Social Network Inviter
Social Network Inviter

The Benefits

  • Go BEYOND emails! Boost genuine traffic to your site by going beyond email referrals and utilizing the attention given to social network messages.
  • Leverage on your website visitor's large social network, which typically number from tens to hundreds.
  • Easy to use. Displays name and thumbnail image of contact.
  • Now with Captcha support!

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How it works...

Your visitors simply provide their login email address and password and our script fetches a list of contacts into an array/list. Your application can then choose to send native MySpace/Friendster/Hi5/Orkut messages to these contacts. As only actual social network messages are sent, not emails, you get more attention of the contacts themselves! (Note: Orkut messages are normally sent by Orkut as Gmail messages)

We support both the following features

  • Retrieve contacts' name, id and thumbnail image
  • Private social network messages
  • Shoutouts (where available)
  • Bulletin posting (where available)

Easy Integration for PHP, .NET, Java

Get up and running in just 5 minutes! See how. Available for PHP, .NET and Java. Well-thought architecture ensures you are able support new webmails without changing a single line of your code.

We've also included a "Unified Inviter Component" for the PHP version, making it much easier for you to integrate it into any PHP applications. All you need to do is

  1. Customize the message that you will be sending
  2. Optionally override the existing mail sending function (which uses PHP's mail() function to send emails by default)
  3. Call a single PHP function - "oz_render_inviter()" to render the component in your application.

 

Ready Integration with Third Party Apps!

Our PHP library supports the following third party apps through plugins/mods bundled with the distribution.

  • PhpFox 1.5/1.6
  • VBulletin
  • SocialEngine 3.x
  • Dolphin 6.1x
  • Elgg 1.1
  • And more coming!

Growing list of available mods/plugins available here.

 

Best Features & Support

Our list of supported social networks is growing by the day. Support for new social networks is provided free of charge in our periodic updates.

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Social networks supported (depending on bundle)

  • Facebook (via Facebook Connect) (new!)
  • MySpace
  • Hi5
  • Friendster
  • Orkut
  • Xing
  • BlackPlanet
  • Bebo
  • MeinVZ (new!)
  • Hyves (new!)
  • Twitter (new!)

See Also...

Features & Benefits

  • Out of the box integration!
    We support PhpFox, VBulletin, SocialEngine, and more! Growing list of available mods/plugins available here.

  • Secure
    The only traffic going through the library is that between your server and the social network servers. We do not intercept or capture any of your traffic.

  • Import contacts with contact ID, name, and thumbnail image url
    Yes, image thumbnails included.

  • Send Personalized messages AND shoutouts/bulletin posts
    We support both, right out of the box.

  • Available for PHP (4 & 5), .NET framework and Java.
    It's your choice, and its PHP 5 compatible as well.

  • Easy to use and integrate.
    Get up and running in just 5 minutes!

  • Sound architecture
    Our codes are designed based on OOP principles, with detailed error messages enabling you to know the difference between server failures, or bad user name / password.

  • Multiple Local IP Address Support
    If your server runs on multiple IP addresses, our code allows you to dynamically bind to different IP addresses on your local network (PHP and Java only for now)

  • Documentation & sample code provided
    Manual and sample code is provided to allow you to have a jumpstart at integrating

  • Supports unicode (non-English) names
    We support international languages, including Japanese MySpace sites, etc.

  • Fast, optimized & network-efficient code.
    Return results quickly, and reduce your server bandwidth usage. We make use of compressed HTTP and Keep-Alives to give you the fastest response possible.

  • Support captcha challenges
    Send messages where others cannot. No other competitor supports this feature.

  • And not forgetting
    • Proven technology, ideal for web hosted sites
    • Our commitment to excellent support
    • Frequent updates !

 

 

System Requirements

Platform Requirements What is included
PHP
  • PHP 4.3 or higher
  • cURL 7.1 or higher (7.10 or higher required for compression support)
  • Download this PHP script to determine if your server supports the cURL with OpenSSL!
Core library scripts, sample codes, documentation
.NET Core library DLLs, sample codes, documentation
Java
  • JDK 1.4.2 or higher
Core library JARs, sample codes, documentation

 

Sample Codes

PHP
<?php
//WARNING! This sample sends messages to all contacts

include_once("abimporter/is_friendster.php");
include_once("abimporter/is_myspace.php");
include_once("abimporter/is_hi5.php");

$email = "myloginemail@somewhere.com";
$pass = "myloginpassword";
$subject = "This is the subject of the message";
$message = "This is the message body";
$obj = new FriendsterInviter;
//$obj = new MySpaceInviter
//$obj = new Hi5Inviter
//$obj = new OrkutInviter

//Perform login. Note that login is required before fetching 
//contacts and before sending messages

$res = $obj->login($email,$pass);
if ($res==_ABI_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED) {
	echo 'Bad user name or password';
}
else if ($res==_ABI_FAILED) {
	echo 'Server error';
}
else if ($res==_ABI_SUCCESS) {

	//Logged in! 
	//Fetch up to 1000 contacts, or 30 pages worth of contacts,
	//whichever comes first
	
	$contactlist = $obj->fetchContacts(1000,30);

	$n = count($contactlist);
	for ($i=0; $iname;
	 	$imgurl = $contact->imgurl;
	 	$uid = $contact->uid;
	 	
	 	//$name is the contact name
	 	//$imgurl is the url to the thumbnail image
	 	//$uid is the contact id

		//Send message to contact
	 	echo "Sending message to $uid
\r\n"; $obj->sendMessage($uid,$subject,$message); } //Thees methods may or may not be available, depending on Invite sender $obj->postMessage($subject,$message); $obj->postShoutout("Short message test"); } else { $errmsg='Error. Unknown result.'; } ?>