Google Calendar Plugin
Development and Programming
Good evening, I have been working to incorporate Google Calendar information into an EE site using the RSS Feed and the Magpie plugin. It’s adequate for now, but I see that there is a Google Calendar plugin for WordPress and am wondering the work involved in porting this to EE. My question is whether there is anyone here who is interested in working on this or may already by working on it? Or, can someone with plugin writing experience give me an idea of how difficult the job would be. Thanks, Andrew
Here’s the WP plugin: http://code.google.com/p/wpng-calendar/
Google provides a Calendar API that allows full read/write interaction with the Google Calendar. Here is sample code that creates an upcoming events list. It can be used without modification for quick and easy integration with EE.
http://gdata-javascript-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/calendar/simple_sample/simple_sample.html
Also found a useful way to manipulate the Google Calendar RSS feed before handing it to the EE Magpie plugin.
www.feed43.com allows you to use regular expressions to extract up to 30 bits from the RSS feed, store them as variables, and then concatenate them using HTML templates. There’s a free version (appends a link to feed43 to each feed item) and a paid version ($30/yr). Handy way to manipulate the feed without programming.
Hi,
I ended up putting together a plugin b/c none of the alternatives were suitable for what I was trying to do. You can read my post and download the plugin here.
cheers.