Google calendar Library for CodeIgniter

Manage google calendar events.

Features

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• Read Events
• Update Event
• Delete Event
• Create Event

Setup

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Setup credentials to communicate with Google Calendar

• The first step is to obtain credentials to access Google's API. I'm going to assume you already have a Google account and are logged in. Select a project in the Google API console clicking "Select a project."

• Click on ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES

• Search for calendar

• Chose GOOGLE calendar API

• Enable Api

• Go back to dashboard and Click on Credentials

• Click On Create Crendentials and chose Service Account

• Fill up details

• Finish the setup by clicking on done

• Click on newly Create Service Account Note the email for nex step. You have to use this email to manage calendar

• Click on keys

• Click on Add new key

• Chose Json and Download the key

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Create google calendar and give access to service account:

• Go to Google calendar and Create a new calendar or chose a calendar.

• Scroll down to Share with specific people

• Click on add people and Add the Service account email ID which you copied or get it from the JSON File

• Finally Note Down calendar ID

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Setup Library

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• Install Google App Client via composer: composer require google/apiclient:^2.11
• Download this library by clicking here
• Extract the library to your project folder.
• Open Application/config/gcalendar.php file
• Add calendar ID and Json File Location (which you downloaded when you were generating Service account in the first step) . (I recomend you to put the JSON file in calendarData Folder)

$config['calendarId'] = "CALENDAR_ID";
$config['calendar_json_path'] = "SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON_FILE";//eg calendarData/calendarAPI.json

Usage

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First Call The Library in Controller

$this->load->library("googlecalendar");

• Load Events

$this->googlecalendar->getAll();

• Load Specific Event

$this->googlecalendar->find("event_id");

• Query Event

$this->googlecalendar->where("key1","value1")->where("key2","value2")->get();

• Update Event

$this->googlecalendar->find("event_id");
$event->setSummary('Appointment at Somewhere');
$event->setLocation('Bangladesh');
$this->googlecalendar->update($event);

• Delete Event

$this->googlecalendar->delete("event_id");

• Create Event

$data = array(
            'summary' => 'Google I/O 2015',
            'location' => '800 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103',
            'description' => 'A chance to hear more about Google\'s developer products.',
            'start' => array(
                'dateTime' => '2015-05-28T09:00:00-07:00',
                'timeZone' => 'America/Los_Angeles',
            ),
            'end' => array(
                'dateTime' => '2015-05-28T17:00:00-07:00',
                'timeZone' => 'America/Los_Angeles',
            ),
            'recurrence' => array(
                'RRULE:FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=2'
            ),
            'attendees' => array(
                array('email' => 'lpage@example.com'),
                array('email' => 'sbrin@example.com'),
            ),
            'reminders' => array(
                'useDefault' => FALSE,
                'overrides' => array(
                    array('method' => 'email', 'minutes' => 24 * 60),
                    array('method' => 'popup', 'minutes' => 10),
                ),
            ),
        );

	$this->googlecalendar->insert($data);

• You can also set some option parameters:

$this->googlecalendar->singleEvents(true)->showDeleted(false)->showHiddenInvitations(false)
            ->orderBy("startTime")->timeMin(mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year))
            ->timeMax(mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year))
            ->updatedMin(mktime($hour, $minute, $second, $month, $day, $year))
            ->maxResults(10)
            ->getAll();

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Some tips:

This command will bring all the gogle services in your vendor folder and creates a lot of unnecessary files. composer require google/apiclient:^2.11

So if you only need some specific services and don't need files for other services like addmob,drive,youtube you can put this in composer and run composer update

"require": {
		"php": ">=5.3.7",
		"google/apiclient": "2.11"
	},
"scripts": {
		"post-update-cmd": "Google\\Task\\Composer::cleanup"
	},
	"extra": {
		"google/apiclient-services": [
			"Calendar"
		]
	},

and run composer update

This will remove unnecessary service's files

For more details please checkout Google Calendar Php Docs