MS Graph php create contacts - php

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: