Topic awaiting preservation: 'Integrating' google calendar - how do I do it

Hi guys - well as the title says I'm not trying to just put a public calendar on a webpage but I'm trying to improvise on a current project. We're building a small events management system to be used free of charge and online however for the displaying of events and adding of events we really like to be able to use google calendars front end as it is.

In short we woudl like to use the front end of google calendar as a front for our web application - is there a way to do it - hey we'd be MORE than happy to add a prominent 'POWERED BY GOOGLE' label - the idea is that registered users would be able to add posts events on teh calendar.

From what I know simple integrating of a calendar refers to just adding a ready calendar on a webpage for all to see. I would like to have the ability to allow registered users - i.e. registered on our website to be able to add events to a single google calendar.

Any ideas

http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/

Does the Embeddable Calendar Helper Tool do what you want?

Don't know anything about using Google Calendar that way.

However,

1) creating a calender app is not all that difficult...

2) there are a *ton* of free web based calendar apps out there...

FWIW

Uh not exactly - the helper just puts a calendar on any website. I want to be able to give access to a piblicc alendar for users to be able to edit and add events as they see fit.

Hotscripts PHP Calendars

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I've checked out a lot of calendars but couldn't find anyone that did what google calendar is capable of. Is there really any way to use google calendars front end as I asked ??? If not well then could make my own...again

still not sure what it is that you want to do. The only way that I know that Google calendar works is if that user has a Google (gmail) account which defeats what you said :

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I would like to have the ability to allow registered users - i.e. registered on our website to be able to add events to a single google calendar.

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Most of the scripts that I linked above will do just about everything google calendar will but I am not sure what Google calendar will do that other wont. PHP-Calendar should be able to do what you want and you can style it fit your website.

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Well PHP Claendar is nice but what we were hoping for is an AJAX based calendar much like google calendar. What we had in mind was that:

-We make one google calendar.
-Integrate it into our application.
-WHichever user logs to OUR APPLICATION - he would be able to see the calendar.
-He would also be able to add events to the calendar and edit events he added earlier
- Plus note that we intend to track which user added which event so as to restrict editing events to their respective creators.

The embeddable calendar only allows to display events on a webpage - our requirmeents go beyond that a bit. Is whatever I have just listed possible with google calendar.

The idea is to use google calendar as though it was a part of our application and interact with our application likewise...

(Edited by paritycheck on 06-30-2008 10:48)

I suppose you could just go with something like this. AJAX, PHP, and all hosted on your own server, so you have total control over it.


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You could use the google calendar api to add events to the calendar. Would have to have some form of user/event management in your application though. The link I posted above has lots of information for working with their API in several different languages.

http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/

Nah.. I've already built a better calendar than the one Skaarjo posted.. but was looking for a few features that the google calendar had. Oh well. We3've scratched the idea of trying to squeeze in google calendar and instead would concentrate on using an earlier calendar I built with some tweaks.

Right now I'm working using the Dojo Library. However I'm stuck in creating those pop up baloon dialogs which you see on google calendar. You know you click on a day in the calendr and the popup well pops up pointing to the day you picked allowing you to add events on the spot.

Any ideas how I can make up that kind of pop up? Or do I need to start a new thread

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paritycheck said:

Any ideas how I can make up that kind of pop up? Or do I need to start a new thread

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might be able to use something like this. Just have to tweak it to put the form in and such...

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paritycheck said:
Right now I'm working using the Dojo Library. However I'm stuck in creating those pop up baloon dialogs which you see on google calendar. You know you click on a day in the calendr and the popup well pops up pointing to the day you picked allowing you to add events on the spot.Any ideas how I can make up that kind of pop up? Or do I need to start a new thread

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I recently built a booking system for our school mini buses that mimics the Google Calendar interface.
I used jQuery for the popups and jQuery UI for the drag bars on the bookings divs. A friend of mine has used Dojo, but he recommended jQuery for me, he said it was easier to implement.
The booking adding and updating is handled via Ajax and string concatenation. It will use JSON when I upgrade our PHP on the webserver.

Oh and the best reference guide I've found for jQuery is Visual jQuery
and I based my popups on JTips

(Edited by PaulBM on 08-19-2008 14:22)