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PHP Google Calendar Add Event: Create 'Add to my google calendar' link for a page

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This package can be used to create 'Add to my google calendar' link for a page.

It can take several parameters to configure the details of a given event, so it can generate HTML for a link on a page that when the user clicks on it will be added to his Google Calendar.

Currently it takes parameters to define event details like:

- Event name
- Event start date and time zone
- Event duration
- Event location
- Event description
- Event guest email addresses

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Google Calendar is a popular task scheduling application used by many people.

This package provides a simple way to add a scheduled task to Google Calendar by generating a link with all the parameters of the task.

So when the user clicks on that link, the browser goes to a page of Google Calendar to add the task to his calendar.

This way it becomes simple for a site to add tasks to other people calendars on Google Calendar.

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Example

<?php
require_once 'autoloader.php';

use
SKien\GCalendar\GCalAddEventLink;

$oLink = new GCalAddEventLink();

$oLink->setSubject('Zoom meeting at christmas day');
$oLink->setStart('2020-12-24 13:00');
$oLink->setDuration('PT1H'); // 1 hour
$oLink->setTimezone('America/New_York');
$oLink->setDetails(
   
'We just want to meet us via zoom cause we are not allowed to ' . PHP_EOL .
   
'meet us at the christmas market :-(' . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL .
   
'And this is just a check whether the usual problems caused by' . PHP_EOL .
   
'German umlauts are correctly intercepted: ä, ö, ü, Ä, Ö, Ü, ß ...'
);
$oLink->setLocation('Homeoffice');
$oLink->addGuest('guest1@example.com');
$oLink->addGuest('guest2@example.com');

echo
'<h1>Example to add event to google calendar</h1>' . PHP_EOL;
echo
'<a target="_blank" href="' . $oLink->getHREF() . '">Add to google calendar</a>' . PHP_EOL;


Details

Create 'Add to my google calendar' Link to your Homepage

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Overview

This class can generate the HREF value to provide a Add to my google calendar link to your page.

Following Data for the event to create is supported: - Subject

- `setSubject()`  
  • Start Date/Time - `setStart()`
  • End Date/Time or Duration(if not set, default duration of 30 min is used) - `setEnd()` or `setDuration()`
  • Timezone (if not set, system settings used) - `setTimezone()`
  • All day Event - `setTimezone()`
  • Detailed Description (optional) - `setDetails()`
  • Location - `setLocation()`
  • Additional Guest(s) - `addGuest()`

Usage

  1. Create an instance of the GCalAddEventLink class
  2. Set the required information for the event to be generated
  3. Pass the generated HREF to an <a> element on your page

See AddEventExample.php

Logging

This package can use any PSR-3 compliant logger. The logger is initialized with a NullLogger-object by default. The logger of your choice have to be passed to the constructor of the GCalAddEventLink class.

If you are not working with a PSR-3 compatible logger so far, this is a good opportunity to deal with this recommendation and may work with it in the future.

There are several more or less extensive PSR-3 packages available on the Internet.

You can also take a look at the 'XLogger' package and the associated blog 'PSR-3 logging in a PHP application' as an introduction to this topic.

History

2020-12-15 Version 1.00

* initial Version


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Very easy and functional.
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