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Retrieve a Single Contact

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Demonstrates how to retrieve a single contact (by contactId) for the Google Contacts API.

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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 contact, send the following:

// 	GET /m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}
// 	GData-Version: 3.0

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

$sbPath = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$sbPath->Append('/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}');
// Get the contact having contactId = "7b1c7b6409e718a0"
$numReplacements = $sbPath->Replace('{contactId}','7b1c7b6409e718a0');

$sbResponseBody = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb('GET',$sbPath->getAsString(),$sbResponseBody);
if ($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_contact.xml');

// Now let's parse the XML...
print 'title: ' . $xml->getChildContent('title') . "\n";

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

// The response body XML looks something like this:

// 	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
// 	<entry gd:etag="&quot;R3kzezVSLit7I2A9XRFaFE8DQAU.&quot;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch" xmlns:gContact="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
// 	    <id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/base/7b1c7b6409e718a0</id>
// 	    <updated>2016-11-18T00:41:56.783Z</updated>
// 	    <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2016-11-18T00:41:56.783Z</app:edited>
// 	    <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact" />
// 	    <title>Chilkat Cloud</title>
// 	    <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo" type="image/*" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/support%40chilkatcloud.com/7b1c7b6409e718a0" gd:etag="&quot;fgVhPls4Sit7I2BWHUlTWkQMKHUZKHkkaiw.&quot;" />
// 	    <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/full/7b1c7b6409e718a0" />
// 	    <link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/full/7b1c7b6409e718a0" />
// 	    <gd:name>
// 	        <gd:fullName>Chilkat Cloud</gd:fullName>
// 	        <gd:givenName>Chilkat</gd:givenName>
// 	        <gd:familyName>Cloud</gd:familyName>
// 	    </gd:name>
// 	    <gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other" address="support@chilkatcloud.com" primary="true" />
// 	    <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/groups/support%40chilkatcloud.com/base/6" />
// 	</entry>

?>