nContxt is a mobile interface for 37signals‘ Highrise contact manager. It works on iPhones. It works on Windows Mobile phones, non-smartphones. It works on any phone with a web browsers. It’s free for the first week, and then $5/month.

Here are some screenshots (more here):

After logging in, you can search your contacts (people and companies). You also see a list of upcoming tasks and their associated party:

Searching for a person/company will display a list of results:

Clicking on a name shows the info for a person…

…or a company.

You can drill down to see more info.

As you’d expect, the phone numbers are nice and clickable (we are on a mobile :-)) , as are the email addresses and websites.

Using the SimpleHighrise PHP API, nContxt generates compact, XHTML Strict pages that render flawlessly on mobile browsers. This is an answer to the call for a mobile version of Highrise.

nContxt: The right things. The right time. Try it today. It’s free for the first week, and then $5/month.

More on it here.

I have just began using some of the products from 37signals, including Ta-da List, Backpack, and Highrise (I also have a dormant Basecamp account).

Today I’d like to announce the first of many coding projects I’ll be posting at Activist Nerd: SimpleHighrise. This was inspired SimpleBackpack, the PHP wrapper class for Backpack, and much of the underlying utility code remains intact.

Download

SimpleHighrise.php, vAlpha

SimpleHighrise.php, vBeta

SimpleHighrise.php, vGamma

Disclaimer

This code comes no warranty, so use it at your own risk

What it doesn’t do [yet]

• Error checking/handling
• Update operations on objects listed in the Highrise API

What it does do

On all objects listed in the Highrise API:

• Show
• List
• Create
• Destroy

Please try it out and let me know any problems, issues, or ideas about SimpleHighrise!

Sample Usage

The following code instantiates a SimpleHighrise object. $result will hold the raw XML for all of the people the user can see:

include('simplehighrise.php');
$token = "token".":foo"; // tack on : (colon) and dummy password
$hr = new SimpleHighrise('user', $token);
$result = $hr->list_people();
echo $result;
Just as in SimpleBackpack, in order to return SimpleXML, do the following:

include('simplehighrise.php');
$token = "token".":foo";
$hr = new SimpleHighrise('username', $token, 'simplexml');

I’ll be adding to this as time progresses.

Update (24 Sep 2007): I posted vGamma, which has the following changes:

• Error handling: returns -1 if no results are returned from an op or if an op fails
• Better case support
• Miscellaneous bug fixes in handling different data types

Update (16 Aug 2007): I posted vBeta, which has the following changes:

• Added ability to return results as an array, using code from here. Here is an example:include('simplehighrise.php');
$token = "token".":foo";
$hr = new SimpleHighrise('username', $token, 'array');
• Fixed search_people() and search_companies() to be able to return multiple people/companies (before, it was written to only return the1st person/company.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.