Let me be the first to say that this phonebook is AWESOME!!!!!!

I've seen the "old" version and have benefited from the new and the transformation has been great! The page is very fast and easy to use. Everyone that I've shown it to at work has fallen in love with it straight away! I had the opportunity to show it to someone that is an ASP programmer and they were VERY impressed with the functionality, size of the code and the fact that all the bits (OS, MySQl, PHP) were free!!! Keep up the good work Bill!

If you get the following error try appending the local.inc that comes with phonebook.php3 to your global local.inc that came with phplib.

Fatal error: Phonebook_Session is not a class in page.inc on line 18

I have releasled a new version of phonebook.php3. I found that I was using an old version of phplib and it didn't work with the newest 7.2. I fixed that problem and also found some spelling mistakes, database created in CAPS but referenced in lowercase, and a left over include that didn't exist anymore.

So this should be a much cleaner version. If you emailed me about not being able to get into the admin interface this version should work for you.

I added a little more to the README which should help people installing.

Version 1.2 is available now..

List of Changes

• Seperate Admin screen (deals better with phplib)
• Import/Export, if xlHTML is installed it will even do excel imports
• support for international phone numbers

Still ToDO:

• Add in custom views
• More error checking :-)

• Phonebook 1.2 by Bill Peck Thursday 29th of June 2000 07:49:28 AM EST

  The Schema file (phonebook.sql) was missing the initial create database phonebook; use phonebook;. This has been fixed now.

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Has anyone tested this with php4? I've installed in on two boxes and am having different issues on each. Any help would be appreciated.

• Phonebook.php3 by Bill Peck Tuesday 15th of August 2000 10:12:55 AM EST

  I have installed it with php4. What kind of issues are you having?

  I'm thinking that the next release will include a version of phplib since that seems to be where most people are having problems..

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  • Phonebook.php3 by Joe Bloggs Sunday 20th of August 2000 11:12:07 AM EST

    ...that would be good or even a primer on installing phplib would be great.  phplib's documentation isn't great and in the end i just can't get it to work.
    
    which is quite frustrating, cause i really wanted to use phonebook.php3's functionality.

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Changes :

+ Included a snapshot of phplib, this also removed the requirement to edit php.ini
+ Fixed a duplicate session id bug in phoneadmin and phonebook_newuser.

I love this phonebook! I started to set it up on our intranet and got busy with some other projects. Now I'm back to working on this. The problem is, in the meantime some databases were set up on our system for some other functions on our intranet (ok I'm *trying* desperately to justify using Microsoft UGH) and it turns out that unless I totally duplicate some stuff I will have to use access as my backend database. Can I get a copy of the old program? Or instructions to get the current version working with access?

This will not need to odbc to another database from access, the data is within access itself. Thanks a lot!

• Phonebook.php by Bill Peck Monday 09th of July 2001 03:41:40 PM EST

  The old program only used access to administor the data. The data was actually on a sybase database. Even if it did I didn't keep a copy of it.. Sorry..

  What about using ODBC to get to the data?

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  • Phonebook.php by Samantha Davis Thursday 19th of July 2001 12:38:00 PM EST

    I dont know how to set up ODBC from this Linux box to the NT server that the access database is on :(

    I guess I can try to install PHP on the NT webserver, do you think the phonebook program will still work if I do that? I could pay you to do any special modifications that would need to be done :)

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I have been trying to get this to work for some time and really dig the way it looks, but am not so good with php. More comments in the files would help for us dummies. I know documentation is a big time waste for developers, I'm guilty of this myself, but I think this project rocks! I get the phonebook to work, but the admin page gives this:

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: phonebook in /home/httpd/phplib/ct_sql.inc on line 32

This probably has something to do with phplib, but don't know what?

This project has potential of being very popular and wish I could contribute, but am new to php.

Thanks steve

• Phonebook.php by Bill Peck Sunday 07th of October 2001 09:00:45 AM EST

  Thanks for the praise but I'm afraid that this project has been back burnered. I don't work for the company that I wrote it for anymore and I don't have a need to use this on my own so its been neglected..

  If anyone would like to take over this project and make it easier to install then go for it!

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  • Phonebook.php by Marco Wednesday 12th of December 2001 09:08:14 PM EST

    Hello Bill,
    
    I like this neat software and like the others I thank you for taking the time to respond to our issues. I downloaded the software and installed it on my Linux box. It is working but I get this error on the Admin Page:
    
    MySQL Error: 1062 (Duplicate entry '956dfbc26f526b98e013221397d884fd-Phonebook_Session' for key 1)
    Session halted.
    
    I have struggled with it without any success. It seems like I read on the comments page that you have release version 1.2.1 that fixed a "Duplicate Key" issue. I don't seem to find this version anywhere. 
    
    Could you provide me with any insights?
    
    Thank you again for your time
    Sincerely,
    Marco

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Hi bill,

I hope this reaches you. Your Phone Book script looks exactly like what our organization needs. I downloaded the two phps files and the tgz file from your page. After looking at the readme, it seems I need a file phonebook.sql to create the database tables in mysql. However I cannot find this file. The tgz file only contains one file named phonebook with no extension. I’m not sure what to do with this file. I opened it with wordpad and it looks like several files all bunched together. Im sure this is some sort of unix thing im not aware of. I'm used to just uploading the php files ect., then running a .sql file in phpmyadmin to create the tables. Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated. jwhite@[nospam]sii.edu

• Phonebook.php by James White Thursday 08th of July 2004 06:01:31 PM EST

  Ok, got the file figured out. The file with no extension is appearantly a .tar file. I got it all extracted and uploaded. I got my DB and tables created. I edited local.inc with my DB info. However when I point my browser to phonebook.php I get the following error:

  Fatal error: Cannot redeclare gc() in /home/iiacom/public_html/phonebook/phplib/session.inc on line 457

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  • Phonebook.php by Bill Peck Sunday 11th of July 2004 09:00:34 AM EST

    Wow.. I haven't used this program in years. I'm glad it might be useful for you but it may be more trouble than its worth now.

    The main problem is that the newest php has its own session support and doesn't seem to work very well with phplib.

    I can get the page to come up but I can't authenticate into the system. Seems to be forgetting the $username and $password variables.

    I just don't have the time right now to really investigate this. I think it would require a rewrite to use php's internal session support.

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