How to get Contacts component elements from other components/pages in Joomla 3.x?

Question

PHP

Own subject ))
It is required on the main page to get all the elements of a certain category of the Contacts component to work with them.
Preferably through the api of Joomla itself?

Answer 1

Found the answer on the Internet

JModelLegacy::addIncludePath(JPATH_SITE . '/components/com_contact/models', 'ContactModel');

$model = JModelLegacy::getInstance('Contact', 'ContactModel', array('ignore_request' => true));

$appParams = JFactory::getApplication()->getParams();
$model->setState('params', $appParams);

$model->getItem($id)

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Answer 2

And watched as in the component the list of contacts is deduced???