My current site build involves an events calendar powered by jQuery, Google Calendar and Kirby articles filed into an events section. Theses all get plotted nicely on a visual calendar on the page that can flicked through, a bit like a Datepicker. Clicking on the events either takes you off to the e…

Thanks… i’ve seen that guide and others similar. Ive added the api client library supplied by google but it throws an error when i add it to a template. I followed this guide: https://murze.be/2016/05/how-to-setup-and-use-the-google-calendar-api/ But it throws an error straight away at this line $…

Do you mind telling us what sort of error you get :face_with_raised_eyebrow:?

Ive got past that error. Seems the library doesnt like not being installed by composer… now Kirby errors saying: Call to undefined method Google_Client::loadServiceAccountJson() Which im thinking is becuase theres no value to $credentialJson - that guide author was a bit vague on that.

Ah ha! seems the API has changed. sigh… this is well above my head.

Ok progress… after a bit of swearing, this gets data as JSON… <?php require_once 'vendor/autoload.php'; $client = new Google_Client(); $client->setAuthConfigFile('YOURCREDENTIALS.json'); // Replace this with your JSON file $client->addScope(Google_Service_Calendar::CALENDAR_READONLY); $…

Seems a few months is a long time in the world of APIs… :frowning: Anywho, now i’m stuck again. Seems it did not need decoding, the API took care of that so now i have a variable with data in it, similar to what was on that PHP documentation page you linked me to. How do i pull bits of it out and …

If you have a PHP array, you can loop through it with a foreach loop <?php foreach($events as $event) { echo $event; // or if the event is an array, get an item by key } (don’t know what your array looks like)

Well its pretty big but it looks like this…ive anonymised some of the values object(Google_Service_Calendar_Events)#192 (19) { ["collection_key":protected]=> string(5) "items" ["accessRole"]=> string(6) "reader" ["defaultRemindersType":protected]=> string(37) "Google_Service_Calendar_…

So basically i need to merge data from that array with my side bar nav that currently contains kirby articles and have the google calendar events fall into the list in chronological order as if they were articles in Kirby: <?php // loop through the years $months = $site->find("events")->…

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texnixe July 21, 2017, 4:00pm 8

Yeah, never use an old tutorial when it comes to using APIs

I think "Content from an API" guide needs a revisit

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