Sort my contacts alphabetic using cURL

Question

I'm receiving all of my contacts on Google Contacts using this method:

session_start();

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

$data = array(
    'accountType' => 'GOOGLE',
    'Email' => 'email',
    'Passwd' => 'password',
    'source' => 'sourcetest',
    'service' => 'cp'
);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);


$responses = explode("\n", curl_exec($ch));
$_SESSION['auth'] = str_replace('Auth=', '', $responses[2]);
$_SESSION['email'] = 'email';



$url = 'https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full';
$url .= '?group=http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/groups/'.$_SESSION['email'].'/base/6';
$url .= '&max-results=500&alt=json';

$ch = curl_init($url);

$header[] = 'Authorization: GoogleLogin auth='.$_SESSION['auth'];
$header[] = 'GData-Version: 3.0';

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);



/** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **/



# CONTROL
if(isset($response_as_array['feed']) AND isset($response_as_array['feed']['entry'])) {

    # TABLE
    echo '<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">';
    echo '<tr>';
        echo '<td align="left" class="padding-td" width="180">';
            echo '<b>Namn</b>';
        echo '</td>';

        echo '<td align="left" class="padding-td">';
            echo '<b>Telefon-nummer</b>';
        echo '</td>';
    echo '</tr>';


    # LOOP
    foreach($response_as_array['feed']['entry'] AS $i => $entry) {

        # CONTROL: Hide my name
        if(utf8_decode($entry['gd$name']['gd$fullName']['$t']) != 'Erik Edgren') {

            echo '<tr>';
                echo '<td align="left" class="padding-td">';
                    echo utf8_decode($entry['gd$name']['gd$fullName']['$t']);
                echo '</td>';

                echo '<td align="left" class="padding-td">';
                    echo isset($entry['gd$phoneNumber'][0]) ? $entry['gd$phoneNumber'][0]['$t'] : '';
                echo '</td>';
            echo '</tr>';

        }

    }


    echo '</table>';

}

It works fine but it's not sorting the contacts alphabetically. How can I do this?

Thanks in advance.

m4t1t0 · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-07T19:21:56.820

1

I assume that you have an array in $response_as_array['feed']['entry'] which have all your contacts, then you can use:

usort($response_as_array['feed']['entry'], function($a, $b) { 
    return strcmp($a['gd$name']['gd$fullName']['$t'], $b['gd$name']['gd$fullName']['$t']);
});

edited Jan 07 '13 at 19:21

answered Jan 07 '13 at 18:43

m4t1t0

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Thanks but I don't know how exactly I'm going to use that. The code I'm showing in my question is the full code for the function I currently using. How do put this code with mine so it sorts alphabetically? – Airikr Jan 07 '13 at 18:51
I have edited my answer, but you need to check if the code is valid. I don't know the array structure and perhaps, you can use other values to do the comparison better. – m4t1t0 Jan 07 '13 at 19:22
I have one problem with your solution though. I'm using PHP 5.3 on my WAMP but my web host are using PHP 5.2.17. How can I use your solution in this version of PHP? – Airikr Jan 07 '13 at 21:32
With PHP 5.2 you can not use anonymous functions, you need to declare the function with a name and then call your function in usort. Check the usort manual for more info. – m4t1t0 Jan 07 '13 at 21:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '13 at 18:37

You could try asort(): http://php.net/manual/en/function.asort.php

You may have to re-arrange the data from Google to do this temporarily.

To be honest I would have imagined Google to provide some additional conditions you could use to get them to sort it for you. Which would be appended to the request URL.

Sort my contacts alphabetic using cURL

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