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Hello,

I wanted to get a contact using his/her e-mail.

$partner=civicrm_api("Contact","getsingle", array ('version' =>'3', 'email' => $row['partner_email']));

So far the good, if only it would work with additional E-Mail Addresses. So it won't find a contact if $row['partner_email'] isn't the primary E-Mail.

What parameter am I misusing / missing here?

Best wishes
 Malte

Thanks Xavier, I need to look into chaining in the future.

For the time being I solved it this way, which pretty much follows your notion of having to use Email instead of Contact. Additionally I found out that you get in trouble if an E-mail is linked with multiple contacts as the contacts have been marked as deleted but haven't been deleted for good.

$partner=civicrm_api("Contact","getsingle", array ('version' =>'3', 'email' => $row['dance_partner_email']));
$partner_contact_id = 0;
if($partner['is_error'] == 0) {
   $partner_contact_id = $partner['contact_id'];
} else {
   // check if we have the E-Mail elsewhere
   $partner_emails=civicrm_api("Email","get", array ('version' =>'3', 'email' => $row['dance_partner_email']));
   if($partner_emails['is_error'] == 0) {
           $partner_email = end($partner_emails['values']);
           $partner_contact_id = $partner_email['contact_id'];
      $partner=civicrm_api("Contact","getsingle", array ('version' =>'3', 'contact_id' => $partner_contact_id));
   }
}