SimpleCal: Retrieve and Display a Google Calendar

[SimpleSi]

I've developed some code for a primary school to retrieve and parse a Google Calendar RSS feed so that it can be easily displayed on a large screen in the staff room.

 

SimpleCal.txt (Cut and paste code into a PHP file to run it)

 

Here is a demo of the code in action

Google Calendar Reader with Simple Output

 

The first part of the code does the hard work to cache the feed (so the display can be refreshed without upsetting Mr Google with repeated requests for same info) and converts the RSS XML into something a lot more manageable and easy to understand.

 

Here is another demo showing a more complex table output but using the same core code

2 Week Table View

 

Please let me know of any bugs/feature requests

 

regards

Simon

Edited July 2, 2011 by SimpleSi

[SimpleSi]

Updated to V1.1 which has a separate cache file for each php file using one. This lets you run multiple variations on same server (a weekly views needs all the current weeks records but a planner view only needs records from today onwards)

 

Simon

[SimpleSi]

Here is the link to a planner view using same code base

Planner View

 

Si

[john]

Clever stuff Si, but did you know that they have on Thursday July 14th a Technician on Site between 1300-1530 .......... I think there trying to steal your job

[SimpleSi]

I thought that was just dummy data

Si

[Ric_]

I particularly like the tartan background there Si

 

[SimpleSi]

There'll be a prize for guessing what the tartan background really is?

 

Si

[SimpleSi]

Made some changes to simple,php in that it now requires a separate config file called config_php.php (in same folder)

This makes it easier to have mulitple view php files using same feed url (and MUCH easier for me when using the code across several sites)

 

simple.php V1.2 and config_url.php

(Link not workign for some reason

$config_url = "Please enter your private XML feed from calendar settings page";
/*
for example
$config_url = "https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/someone%40gmail.com/private-fe9gea464aec20f3aaf6aace51a057789/basic";
*/
?>

)

 

I've abandoned work on the planner view and concentrating on the vertical table view.

 

I've added auto scrolling using javascript (to cope with schools putting EVERTHING into the diary) and you an see an exampel of this in action here

 

regards

 

Simon

Edited July 10, 2011 by SimpleSi