How can I retrieve contacts using this?

[benswinburne]

I have been looking through all of the examples

here https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/php/
and here https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client/tree/master/examples

and the services https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client/tree/master/src/Google/Service

but there doesn't appear to be any services which use the scopes which the api documentation states to use.

This may not be the right place to ask but I'm struggling to find any useful documentation or working tutorials which relate to this.

Cheers

[ianbarber]

Unfortunately the contacts API is one of the older GData ones, while this library is for the newer APIs. You can use the OAuth part of the library to request the scope (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly), and use the token to make the request, but you'll have to parse the data manually. Zend Framework does have the Zend_Gdata classes that might make reading the results a bit easier!

[kyogaraj]

Is there any contacts service to get google contacts from gmail and export back to gmail working in google-api-php-client? I could

I don't see any google contact service still, should we gohead and use zend framework?
I'm creating a new entry in a very very weird way as shown below. I alsoi want to do batch creation, or batch update/. I don't know how to work around that. Any help would be appreciated.

function createNewEntry($accesstoken){

$_POST[] = array();
$_POST['fname'] ='the_first_name';
$_POST['lname'] = 'the_last_name'
$_POST['email_id'] = '**@***.edu';
$_POST['phone'] = '888-888-8888';
$_POST['postal'] = '9**42';
$_POST['country'] = 'USA';
$_POST['address'] = '123 st, apt 123, 123city';

// create new entry
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->formatOutput = true;

$entry = $doc->createElement('atom:entry');
$entry->setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/', 'xmlns:atom', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom');
$entry->setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/', 'xmlns:gd', 'http://schemas.google.com/g/2005');
$doc->appendChild($entry);

$cat = $doc->createElement('atom:category');
$cat->setAttribute('scheme', 'http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind');
$cat->setAttribute('term', 'http://schemas.google.com/
        /2008#contact');
$entry->appendChild($cat);

// add name element
$name = $doc->createElement('gd:name');
$entry->appendChild($name);
$givenName = $doc->createElement('gd:givenName', $_POST['fname']);
$familyName = $doc->createElement('gd:familyName', $_POST['lname']);
$fullName = $doc->createElement('gd:fullName', $_POST['fname'] . $_POST['lname']);
$name->appendChild($givenName);
$name->appendChild($familyName);
$name->appendChild($fullName);

$content = $doc->createElement('atom:content', 'Notes');
$content->setAttribute('type', 'text');
$entry->appendChild($content);
// add email element
$email = $doc->createElement('gd:email');
$entry->appendChild($email);
$email->setAttribute('address', $_POST['email_id']);
$email->setAttribute('displayName', $_POST['fname']);
$email->setAttribute('primary', 'true');

$email->setAttribute('rel', 'http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work');

// add im element
$im = $doc->createElement('gd:im');
$entry->appendChild($im);
$im->setAttribute('address', $_POST['email_id']);
$im->setAttribute('protocol', 'http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#GOOGLE_TALK');
$im->setAttribute('primary', 'true');
$im->setAttribute('rel', 'http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home');
// add phone element
$ph = $doc->createElement('gd:phoneNumber', $_POST['phone']);
$entry->appendChild($ph);
$ph->setAttribute('rel', 'http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home');

//insert Address
$address = $doc->createElement('gd:structuredPostalAddress');
$address->setAttribute('primary', 'true');
$address->setAttribute('rel', 'http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work');
$entry->appendChild($address);
$postal = $doc->createElement('gd:postcode', $_POST['postal']);
$country = $doc->createElement('gd:country', $_POST['country']);
$fulladd = $doc->createElement('gd:formattedAddress', $_POST['address']);
$address->appendChild($postal);
$address->appendChild($country);
$address->appendChild($fulladd);

$contact_detail = $doc->saveXML();


$url = 'https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?&v=3.0&oauth_token='. $accesstoken;
$curl = curl_init();
print_r("auth url is $url");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 5);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $contact_detail);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

$curlheader[0] = "Content-Type: application/atom+xml";
$curlheader[2] = "Content-length:" . strlen($contact_detail);
$curlheader[1] = "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary";
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $curlheader);

$xmlresponse = curl_exec($curl);

echo '<pre>';
print "added liz@gmail.com";
var_dump($xmlresponse);
echo '</pre>';

}