Applescript to get phone number from name

Question

Hi, I am trying to make an applescript that will simply return a phone number from contacts when given a name. It is part of a larger script, but everything else is already working. It seems like it would be pretty simple, but nothing that I have tried will work.
Here is my best guess:
tell application "Contacts"
get phone of "John Doe"
end tell
I just need to set a variable to equal the phone number that is returned. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hello
You may try something like this.
set n to "John Doe"
tell application id "com.apple.AddressBook"
    set p to value of phone 1 of (person 1 whose name = n)
    set q to {label, value} of phones of (people whose name = n)
    set r to value of phone 1 of (person 1 whose name = n) whose label = "home"
end tell
return {p, q, r}
Note that database may contain multiple records for the same person name and a person's record may contain multiple phone numbers.
Tested with AddressBook 5.0.3 under OS X 10.6.8.
Regards,
H