You can always create a Vcard on your own or you can use an generator.
Creating a Vcard is not hard, you will only need to replace the following code with your information and save it into a .vcf file (text file, change extension).
BEGIN:VCARD FN:Mr. John P. Smith, Jr. TITLE:General Manager ORG:XYZ Corp.;North American Division;Manufacturing ADR;POSTAL;WORK:;;P.O. Box 10010;AnyCity;AnyState;00000;U.S.A. LABEL;POSTAL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:P.O. Box 10010=0D=0A= Anywhere, TN 37849=0D=0A= U.S.A. ADR;PARCEL;WORK:;133 Anywhere St.;Suite 360;AnyCity;AnyState;00000;U.S.A. LABEL;POSTAL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:133 Anywhere St.=0D=0A= Anywhere, TN 37849=0D=0A= U.S.A. TEL;Work;VOICE;MESG;PREF:+1-234-456-7891 x56473 TEL;Home:+1-234-456-7891 TEL;Pager:+1-234-456-7891 TEL;Cell:+1-234-456-7891 TEL;Modem;FAX:+1-234-456-7891,,*3 EMAIL;Internet:webmaster@anywhere.com URL:http://www.anywhere.com/mrh.vcf UID:http://www.anywhere.com/mrh.vcf TZ:-0500 BDAY:1997-11-29 REV:20080917T102319 VERSION:2.1 END:VCARD
Or you can use a Vcard generator and there inst no other one betther than this one: http://www.vicintl.com/vcf/
I use a lot of Vcards to send to friends, clients, fellow developers, etc. It’s easier and saves automaticly on email clients like Outlook.
Have fun.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Nice article! I found it very useful! But I also needed to add a image to my vCard file. You can find out how I did it here: http://smartdev.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/how-to-generate-a-vcard-file/
April 7th, 2009 at 11:30 AM
When I created I haven’t heard about photo, so your Vcard article is pretty good. Thanks for the info.
July 4th, 2009 at 12:37 PM
please what if i need to send the vcard as SMS to a phone, how do i go about it.
I can send regular text SMS from my PHP website to phone but i need to be able to send Vcards also.
Thanks in advance for your response
July 6th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
I must admit that I have never done this before, but I have seen some stuff working. For instance if you have a website that have a Vcard, some smart phones use the Vcard fields to be able to allow a user to click and call or click and send an email, etc.
Anyway, I have checked some information and by what I have learned, looks like the construction of the VCard is just like any other one, but the phone must support VCard reading. I guess every smart phone, windows based, Blackberry or Google will be able to read that.
Anyway, check this forum post, it does have some clues: http://betalabs.nokia.com/forum/topic/1201
July 6th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Just one thing, I have forgot that you where talking about a SMS. I’m not sure that you can use a SMS for that, but my suggestion would be to you send a link through a SMS where it would automatically generate a VCard for the user to read or download.
October 31st, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Just completed developing my online vCard generator. It was a very easy job. đ
You can check it out here:
http://vcardmaker.com/
Full vCard specs here:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2426
October 31st, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Great work. Clean and it will create a vCard with all data necessary. đ
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