Hi users,

I've enjoyed using roundcube for over a year now, and it's been a great tool. If you're like me, with 1000+ contacts, adding contacts manually to an address book was not something I was up for.

So here's a quick patch I've made, to handle .csv uploads, and adding contacts to the database

This patch is based on 0.1rc1 not the newer 0.2 version (released Nov/07). I cannot guarantee it'll work on the new version.

The patch creates a new directory csv_upload in the root of the RC installation - I know this is not common practice, but it makes updating the rest of the program much easier.

I noticed a recent post on here for uploading .csv files server-side and doing one-off address book updates, but here's a glorified version, which will do the following:

Handles file upload
Checks columns for correct data
Adds NEW contacts to the database
Old (already inserted) contacts are ignored
Interface is all via one additional link on the 'address book' page

Todo:

Use RC-approved methods of including files
Change add-on's folder structure
Secure the uploading of .csv files. Temp files are currently held one at a time, at $_server_root/imported.csv
Link to the uploading interface via one of the buttons, as opposed to a static link

Download the patch at http://www.rmacd.com/downloads/howto/rc-csv/roundcube-csv.patch
Download .tar.gz http://www.rmacd.com/downloads/howto/rc-csv/roundcubemail-0.1-rc1-CSV.tar.gz
Follow the installation info at http://www.rmacd.com/downloads/howto/add-csv-to-roundcube.php

If anyone would like to contribute to this little add-on, please let me know.

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Ronald MacDonald
http://www.rmacd.com/
0777 235 1655