\", $sessiontoken);
\n$contacts = json_decode($contacts, TRUE);
\nforeach ($contacts['feed']['entry'] as $contact)
\n{
\n $emails[] = $contact['gd$email'][0]['address'];
\n}
\n\/\/$emails array has the email addresses of all the contacts.<\/code>
\n4. That’s it folks. It is that simple.<\/p>\n
\n1. http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/contacts\/<\/a>
\n2. http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/contacts\/docs\/3.0\/reference.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"