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balasun
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Grab Outlook Express contacts using PHP

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Hello all,

I need to fetch contacts which are stored in Microsoft outlook express using PHP.

Do u have any script for these or please advice me about how can i do that.


Pls help me if u know any thing about these..

Thanks,
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php_east
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Re: Grab Outlook Express contacts using PHP

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i think you realy meant to say is that you need Outlook Express to export contacts in xml or some known format, out of the personal computer & firewall, then voluntarily posted to a website, so that it can be read by PHP. and that you are intested in that PHP.
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Re: Grab Outlook Express contacts using PHP

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Yes.. You are right.. thanks for the reply..Do u have any procedure for that?
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don't know about outlook express, but if it can export to xml, php can read it easy. other formats you may wish to consider is CSV,txt. etc. PHP can read just about any format, but you may wish to use popular formats as there will be plenty resources on them.

for xml php has built in XML parser, for CSV you can use read an explode() and similarly for text.
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Re: Grab Outlook Express contacts using PHP

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oh my, lucky you ! viewtopic.php?f=1&t=98061
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