Question

Hi guys I’m building a facility to be able to generate a csv file for import into outlook. However the thing is that my web application allows the user to enter unlimited contact entires i.e a contact can have unlimited telephone addresses, emails and other user defined fields which apprently aren’t in outlook – yet I need a way to be able to export atleast all these fields into outlook using php.

How can I handle this considering that outlook stores a limited number of telephones and emails for each contact and how woudl I be able to enter user defined fields into outlook using a user defined csv. I’m using php here – my database structure is kinda liek this:

CONTACTS:
ID | NAME | .....

CONTACT_INFO
ID | TYPE | DETAILS | CONTACT_ID

// where type can be phone, fax, email and details are the actual number or email address etc 

Answer 1

I dont think you can override the outlook limits,
you have 2 choices that i see:

1. limit you php application (why should they need unlimited phones and addresses?)
2. split a large contact to several enteries with the same name