iOS get a phone number based on name of user from iphone address book

[ranjeet]

i am totally new to this topic and searched on this but still very confused please help i need to get a phone number from user's address book based on the name user entered in a text field ....

please provide any tutorial based on this (if possible)

 

[saving107]

more details, please.

what Use's address book and what text field?

 

[ranjeet]

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i mean in an app. user types a name in textField and by clicking on find button if there is any entry matched to that name in user's contacts list then the corresponding numbers will be displayed in a label

 

[robbieduncan]

The code in the first post in this thread should give you a good pointer. With the documentation and that I cannot see why you cannot do what you want.

 

[KoolStar]

This lets you search for a person by name. It will then load the person into a PersonView on whether or not they exist. You can specify what items you see or you can get just a specific property back. Don't forget that phone numbers a a multivalueref that will return a CFArray.

-(void)showPersonViewController
{
    // Fetch the address book 
    ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
    // Search for the person named "Appleseed" in the address book
    NSArray *people = (NSArray *)ABAddressBookCopyPeopleWithName(addressBook, CFSTR("Appleseed"));
    // Display "Appleseed" information if found in the address book 
    if ((people != nil) && [people count])
    {
        ABRecordRef person = (ABRecordRef)[people objectAtIndex:0];
        ABPersonViewController *picker = [[[ABPersonViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
        picker.personViewDelegate = self;
        picker.displayedPerson = person;
        // Allow users to edit the person’s information
        picker.allowsEditing = YES;
        [self.navigationController pushViewController:picker animated:YES];
    }
    else 
    {
        // Show an alert if "Appleseed" is not in Contacts
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error" 
                                                        message:@"Could not find Appleseed in the Contacts application" 
                                                       delegate:nil 
                                              cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" 
                                              otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [alert show];
        [alert release];
    }
    
    [people release];
    CFRelease(addressBook);
}

 

[ranjeet]

thank you

This lets you search for a person by name. It will then load the person into a PersonView on whether or not they exist. You can specify what items you see or you can get just a specific property back. Don't forget that phone numbers a a multivalueref that will return a CFArray.

-(void)showPersonViewController
{
    // Fetch the address book 
    ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreate();
    // Search for the person named "Appleseed" in the address book
    NSArray *people = (NSArray *)ABAddressBookCopyPeopleWithName(addressBook, CFSTR("Appleseed"));
    // Display "Appleseed" information if found in the address book 
    if ((people != nil) && [people count])
    {
        ABRecordRef person = (ABRecordRef)[people objectAtIndex:0];
        ABPersonViewController *picker = [[[ABPersonViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
        picker.personViewDelegate = self;
        picker.displayedPerson = person;
        // Allow users to edit the person’s information
        picker.allowsEditing = YES;
        [self.navigationController pushViewController:picker animated:YES];
    }
    else 
    {
        // Show an alert if "Appleseed" is not in Contacts
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error" 
                                                        message:@"Could not find Appleseed in the Contacts application" 
                                                       delegate:nil 
                                              cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" 
                                              otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [alert show];
        [alert release];
    }
    
    [people release];
    CFRelease(addressBook);
}

thank you it really helped....