Please integrate Gmail Contact Importer

Hi there,
i have integrated the gmail import script written by Svetlozar Petrov as a separate module, which extends the invite module.
As for now it is not fully tested, neither pretty, but it works.

How it works:
- Menu item "Get GMail contacts" added. Path invite/gmail.
- Display username / password form.
- Pass data to get_contacts function of gmail.php which returns array of contacts.
- set $_SESSION['invite_failed_emails'] which is used by invite.module.
- show invite page with gmail contacts filled in the email form.

Known issues:
- It currently requires the multiple invite functionality which is implemented in the latest (only 5.1? or is there a backport?) version of invite.
- I haven't yet contacted the original author of the import script. Due to that fact i did not change anything within the gmail.php
- As far as i know the script only uses unencrypted http to contact gmail.
- username/password form not yet validated.

Feedback appreciated.

Just a quick note until time permits testing: please make sure that the wrapped script is available under GPL license, as D.org won't host anything else. If not just leave it out and add a README file with download instructions.

Cheers,
--
Stefan Kudwien
www.unleashedmind.com

congrats on trying for a gmail importer..when can we see it as part of a module :)
really longing for this..and a listhandler for Drupal 5.1
any ideas on this guys

hi..
i am a newbie..and dont know how to apply a patch..
pls cld u make it into a module so we can put it into the modules folder and make it work..
thanks

Just found libgmailer, a GPL compliant library:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmail-lite/

Check out Gmailer::fetchBox(GM_CONTACT, $box) where $box can be 'all' and 'search' (and some more), means we could add partial import of contacts. How does that sound?

pls tell us if this part of the module now...it wld be nice to have a gmail importer to invite friends..maybe yahoo and hotmail..will be icing on the invite cake :)

Tracking issue cause I'd LOVE this import functionality

This might be worth considering

1) It's Free
2) Provides full user statistics
3) Easy cut and copy HTML

http://www.palcry.com

Best Regards,

Audai E. Louri

A heads up for anyone thinking of trying palcry.

1 - It is not software you control - Its a service
2 - They have no visible privacy policy (are they harvesting all these addresses for their own use?)
3 - Their TOS -Term Of Service page is missing

Theres a module available for that now : http://drupal.org/project/dcl_importer

My only "problem" with it (it works perfectly) is that I'd like the contacts to be imported as a select list with checkboxes, not in the textarea invite.module provide. The maintainer of the module say this would require changes in invite.module - any chances this might get in?

@FiReaNG3L
Couldn't said module present that checkbox list, and then pass only the selected values to invite? Anyway, this is not the right place to discuss such issues. This one has been solved.

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