Plaxo (Address Book Access Widget or contact importer) is an online address book and social networking service.The Plaxo is a simple-to-implement code of JavaScript which you can easily embed on your web page. plaxo official site is <a href="http://plaxo.com" target="blank"> plaxo.com </a>
The Widget provides facility to import contacts from multiple address books like Gmail, Yahoo, American Online, Outlook Express , Plaxo , etc…
Here i provides step which you will follow and get appropiate result
1. Create a page on your site with the following HTML code and save page (like plaxocontacer.html).
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.plaxo.com/ab_chooser/abc_comm.jsdyn"></script>
</head>
<body> </body>
</html>
2. The page in which you want address book(list of contact) widget than you just add following HTML code inside the HEAD tag
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.plaxo.com/css/m/js/util.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.plaxo.com/css/m/js/basic.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.plaxo.com/css/m/js/abc_launcher.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!—
function onABCommComplete() {
// OPTIONAL: do something here after the new data has been populated in your text area
}
//—></script>
3. You must give the id of textarea in which you want to place names and e-mail addresses
e.g. <textarea id="recipient_list" name="recipients"> </textarea>.
4. Add a button to your page to launch the address book access widget
– It will place your chosen contact to textarea which has id as recipient_list.
– Once you have filled in the details, add the resulting code to your page to create the button that will launch the widget. You can place your own button image and onclick you call function as showPlaxoABChooser().
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="showPlaxoABChooser(‘FILL_ME_IN’, ‘FILL_ME_IN’); return false">
<img src="http://www.plaxo.com/images/abc/buttons/add_button.gif" alt="Add from my address book" />
</a>
- Now you see the result which you expect. I think this may help you to integrate address book successfully. If you have any query or suggesstion than post here as comment.
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