How can I get the calendar of a particular user?
Im working on a Podio-to-calendar implementation and want to do that, but so far, I had no positive results.
I can get all the events for workspace, app, etc using the examples and documentation in https://developers.podio.com/doc/calendar .
Is there any calendar method to get the data for a user across Podio?
In that case, can I get even the data that has been synced from another calendar, like the one in my google account? I have the feeling that those events are not saved as podio items at all, am i right?
For getting global calendar I'd start with https://developers.podio.com/doc/calendar/get-global-calendar-22458 method.
For linked account's calendars, you are right - Podio doesn't import event from them as items, they are only displayed on calendar. To get those you should use: https://developers.podio.com/doc/calendar/get-linked-account-calendar-78081299. And to get linked account, you will need this one: https://developers.podio.com/doc/linked-accounts
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I have created a code which generates .ics to synchronize events from my application to other calendar system like google, mac-ical, outlook etc.
I add url to these systems and all events from my application get synchronized.
This code does work fine but problem is event doesn't get synchronized instantly, it takes time to fetch events automatically.
So I want to make all events to get pushed to all subcribers, so that they get instantly updated, many applications do provide such things, in that I get instant update to my iCal on creating event.
So that is possible, I want to know how can I do it using php language, what technology I need to push events, instead of auto fetching by calendar system.
It will get general push to all subscribers not for any particular system like google calendar, I know it does have its own API.
I have a restaurant reservation website build with Laravel and running for merchant and customer.
What I would like to do is, when customer successfully booked at merchant's restaurant, I would like to sync reservation data to "merchant's google calendar" as well as "customer's google calendar".
Is it possible to do with Google Calendar? If so what's the approach to do that?
What would be the seamless approach to sync data between their own calendar and my calendar (from my website)?
As far as I understand your use case from the comments, you actually need to do two different things:
1. Keep the merchant's calendar up to date
For this, a sync might indeed be the best solution. A Calendar API "sync" is just a usual read operation which includes a sync token you can use in later reads to reduce the number of needed operations. It is described in the docs.
2. Add the event to the customer's calendar
You do not want to sync your calendar with the customers' calendar here, just add one event. Of course, you can add an event via the API; however, a much better solution seems to be providing a link for the customer to add the event himself:
https://www.google.com/calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE&text=Your+Event+Name&dates=20150998T224000Z/20150998T221500Z&details=For+details,+link+here:+http://www.example.com&location=Waldorf+Astoria,+301+Park+Ave+,+New+York,+NY+10022&sf=true&output=xml
It is much easier technically, and the customer does not need to give you full access to his calendar (there is no write-only permission).
I would like to basically get all the events that i get invited to on facebook to feed my internal website DB with that info; lets say every day using a cron. the problem is that I think you can get the events if you are the one posting the event not the one receiving the invite.
am I wrong or can someone offer me some insight into how to get this accomplished
You can get the events you have not replied using me/events/not_replied or using Graph Api Explorer.
You can get all upcoming events that you have subscribed/accepted via me/events call. Graph APi Exlporer
and save the time in your db and use since parameter with that time to get latest subscribed events.
If you are running cron job then make sure you are not duplicating or missing some events.
I am creating a php website that uses the Google Calendar API. It's working fine with Create, Update and Delete: any event from the PHP website goes into my Google Calendar events after login.
Events created on my site are created in Google Calendar.
What I want now that is: when I create an event from my test page it goes into Google Calendar after login, then if I update or delete that event from Google Calendar then it should automatically update or delete the php website event.
Basically: 1-way sync is working fine but now I want 2-way synchronization.
If anybody has any ideas then kindly share with me, it will be much appreciated.
There are no application hooks in Google Calendar (gCal) that allow you to trigger an action when an event is deleted. Instead you must either poll gCal at intervals (this could be a cron job every few minutes/hours) and update your calendar accordingly, or any time you perform an action from your calendar have a 1 in X possibly of a full re-sync.
This implies that you are using the gCal as the definitive source, and mirroring those changes back to your local application.
well, after following these answers and building a hole 2 way sync process,
i realized there's a push notifications for calendar since 2013.
you will still need a full sync process because the push notification only notifies about a change but no data about the change.
hope it will save you some time.
Push Notifications
Would it not be an option for your system to generate an iCal output at a special, user-specific URL, and then have the user subscribe to that calendar in Google Calendars (or their iCal-reading calendar of choice)?
That way, your system would always hold the authorative calendar, and Google Calendar would reflect any changes you make automatically.
Alternately, if you are wanting changes in the Google Calendar to be reflected in your application, then you may be able to subscribe to iCals for the User's Calendar, and then poll them at a regular interval to reflect any changes the User has made at that end.
I would lean towards the first option (your iCal subscribed through Google Calendar), as it is a simpler and easier solution.
I have successfully saved all the events from my custom calendar to Google calendar with PHP script. But whenever i try to sync same calendar again, i see all the events are recreated & duplicated. Is their any Google Calendar API clue that might help remove the duplication?
Please help.
Regards.
I am asuming you are using the iCal interface.
We did a similar implementation a while back (not using php but anyways).
What we used to keep this duplication away was that after we had created a new event in the google calendar we fetched from google and found this event. Then we keept track of the "CREATED" part of the iCal file that we got back from google, and simply used this as a reference to know both what have been synced and to be able to link items in google calendar and our side.