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OpenInviter is an open source free import contact script to get email contacts of the particular user from almost all major email service providers like aol, gmail, yahoo mail, msn hotmail etc. The script is written in PHP and can be downloaded from here.

The pre-requirements are common but important. The server will need to have PHP5 installed with DOMDocument support and either cURL or WGET. For more information regarding Curl and enabling it for your purpose you can check out this tip or the manual page.

After enabling curl, the couple of changes are required for using openiviter at your project or need. We first need to remove postinstall.php present in the downloaded openinviter directory. The next is making changes on the config.php. If you open config.php, you may see an array named "openinviter_settings" having some information regarding the person who has downloaded openinviter from the site. For our concern the important indices are :

• cookie_path
• plugins_cache_time

Now it is well set for our use, we just need to include the particular openinviter class and start working with its instance.
For creating the instance, we can use the following code:

require_once( 'openinviter/openinviter.php');//This may vary. e.g. we can first 
get the current

//working directory path and then include the
//openinviter class as it creates problem
// sometimes logging error messages.                                                   
// For that case we can use php function  getcwd(), 
//  $current_directory = getcwd();      
//    require_once( $current_directory.'\your_path\openinviter\openinviter.php');