Question

I am working on a simple email importer script. From what posts on this site have said, the ones that are for sale are either dodgy, or not worth the money spent, and as I know PHP and JS I thought this can’t be hard, after all I have worked with Twitter API, and Facebook API.

However I seem to ran into a little bump in the road.

You see I am using Yahoo’s very own script Yahoo.inc – http://developer.yahoo.com/social/sdk/php/

And all is going well as possible. However when I try to get the contacts I seem not to be able to. Now I have in the API settings for my app, ask for read request for contacts so I know it not that issue.

Here is my code I am using

$contacts = $user->getContacts();

However it seems not work work, it’s like I am missing something. What is the correct way to get emails from the getContacts function Yahoo offers?

Answer 1

instead of the getContacts(), you can use a yql query for that:

$session = YahooSession::requireSession(OAUTH_CONSUMER_KEY, OAUTH_CONSUMER_SECRET, OAUTH_APP_ID);   
$query = sprintf("select * from social.contacts where guid=me;");  
$response = $session->query($query); 


/**** printing the contact emails starts ****/
if(isset($response)){

   foreach($response->query->results->contact as $id){

       foreach($id->fields as $subid){

               if( $subid->type == 'email' )
               echo $subid->value."<br />";
       }
   }
}
/**** printing the contact emails ends ****/