Comments on: Using Google Calendar to Manage Library Website Hours

By: Thing Eight: Google Calendar « Charlie's 23 Things for Professional Development

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:26:10 +0000

[...] see some examples of how libraries use Google Calendar and thought Ithaca College Library’s use of the Google API to push Google Calender data to their library homepage was particularly ingenious. Particularly the [...]

By: web designer

web designer — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:23:19 +0000

I can’t seem to find the ability to show multiple calendars. Is it possible or I have to separate the queries?

By: Thing 8 – I Dream of Google Calendars « Librarian in a Nutshell

Thing 8 – I Dream of Google Calendars « Librarian in a Nutshell — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:06:12 +0000

[...] pages, since currently I manually update html tables in my capacity as the library webmaster. The code4lib article and blog post about how libraries are using Google Calendar (both provided in the original Thing 8 [...]

By: Ray Voelker

Ray Voelker — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:51:46 +0000

I haven’t looked very deep into this, but has anyone had trouble with 24 hour events not showing up in the feed? I tried, and they just won’t import into the local DB.

By: Patty

Patty — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:15:20 +0000

This is pretty useful..I think I might find a couple other uses for this code.

By: Dung Le

Dung Le — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:03:31 +0000

Thank you so much for such a well written a useful article.

Dung.

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:55:38 +0000

Thanks again Darby – nice code

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:08:54 +0000

Oops, I lied! I did come up with something so it doesn’t have to query the db every time the page loads, but not as nice as what you described.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:06:51 +0000

Interesting way to do that, Andrew, and less taxing on the server I would think. I implemented this in a barebones form for Haverford’s library website, but didn’t think to do that, so every time the page is loaded it’s querying the db. Plus we just got PHP 5, so I haven’t been able to implement the Google Calendar portion of this yet. I’m going to try that out in January.

By: Andrew Darby

Andrew Darby — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:53:15 +0000

@Darren: We use the method noted above, and a cron job queries the DB every night and saves that day’s hours to a file, which is then read by our home page.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:58:38 +0000

nice article – thanks Darby :) how do you display today’s hours on Ithaca Library’s mainpage?

By: adi

adi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:36:49 +0000

hello

my task to extract data from MySQL database, which contains events, dates and authors and put the events automatically to Google Calendar.

So any help would do. If you can provide me any help, I would be very tahnkful.

Thanks
Adi

By: tomkeays

tomkeays — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:40:58 +0000

I came across this article on IBM DeveloperWorks today, “Integrate your PHP application with Google Calendar”, that nicely extends Andrew’s piece.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/x-googleclndr/