PHP: Script to extract one’s contacts from email (Gmail, Yahoo,Hotmail,AOL…) and send invites – OpenInviter to go!

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos in Coding, Internet Life, PHP, Web Buzzz

OpenInviter -email extractor php script-logo

You’ll find many scripts to extract email contacts, but many of these are either commercial or just given as apis. For the last case, it’s good to extract contacts from an email using an external server, because that’ll help reduce the server load, but what if the website providing that service goes down? Not good.

So here’s a better solution: OpenInviter^TM.

OpenInviter is a precious tool for those who want to get viral traffic to their websites. This technique has been widely used by most social networks, such as FaceBook, Twitter, Hi5… The best part about OpenInviter is that it supports a lot of email providers and social networks. Yup! You’ve heard it well, you can even send invites to friends from social networks as private/direct messages; it works on your own server, meaning that you’ll have a functional invite system even when all other websites are down.

Go get it quickly while it’s warm and free: http://openinviter.com/