Contact Manager Book Project Overview

The Contact Manager Book is a command-line application designed to help users manage their contacts efficiently. Built using Object-Oriented Programming principles, this project utilizes a dynamic array class to handle a variable number of contacts, providing functionalities such as adding, updating, deleting, searching, and saving contacts to a file. The project emphasizes modularity and data management, making it easy to maintain and extend.

Features

• Add new contacts with multiple phone numbers and emails.

• Search contacts by last name or classification (friend, work, family, other).

• Display all contacts or favorite contacts.

• Update and delete existing contacts.

• Save contacts to a text file and load from a file.

• Reverse the order of contacts.

Classes Overview

Address Class

• Purpose: Represents the address details of a contact.

• Attributes:

  • streetNumber: The street number of the contact's address.
  • streetName: The street name of the contact's address.
  • town: The town of the contact's address.
  • state: The state of the contact's address.

• Methods:

  • Constructors and setters/getters for each attribute.
  • printAddress(): Outputs the address in a readable format.

Person Class

• Purpose: Represents an individual contact.

• Attributes:

  • first_name: The first name of the contact.
  • last_name: The last name of the contact.
  • phone: A dynamic array holding multiple phone numbers.
  • email: A dynamic array holding multiple email addresses.
  • classification: Classification of the contact (e.g., friend, work).
  • favourite: Boolean indicating if the contact is a favorite.
  • address: An instance of the Address class for storing address details.

• Methods:

  • Constructors, copy constructor, and assignment operator.
  • Getters and setters for each attribute.
  • printPerson(): Outputs contact details in a readable format.
  • operator==: Compares two Person objects.

DynamicArray Class

• Purpose: A template class that implements a dynamic array to hold elements of any data type.

• Attributes:

  • arr: Pointer to the dynamic array.
  • size: Current number of elements in the array.
  • capacity: Total capacity of the array.

• Methods:

  • Constructors and destructors to manage memory.
  • append(): Adds an element to the array.
  • Delete(): Removes an element at a specified index.
  • getSize(): Returns the current size of the array.
  • get(): Retrieves an element at a specified index.
  • reverse(): Reverses the elements of the array.
  • display(): Outputs all elements in the array.

ContactsBook Class

• Purpose: Manages a collection of Person objects.

• Attributes:

  • contacts: A dynamic array holding all contacts.

• Methods:

  • addcontact(): Adds a new contact to the collection.
  • deletecontact(): Deletes a contact based on its index.
  • displayallcontacts(): Displays all contacts in the collection.
  • displayallFavcontacts(): Displays favorite contacts.
  • SerachByLN(): Searches for contacts by last name.
  • SerachByClass(): Searches for contacts by classification.
  • searchIndex(): Finds the index of a specific contact.
  • ReverseContacts(): Reverses the order of the contact list.
  • getContact(): Retrieves a contact at a specified index.
  • saveContactsToFile(): Saves contacts to a specified file.
  • loadFromFile(): Loads contacts from a specified file.