OpenInviter: Open Source Contact Importer (From E-mail Providers, Social Networks..)

8 Responses for "OpenInviter: Open Source Contact Importer (From E-mail Providers, Social Networks..)"

1. Brian November 12th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

   Too bad you have to register in order to download anything. I don’t consider anything “free” or “open source” if I have to provide my phone number in order to access it. Oh well… I’ll keep an eye on the project.

2. Someone November 13th, 2008 at 4:20 am

   Free means no price.
   Open source means open source.

   Some registration form does not have anything to do with these two.
   Brian don’t be a child

3. Someone November 15th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

   Brian, good news… There’s no phone number anymore

4. Open Source Contact Importer/Inviter | ChaseSagum.com November 21st, 2008 at 10:01 am

   [...] something like that on your own social site? Maybe on your blog or maybe your own social network? OpenInviter is an open source php class written in PHP5 that does just that. It allows users to import contacts [...]

5. dalin November 21st, 2008 at 9:33 pm

   I did some research and this whole thing looks extremely sketchy. They are billing themselves as “Open Source” but there isn’t a license to be found anywhere in the code or on their site. The only thing that is really open about this that you can see the code and report bugs. There’s no code repository or anything. You need to give over the details of your first born to signup for the service. The demo doesn’t work. All data is passed over http, not https. And most alarming of all, if you turn remote debugging on, and there is an error after the contacts have been retreived, all that contact data is sent back to http://debug.openinviter.com/debug/remote_debugger.php. Yikes!

   Furthermore the Drupal module isn’t really an API that you could integrate with your other Drupal modules, it is a black box that you can use to send a static message (“You are invited to http://example.com“) to your contacts.

   The Drupal module space doesn’t need any more half-assed modules like this. If they can manage to get these issues sorted out then the way to go would be to instead develop an import engine for Contact Importer

6. Anatol December 17th, 2008 at 11:22 am

   I found this :
   http://chasesagum.com/open-source-contact-importerinviter#comment-16051

   Openinviter is storing others contact information and passwords ?

7. Rajsuryaraj December 24th, 2008 at 2:09 am

   Great, Thanks. Its more helpful for me.

8. Andrew January 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 am

   Here is another script :
   http://www.tellafriendmaster.com