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.
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I have a Laravel 5 project and I create event on google calendar with larvael-google-calendar.
I need to create reminder but not reminder of an event (so not the notifications to remind an event). The reminder you can create on Google calendar.
This :
Which look like this after created :
And not this
But I don't find anything on it, when I research I always find results concerning the reminder like a notification.
Anybody know how to create it with the API or another method (PHP of course)? (I don't care if I need to remove my package, just want a solution).
I have actually looked around for this for a long time. This is the conclusion i have come to.
The reminders you are speaking of arnt actually part of Google Calendar they are more part of your full Google account as far as i have been able to tell.
You can for example create a reminder though the Google assistant, Google Calendar android app and the Gmail android app as far as i have seen so far.
It appears that this works across multiple applications there for IMO this is not directly part of Google calendar and thats why we cant seem to find an option for adding remainders from within the Google Calendar api.
I think we will have to wait for Google to release a new API for this.
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
I was having trouble trying to list all the events of a specific Google Calender using PHP. I was wondering if I could see a working example?
I've looked at documentation here, but it isn't working for me. If someone could give a working example of a service account listing the events of a certain calender, that would be awesome!
check this link spunmonkey.com/display-contents-google-calendar-php . What is your issue with google calendar? Are you not able to retrieve all the events which are in your calendar? Are you getting any error while retreiving? You can try your request here developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/events/…. Please post your code and error if you have any?
Use this for a guide, but make sure to share your calendar first!All credit goes to SGC.
I've been researching this question for the last few weeks and have had no success trying to connect to Google through OAuth1 OR 2.
I have a client that needs a separate Calendar for each of the homes they are building. On creation of a new home in the database, I want to create a calendar and save the Id of the created calendar.
What options do I have to do this?
It seems like the only way is to have the user get redirected to Google and login to add a calendar... I want to use a static Google account and simply create the calendar that way, without having the annoying "Login to google" screen.
Google api lets you to do whatever you need with a Calendar using their provided libraries. Let's take a look: Google Developer: Instantiate Google Calendar
This SO posts discusses that. Specifically pay attention to the line in the accepted answer where it is mentions the process for adding a new calendar is similar to adding an event.
SO: Google Calendar API Selecting and creating Calendars
I also came across this tutorial which may be helpful in terms of other actions on the calendar once it has been created.
IBM Developer Works: Integrate your PHP Application with Google Calendar
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.