MS Graph php create contacts

Question

I have set the MS Azure API permissions of contacts.read.write but when executing the following code I get this message:

Uncaught GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException: Client error: POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/contacts resulted in a 400 Bad Request response: { "error": { "code": "Request_BadRequest", "message": "A value without a type name was found and no expecte (truncated...) in C:\Program Files\Ampps\www\weedo\weedo2\content\libraries\MicrosoftGraph\vendor\guzzlehttp\guzzle\src\Exception\RequestException.php:113

My post code:

$graph = new Graph();
        $graph
          ->setBaseUrl("https://graph.microsoft.com/")
          ->setApiVersion("beta")
          ->setAccessToken($this->accessToken);
        $data = array(
            "GivenName" => "Test",
            "Surname" => "account",
            "EmailAddresses" => array(
                array(
                    "Address" => "testaccount@mail.com",
                    "Name" => "Mail Name"
                )
            )
        );
        
  
        $user = $graph->createRequest("POST", "/contacts")
                    ->addHeaders(array("Content-Type" => "application/json"))
                    ->setReturnType(Model\User::class)
                    ->attachBody($data)
                    ->setTimeout("1000")
                    ->execute();

I believe I followed these pages correctly, but the examples are not all given for PHP so I'm not sure where to go from here: https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-php https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-contacts?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

I also wrapped the $data parameter in a json_encode just for testing, but no luck. Where to go? What to do?

EDIT: So as seems i was confused with organizational contacts (which are obtained by /contacts) and personal contacts (which are obtained by /me/contacts). Now it is not (yet) supported to create organizational contacts, which i find rediculous but for some reason i'm not allowed to create contacts on application based either. any thoughts / ideas on this?

Answer 1

You are right, currently, there is no Microsoft Graph API for creating organizational contacts, only list and get method provided. When I tried to create a new one, I got this error:

This issue also has been confirmed by a Microsoft engineer here.

So the only 2 ways I know to add organizational contacts is on Microsoft 365 admin Center =>Users => Contacts blade to add manually:

Add my self as a org contat and I can get the new record from /contacts calling:

The second way is using the PowerShell command:New-MailContact to do this:

All of these 2 ways I have tested on my side and all works for me.

UPDATE:

If you are looking for some sample code about adding a user's personal contacts by an Azure AD application, just try code below:

use Microsoft\Graph\Graph;
use Microsoft\Graph\Http\GraphRequest;

$tenantId= '<your tenant name/ID>';
$clientId = '<azure ad app id>';
$clientSecret ='<azure ad app secret>';
$targetUser = '<target user UPN/ID>';

$guzzle = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$url = 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/' . $tenantId . '/oauth2/token?api-version=1.0';
$token = json_decode($guzzle->post($url, [
    'form_params' => [
        'client_id' => $clientId,
        'client_secret' => $clientSecret,
        'resource' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/',
        'grant_type' => 'client_credentials',
    ],
])->getBody()->getContents());

$accessToken = $token->access_token;

$data = array(
    "GivenName" => "Test2",
    "Surname" => "account2",
    "EmailAddresses" => array(
        array(
            "Address" => "testaccount2@mail.com",
            "Name" => "Mail Name2"
        )
    )
);

$graph = new Graph();
$graph->setAccessToken($accessToken);

$graph->createRequest("POST", "/users/$targetUser/contacts")
        ->addHeaders(array("Content-Type" => "application/json"))
        ->attachBody($data)
        ->execute();

Result: