PHP code example of developerabod / laravel-contact-exporter

    
        
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

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developerabod / laravel-contact-exporter example snippets

return [

    'table' => 'users', // Your database table name

    'columns' => [
        'first_name'   => 'first_name',  // The column name in your table
        'last_name'    => null,           // null = disabled by default
        'middle_name'  => null,

        'phone_mobile' => 'phone',        // Primary mobile number — ted file (e.g. contacts.csv)
    'append_count'     => true, // If true: appends total contact count to filename, Example:contacts_250.vcf
    'append_date'      => false, // If true: appends export date to filename Example: contacts_2026-02-22.vcf
    'skip_empty_phone' => true, 
    'normalize_phone'  => true,
    'charset_utf8'     => true, // Enables UTF-8 encoding to support arabic
    'chunk_size'       => 500,  // Chunk size for optimized processing

];

use VCard;

public function export()
{
    return VCard::download();
    // Output: contacts_250.vcf
}

return VCard::withLastName()->download();

return VCard::withEmail()->download();

return VCard::withLastName()->withEmail()->download();

return VCard::from('users')->download();

return VCard::map([
    'first_name'   => 'name',
    'phone_mobile' => 'mobile_number',
])->download();

return VCard::where(['active' => 1])->download();

// Multiple conditions
return VCard::where(['active' => 1, 'country' => 'SA'])->download();

// All records
return VCard::fromQuery(Contact::query())->download();

// Using an existing scope on the model
return VCard::fromQuery(Contact::active())->download();

// With custom constraints
return VCard::fromQuery(
    Contact::where('country', 'SA')->orderBy('first_name')
)->download();

return VCard::fromQuery(
    DB::table('contacts')->where('active', 1)
)->download();

return VCard::download('company_employees');
// Output: company_employees_150.vcf

return VCard::fromQuery(Contact::active())
    ->map([
        'first_name'   => 'fname',
        'last_name'    => 'lname',
        'phone_mobile' => 'mobile',
        'phone_work'   => 'work_phone',
        'email'        => 'email',
    ])
    ->withLastName()
    ->withEmail()
    ->filename('contacts_export')
    ->chunkSize(1000)
    ->download();

bash
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=vcard-exporter-config