Sorry for the typos. How embarrassing.
On Oct 10, 6:42 pm, crazytonyi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure if the issue is with whoever has domain over the PHP
> documentation, or if there is a hold up making new classes/
> documentation for the Zend Framework or if Google just thinks anybody
> using PHP is incapable of grasping core programming concepts so that
> PHP developers are last on their priority list, but!
>
> I asked and got no response. I found someone else who had asked and
> got a vague response, finally after looking at the .NET documentation
> (bleck!) and the Python Documentation and finally the Zend Google API
> class library (including some core stuff under the Google API) I was
> able to successfully add a new non-primary calendar AND add events to
> said calendar.
>
> If the problem is simply that these features are as new as the other
> docs make it sound and PHP documentation has yet to be written,
> please, whoever reads these and can make important decisions, feel
> free to add this or something similar to the official documentation.
> My only request is that in exchange you add the documentation for
> batch requests, because a person needs 8 hours of sleep at night.
>
> Without further ado:
>
> Adding a new non-primary calendar in PHP:
>
> First, we set up the usual stuff:
> $gdataCal = new Zend_Gdata_Calendar($client);
>
> Next, I like to make sure that the calenard isn't their already:
>
> $calFeed = $gdataCal->getCalendarListFeed();
>
> $noAppCal = true;
>
> foreach ($calFeed as $calendar) {
> $noAppCal = ($calendar -> title -> text == "App Calendar") ?
> false : $noAppCal;
> }
>
> If we don't find it, we then create the calendar:
>
> if($noAppCal) {
> $appCal = $gdataCal -> newListEntry();
> $appCal -> title = $gdataCal-> newTitle("App Calendar");
> $own_cal = "http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/
> owncalendars/full";
> $gdataCal->insertEvent($appCal, $own_cal);
> }
>
> Notice that this identical to adding a calendar event except in three
> ways:
>
> 1. Instead of newEventEntry() we use newListEntry(); (This was a lucky
> guess based on magic methods and the .NET api)
>
> 2. Instead of using the default URI produced by $client, you replace
> it with:
>
> http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/default/owncalendars/full
>
> (This is documented in all other server-side APIs I ran across)
>
> 3. In order to actually set the URI to something other than the
> default used by $client, you must set the second parameter of the
> insertEvent() method. (This was the part I got stuck on the longest, I
> finally found this in the Zend_Http_Client library).
>
> Oh, and the calendar has several options you can set, including color.
> Check out the other api's for details.
>
> And there you have it. On two daunting task two:
>
> Creating an event in a non-primary calendar in PHP:
>
> We'll use the client from the last example, and add the event to the
> new calendar just created...
>
> First we have to find out the unique URI for our new calendar. So
> again, we loop:
>
> $calFeed = $gdataCal->getCalendarListFeed();
>
> foreach ($calFeed as $calendar) {
> $appCallUri = ($calendar->title->text == "App Calendar") ?
> $calendar->content->src : "";
> }
>
> It took me forever to find a nice path in the XMLDOM that returned
> that URI, but that's the one.
>
> Next we create our event as normal. But I'd like to show how I get the
> Date/Time, as the official documentation is a bit confusing:
>
> $title = "Christmas Dinner";
> $date = "12/25/2009";
> $start = "7:30 PM";
> $end = "9:00 PM";
>
> $eventStart = date('Y-m-d\TH:i:sP', strtotime($start." ".$date);
> $eventEnd = date('Y-m-d\TH:i:sP', strtotime($end." ".$date);
>
> $newEvent = $gdataCal->newEventEntry();
> $newEvent->title = $gdataCal->newTitle($title);
> $when = $gdataCal->newWhen();
> $when->startTime = $eventStart;
> $when->endTime = $eventEnd;
> $newEvent->when = array($when);
>
> And then, finally, we add the event, using the calendar URI from that
> last loop:
>
> $createdEvent = $gdataCal->insertEvent($newEvent, $appCalUrl);
>
> For this part, it's much simplier. You just need to loop through the
> calendars, search by title->text for the calendar name and grab
> content->src as the URI to set, then it's just a matter of setting it
> in the same way we did to create it.
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