Comments on: Contact management web application?

Question: Contact management web application?

monju_bosatsu — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:27:12 -0800

Can anybody recommend a good, free, preferably open source php-mysql contact management web application I can install on my own server?

By: spock

spock — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:20:01 -0800

To provide an accurate answer, we probably should know the operating system of your server (windows, linux, os x).

By: spock

spock — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:27:21 -0800

No personal experience with this one, but it appears to be Highly Rated: Brim- contacts:

Description: Webbased contact management including vCard and opera import/export functionality and the ability to share your contacts with others. The application also has support for bookmarks, a calendar, news feeds, notes, tasks, passwords management and more. In short: A webbased Personal Information Manager (PIM)

By: spock

spock — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:28:00 -0800

Forgot to note that the above app works on Windows OR Linux.

By: purephase

purephase — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:30:54 -0800

I've never run it myself, but I've heard good things about Mambo.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:58:12 -0800

Contact, not content.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:00:39 -0800

Also, would LDAP fit the bill here? There are plenty of clients that can talk to it and it's pretty well future-proofed (compared to simply supporting current closed standards).

By: purephase

purephase — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:03:54 -0800

Sorry, ignore my comment. I misread your question.

By: misterbrandt

misterbrandt — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:19:51 -0800

yerfatma --
do you have any links to a good UI for a local LDAP server like this? I am attracted to LDAP (conceptually) for my own contact management, but googling LDAP gives lots of stuff not-what-i-want. Mostly university or corporate level stuff.

good question; i will be watching this thread...

By: dhammala

dhammala — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:03:54 -0800

if you have not looked at sugar yet, you are missing out..

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:10:49 -0800

Sugar is pretty impressive, but significantly over-featured for what I need. If anybody is still watching this thread, how do you keep a centrally-maintained list of your contacts?

By: misterbrandt

misterbrandt — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:36:36 -0800

monju -- I too was hoping for an answer from this thread. My contacts are currently a mess -- mostly in an old Outlook PST, but I haven't used in outlook in over a year. I have been looking (as have you) for a web-based solution I can hsot on my own web server (or home server), but no luck so far.

i was about 2 days into building my own php/mysql thing for this, but i got overwhelmed by my own slickness, trying to make all the addresses and emails and telephone #s relational.

As an interim option, i have been wondering about a dumb-simple password-protected page on my server, with everyone's info in tabular format. Using firefox, I can locate anyone with find-as-you-type, and for browsers other than IE you can extensively restyle tabular data to look like rolodex cards or whatever (I have a testpage for this, but it is not on a live server at the moment). Then, a simple PHP script to open the page for editing (load page content into a textile-aware[so that it is easy to deal with the table code soup] textarea) or not, for viewing.

It will be easy to parse this out into a database whenever a good solution comes along.

Of course, I haven't built it yet. So I keep going back and firing up outlook when I need somebody's address. Or i email them and ask them for it. :)

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:01:45 -0800

I've scrapped the idea of trying a DIY solution, and instead I'm going to commit to using Plaxo, at least for now. Credit goes to this old AskMe thread.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 07:02:24 -0800

a good UI for a local LDAP server like this

I dunno how good it is (not having used it myself), but Thunderbird (and other email applications) can be used as a front-end.

By: dhammala

dhammala — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:50:15 -0800

I use my Palm and keep it in sync with my desktop. :)