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Import contact through api?
March 12, 2010, 10:54:54 am
Hi, everyone,

I use Drupal 6.14 and CiviCRM 3.1.3.
I'm thinking if what is the best way to import the contact in the spreadsheet to CiviCRM, using Form API and maybe CiviCRM API. Any advice or thought is welcome. thanks a lot.

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Re: Import contact through api?
March 12, 2010, 11:57:47 am
I have experience of using the CiviCRM API to import contacts, and think this is a good way if you want to accomplish more than the standard import function can offer. Let me know if you would like some code examples.
Erik
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Re: Import contact through api?
March 14, 2010, 10:10:24 am
Erik,

It would be great if you can share your code.
I have spent lots of time studying the api and still don't have an idea about how to do it.
Thanks a lot for your help.

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Re: Import contact through api?
March 14, 2010, 03:52:19 pm
Hi Eric,

I'd be really keen to see your code samples. There doesn't appear to be an import api function as such so I presume you use a mixture of checks plus contact_add / update.

If you're feeling really keen you could blog it - as to why you use the API & how.....
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Re: Import contact through api?
March 15, 2010, 12:48:59 am
I will blog about it for De Goede Woning project. I know my way around a lot better now than I did when I wrote my earlier imports......there is still lots of room for improvement :-). I have put the code of my previous conversion on the wiki:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Using+CiviCRM+APIs+-+Code+Snippets#UsingCiviCRMAPIs-CodeSnippets-ExampleofconversionusingAPI%27s%28contact%2Cgroup%2Ctag%2Clocation%2Crelationship%29
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