How to send credentials (email/password) to Hotmail/Outlook signin page?

Question

I use this script (https://github.com/svetlozar/php-contacts-importer) to import user's contacts and allow the user to invite his contacts afterwards. I managed to have the yahoo and gmail import scripts working fine but I just can't get the Hotmail script to work. Sounds like they changed how they handle their signin page since this contact-importer script was developed. Can I send credentials to the new signin page using php and AJAX, if so how ? Is there a way to send credentials to either the REST or javascript Hotmail APIs ?

Here is the direct link to the Hotmail.php file: https://github.com/svetlozar/php-contacts-importer/blob/master/Svetlozar.NET/Contacts/Hotmail.php

I see that somes sites are able to sign Hotmail/Outlook users through their own signin page, so I guess it is feasible.

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

The CloudSponge PHP library works with the latest Hotmail APIs:

https://github.com/cloudsponge/cloudsponge-lib-php/

You can see the user experience here:

http://www.cloudsponge.com/test-drive

Disclaimer: I work for CloudSponge.