Google Calendar API using Zend Library - php

Question

I'm following the tutorial on http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-googleclndr/ for working with the Google Calendar API, but I'm running into some strange problems. My PHP code looks like this
require_once 'Zend/Loader.php';
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Gdata');
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin');
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Gdata_Calendar');
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Http_Client');
//create authenticated HTTP client for Calendar service
$gcal = Zend_Gdata_Calendar::AUTH_SERVICE_NAME;
$user = "daniel.lieberman610#gmail.com";
$pass = "*******";
$client = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient($user, $pass, $gcal);
$gcal = new Zend_Gdata_Calendar($client);
//generate query to get event list
$query = $gcal->newEventQuery();
$query->setUser($user);
$query->setVisibility('private');
$query->setProjection('basic');
//get and parse calendar feed
//print output
try {
$feed = $gcal->getCalendarEventFeed($query);
echo "<!--comment-->\n";
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo "<!--different comment-->\n";
}
Some kind of exception is occurring inside the try block, but not the Zend_Gdata_App_Exception because the error message is not being displayed. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Also, I am learning PHP as I go along here. Thanks a lot for your help.

Answer 1

Move the try code to the beginning of the file. Is there an error shown? Here you will find a working example which I'm using in my Joomla extension https://github.com/Digital-Peak/GCalendar/blob/master/com_gcalendar/admin/libraries/GCalendar/GCalendarZendHelper.php
By the way I suggest to move to the new google calendar API v3 because they shut down version 2 (which uses Zend) probably next year. Here is the link to the libs https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/downloads