Having 'magpie' show Google Calendar entries; my way:
Development and Programming
Hello:
I’m using the Magpie Plugin to show the information from a Google Calendar; it all works great however, the information doesn’t get listed the way I want. Here’s what I’m using:
{exp:magpie url="http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/[email protected]/public/basic?orderby=starttime&sortorder=ascending&futureevents=true&singleevents=true&hl=en" offset="1" limit="5" refresh="720"}
{items}
<span class="sub">{title}</span>
{content}
{/items}
{/exp:magpie}And this is what I get (exactly the way it shows; with extra-brakes and all)
Wisconsin University When: Sat Nov 1, 2008 9:45am to 11:45am EDT Where: Oshkosh, WI - Reeve Memorial Union Event Status: confirmed
The way I want it is this:
Wisconsin University Oshkosh, WI - Reeve Memorial Union Saturday, Nov 1, 2008 9:45am to 11:45am EDT Event Status: confirmed
Note the removal of extra-brakes & styling.
I’m not sure if I should work the plug-in to show the info the way I want it; or Google Calendar has its own limitations.
I was even thinking if there’s another plug-in/script that could help me manipulate the information better than Magpie?
Well, you could certainly style the {title}, make it bigger, use a <h.> tag or something, but the rest is coming from Google Calendar as is, I think, thrown together in the {content} blob, so unless you parse it locally using some PHP that’s the way it is.
You’d probably need another plugin to style {content} the way you want it.
Ahh, there’s some scripts floating around offering a wide array of choices, I guess I’ll have to dig into them. But, thanks for the quick reply Ingmar. I’ll post an update if I get to twist & turn GCal the way I want it.
I believe you could use jquery as well to manipulate the contents, I’m not going to look up the exact syntax, but it’s pretty powerful when it comes to manipulating and styling text.
Well, I ended up using ‘gcal’ : much more flexible when it comes to displaying a public Google Calendar a specifying what information shows and where.
Check out this post: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/79178/