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Find Contact Having Email Address

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Demonstrates how to fetch the Google Contact for a given email address.

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<?php

$success = 0;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Note: The code for setting up the Chilkat REST object and making the initial connection can be done once.
// Once connected, the REST object may be re-used for many REST API calls.
// (It's a good idea to put the connection setup code in a separate function/subroutine.)
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// It is assumed we previously obtained an OAuth2 access token.
// This example loads the JSON access token file 
// saved by this example: Get Google Contacts OAuth2 Access Token

$jsonToken = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile('qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json');
if ($success != 1) {
    print 'Failed to load googleContacts.json' . "\n";
    exit;
}

$gAuth = new COM("Chilkat.AuthGoogle");
$gAuth->AccessToken = $jsonToken->stringOf('access_token');

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

// Connect using TLS.
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect('www.google.com',443,1,$bAutoReconnect);

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
$rest->SetAuthGoogle($gAuth);

// ----------------------------------------------
// OK, the REST connection setup is completed..
// ----------------------------------------------

// To retrieve the contacts, we need to send the following:

// 	GET /m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?q=<emailAddress>
// 	GData-Version: 3.0

// Get the contact (or contacts) with this email address:
$emailAddressToFind = 'admin@chilkatsoft.com';

$rest->AddHeader('GData-Version','3.0');
$rest->AddQueryParam('q',$emailAddressToFind);

$sbResponseBody = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb('GET','/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full',$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if ($rest->ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    print 'response status code = ' . $rest->ResponseStatusCode . "\n";
    print 'response status text = ' . $rest->ResponseStatusText . "\n";
    print 'response header: ' . $rest->ResponseHeader . "\n";
    print 'response body: ' . $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
// in the response body.
$xml = new COM("Chilkat.Xml");
$xml->LoadSb($sbResponseBody,0);

// See below for a sample response body.
$xml->SaveXml('qa_output/google_contacts.xml');

// Now let's parse the XML...

// Get the the total number of results, the start index, and the items per page.
// We'll likely NOT get the full list, but will instead get the 1st page.
$totalResults = $xml->GetChildIntValue('openSearch:totalResults');
$startIndex = $xml->GetChildIntValue('openSearch:startIndex');
$itemsPerPage = $xml->GetChildIntValue('openSearch:itemsPerPage');
print 'totalResults = ' . $totalResults . "\n";
print 'startIndex = ' . $startIndex . "\n";
print 'itemsPerPage = ' . $itemsPerPage . "\n";

// We'll borrow a method from FileAccess to get the contactId from the URL string (see the code in the while loop)
$fac = new COM("Chilkat.FileAccess");

// Iterate over each contact.
$numEntries = $xml->NumChildrenHavingTag('entry');
$i = 0;
while ($i < $numEntries) {
    $xml->I = $i;
    print ($i + 1) . ' ----' . "\n";
    print 'title: ' . $xml->getChildContent('entry[i]|title') . "\n";

    // The entry "id" child contains a URL having this format:
    // <id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/{userEmail}/base/{contactId}</id>
    // Let's get the URL and parse the contactId from it..
    $idUrl = $xml->getChildContent('entry[i]|id');
    print 'id: ' . $idUrl . "\n";

    // Use the parsing ability of GetFileName to get the contactId
    $contactId = $fac->getFileName($idUrl);
    print 'contactId: ' . $contactId . "\n";

    $fullName = $xml->chilkatPath('entry[i]|gd:name|gd:fullName|*');
    if ($xml->LastMethodSuccess == 1) {
        print 'fullName: ' . $fullName . "\n";
    }

    $emailAddress = $xml->chilkatPath('entry[i]|gd:email|(address)');
    if ($xml->LastMethodSuccess == 1) {
        print 'email address: ' . $emailAddress . "\n";
    }

    $i = $i + 1;
}


?>