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Contacts

Contacts is a small PHP library to create files containing address book information for people or organizations. Currently, vCard 3.0 is the only supported export format.

Features

• vCard 3.0 Compatibility:
  • Generates vCards that should be compatible with all applications that use vCards
  • Includes fields that are unique to the iOS and macOS contacts application (Supervisor, Anniversary, Spouse, Child)
• Flexible: future implementations will include other formats commonly used to store contact information—other vCard formats, microformats, Google contacts format, .csv format, etc.
• Method chaining for constructing contact information in a fluid interface
• The method argument order typically comes directly from the standard itself

Installation

Contacts is available as a Composer package:

1. If needed, install Composer
2. Add the following to your composer.json file

"require": {
   "jaredhowland/contacts": "~6.0"
}

Usage

Input

This is an extensive example. The code is well documented and you should get all the hints needed for using it in an IDE. Most of the time, you will only need a fraction of these fields to create a vCard:

<?php
   require 'vendor/autoload.php';

   use \Contacts\Options; // Only needed if you must override the default settings
   use \Contacts\Vcard;

   // Set desired options
   $options = new Options();
   $options->setDataDirectory('./'); // Tell app where to save `.vcf` file

   $vcard = new Vcard($options);
   $vcard->addFullName('Jane Doe');
   $vcard->addName('Doe', 'Jane');
   $vcard->addNickname('Janie, Jan');
   $vcard->addPhoto('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaredhowland/contacts/master/tests/files/photo.jpg');
   $vcard->addBirthday(10, 2, null);
   $vcard->addAddress(null, null, '123 Main', 'Provo', 'UT', '84602', 'United States', ['dom', 'postal', 'parcel', 'work']);
   $vcard->addAddress(null, null, '123 Main', 'Provo', 'UT', '84602', 'United States', ['dom', 'postal', 'parcel', 'home']);
   $vcard->addLabel('Jane Doe\n123 Main St\nProvo, UT 84602', ['dom', 'parcel']);
   $vcard->addTelephone('555-555-5555', ['cell', 'iphone']);
   $vcard->addEmail('jane_doe@domain.com');
   $vcard->addTimeZone('-7');
   $vcard->addLatLong(40.3333331, -111.7777775);
   $vcard->addTitle('System Administrator');
   $vcard->addRole('Programmer');
   // $vcard->addAgent($agent); NOT SUPPORTED
   $vcard->addOrganizations(['Awesome Company']);
   $vcard->addCategories(['School', 'Work']);
   $vcard->addNote('Not much is known about Jane Doe.');
   $vcard->addSortString('Doe');
   // $vcard->addSound($sound); NOT SUPPORTED
   $vcard->addUrl('https://www.example.com');
   // $vcard->addKey($key); NOT SUPPORTED
   $vcard->addAnniversary('2010-10-10');
   $vcard->addSupervisor('Jane Smith');
   $vcard->addSpouse('John Doe');
   $vcard->addChild('Jeff Doe');
   $vcard->addChild('Lisa Doe');
   $vcard->addExtendedType('TWITTER', '@jared_howland');
   $vcard->addUniqueIdentifier();
   $vcard->addRevision('2023-09-05'); // Added automatically if you don't call this method

   $directory->buildVcard(true, 'example');
?>

Or you can chain methods together to build the vCard:

 <?php
   require '../vendor/autoload.php';

   use \Contacts\Options;
   use \Contacts\Vcard;

   // Set desired options
   $options = new Options();
   $options->setDataDirectory('./'); // Tell app where to save `.vcf` file

   $vcard = new Vcard($options);
   $vcard->addFullName('Jane Doe')
         ->addName('Doe', 'Jane')
         ->addNickname('Janie, Jan')
         ->addPhoto('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jaredhowland/contacts/master/tests/files/photo.jpg')
         ->addBirthday(10, 2, null)
         ->addAddress(null, null, '123 Main', 'Provo', 'UT', '84602', 'United States', ['dom', 'postal', 'parcel', 'work'])
         ->addAddress(null, null, '123 Main', 'Provo', 'UT', '84602', 'United States', ['dom', 'postal', 'parcel', 'home'])
         ->addLabel('Jane Doe\n123 Main St\nProvo, UT 84602', ['dom', 'parcel'])
         ->addTelephone('555-555-5555', ['cell', 'iphone'])
         ->addEmail('jane_doe@domain.com')
         ->addTimeZone('-7')
         ->addLatLong(40.3333331, -111.7777775)
         ->addTitle('System Administrator')
         ->addRole('Programmer')
         ->addOrganizations(['Awesome Company'])
         ->addCategories(['School', 'Work'])
         ->addNote('Not much is known about Jane Doe.')
         ->addSortString('Doe')
         ->addUrl('http://www.example.com')
         ->addAnniversary('2010-10-10')
         ->addSupervisor('Jane Smith')
         ->addSpouse('John Doe')
         ->addChild('Jeff Doe')
         ->addChild('Lisa Doe')
         ->addExtendedType('TWITTER', '@jared_howland')
         ->addUniqueIdentifier()
         ->addRevision('2023-09-05') /* Added automatically with the current date and time if you don't call this method */
         ->buildVcard(true, 'example');
   // $vcard->addAgent($agent); NOT SUPPORTED
   // $vcard->addSound($sound); NOT SUPPORTED
   // $vcard->addKey($key); NOT SUPPORTED
?>

Output

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:Jane Doe
N:Doe;Jane;;;
NICKNAME:Janie,Jan
PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=JPEG:/9j/4QBwRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAABAJiCAgBLAAAAGgAAAA
 AAAABDb3B5cmlnaHQgQllVIFB …rest of binary-encoded photo
BDAY;X-APPLE-OMIT-YEAR=1604:1604-02-10
ADR;TYPE=dom,postal,parcel,work:;;123 Main;Provo;UT;84602;United States
ADR;TYPE=dom,postal,parcel,home:;;123 Main;Provo;UT;84602;United States
LABEL;TYPE=dom,parcel:Jane Doe\n123 Main St\nProvo\, UT 84602
TEL;TYPE=cell,iphone:(555) 555-5555
EMAIL;TYPE=internet:jane_doe@domain.com
TZ:-07:00
GEO:40.333333;-111.777778
TITLE:System Administrator
ROLE:Programmer
ORG:Awesome Company
CATEGORIES:School,Work
NOTE:Not much is known about Jane Doe.
SORT-STRING:Doe
URL:https://www.example.com
item1.X-ABDATE;type=pref:2010-10-10
item1.X-ABLabel:_$!<Anniversary>!$_
item2.X-ABRELATEDNAMES:Jane Smith
item2.X-ABLabel:_$!<Manager>!$_
item3.X-ABRELATEDNAMES:John Doe
item3.X-ABLabel:_$!<Spouse>!$_
item4.X-ABRELATEDNAMES:Jeff Doe
item4.X-ABLabel:_$!<Child>!$_
item5.X-ABRELATEDNAMES:Lisa Doe
item5.X-ABLabel:_$!<Child>!$_
X-TWITTER:@jared_howland
UID:5a32a74023b097.12918287
REV:2023-09-05T00:00:00Z
END:VCARD

Options

Available options and defaults in the Options class:

• setDataDirectory: ./data/
• setDefaultAreaCode: null
• setFormatUsTelephone: true

With appropriate getters:

• getDataDirectory()
• getDefaultAreaCode()
• isFormatUsTelephone()

Contribute

• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/jaredhowland/contacts/issues
• Source Code: https://github.com/jaredhowland/contacts
• Code of conduct: https://github.com/jaredhowland/contacts/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Known Issues

• Date-time values not supported for BDAY field (only date values). No plans to implement.
• Text values not supported for TZ field (only UTC-offset values). No plans to implement.
• The following vCard elements are not currently supported (no plans to implement):
  • AGENT
  • SOUND
  • KEY

Inspired by https://github.com/jeroendesloovere/vcard