I am trying to allow users to import their Hotmail contacts to my site to invite friends. I am looking to write a custom PHP solution, not something like http://openinviter.com/. I tried the Live API, but it only outputs email hashes.
Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? It was super easy to setup on Yahoo! and Gmail, but Hotmail has me floored. I need this to work on PHP 5.3.
分享 I finally went with a work around / solution that requires the user to copy and past the "Print View" of their entire address book from Hotmail. Then I scrape the textarea input for email addresses using a regex statement.
While it is not ideal, it does work and my users don't seem to mind the copying and pasting since it is just one Copy/Paste for the entire address book. So far my users have imported 700 email addresses using this method and I have not received any bug reports or complaints about the work around I used.
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