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Mainly to remove comma in Full name
I have today successfully edited all my contacts (~1800) using easy-to-edit php code.
I had a similar problem. Before Google rolled out the advanced contact system (3.0), with separated fields for First ; Middle ; Lastnames, I used to record my contacts like that:
Doe, John
(ie. Last ; comma ; John).
It went well until they rolled out the 3.0 Gdata system, which did not understood the comma at all, and took Doe as firstname, and John as last.
Manual edit was out of question, so I looked a way to do that cleanly. Export/Import using CSV BREAKS THE LINK TO ALL YOUR OTHER APPLICATIONS (including Picasa), since you basically delete / create new contacts.
Using the Zend Framework which provides a very easy access to the Google API, I was able to edit each contact in quick and dirty batch mode. I installed the Zend library plus 2 custom scripts on a webserver with PHP 5.0 and ran it.
I used a 2-step protocol:
- collect modifications to i
