I am creating contact using civicrm API, what i have noticed that the duplicate checking looks inaccurate compared to the check done when entering new contacts via the User Interface.

Under the civicrm API, it's only a match if the given parameters are exactly the same like "John Smith of [email protected]" does not match "Johnathan Smith of [email protected]", for example, but in the UI, simply entering a matching e-mail address throws a warning.

Is there a way to make the civicrm API dupe check behave more like the UI ?

I am creating a contact using CiviCRM API, what I have noticed that the duplicate checking looks inaccurate compared to the check done when entering new contacts via the User Interface.

Under the CiviCRM API, it's only a match if the given parameters are exactly the same like "John Smith of [email protected]" does not match "Johnathan Smith of [email protected]", for example, but in the UI, simply entering a matching e-mail address throws a warning.

Is there a way to make the CiviCRM API dupe check behave more like the UI ?

I am passing the parameter dupe_check = true. The complete call is:

$result = civicrm_api3('Contact', 'create', 
          array( 'sequential' => 1,
                 'contact_type' => "Individual",
                 'first_name' => "raj", 
                 'last_name' => "l", 
                 'dupe_check' => 1, 
                 'api.Email.create' => array('email' => "[email protected]"), )
           );