Comments on: Download: Rob Z’s Widgetized WordPress Google Calendar

By: Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:12:03 +0000

I’ve got a Google calendar embedded on my WordPress 2.9.2 blog using Atahualpa 3.4.5.
I would like to allow certain users the ability to add or edit events on the Google calendar from within WordPress. Right now I’m having them send me emails, but I’d rather have direct update of the Google calendar from within a WP plug in. Any ideas?

By: Tom Brincefield

Tom Brincefield — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:41:37 +0000

When I put the URL in my browswer (Firefox 3.5.7) it opens up my RSS reader, NewsFox. The information there seems to be correct.

By: Rob Z.

Rob Z. — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:06:27 +0000

@Tom – did you try viewing the URL you got in a web browser? Is it displaying an XML feed of the calendar items, or is it generating an error?

The better solution, I think, is to put some validation on the XML parser in the code and elegantly handle the error rather than stop all parsing. I’ll look into that…

By: Tom Brincefield

Tom Brincefield — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:11:28 +0000

I don’t know if they are still having it, but I just tried using the plugin for the widget and got the same thing. It broke the formatting on the page, so that nothing after the error messages showed up.

I copied the XML link from the Google calendar I was using and put it in the Feed URL spot, then set the max events to 5, with no static URL, and saved the options.

By: Rob Z.

Rob Z. — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:51:39 +0000

Sorry for being flaky on the response on this – are you still having this issue?

What is the original url you’re starting with? If the URL already has a query string in it, then this won;t work – you will need the ampersand.

By: Rob Z.

Rob Z. — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:49:42 +0000

Well, here we are in 2010 and I’m just now seeing these. Sorry – been intensely lamely busy.

I hope you got this fixed on your own, but the solution looks to be in how the request was made to the Google calendar. If you open it in your browser, you’ll see Google returns an error in non-XML format. Not sure why it’s throwing the error, though. Let me know if you;re still having problems – I swear I’ll pay attention to my inbox

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:33:52 +0000

The feed address looks good in a browser, but I get the following errors:

Warning: Feed URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/0214dfaqtgrf61urtt66odtk1k%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic&max-results=4 in /usr/share/web/webelder/webshare/wp-content/plugins/google-calendar-feed-parser/gcalparse.php on line 150

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘String could not be parsed as XML’ in /usr/share/web/webelder/webshare/wp-content/plugins/google-calendar-feed-parser.

It looks like it fails in the XML Parser.. (after looking at the code..)
Any help??

By: John M

John M — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:43:26 +0000

Hello. I’m trying to add this plugin to our website, and I get a couple of errors (as I did with justin’s original). I’m wondering now if it’s an hosting or version issue??? Here are the errors

First, I had to change the &max-results to ?max-results in the line:

$feed_url .= ‘?max-results=’ . (( get_option…

Once past that I get the “Node no longer exists” error when trying to retrieve the start and end times:

$start = date(“l, F j \\f\\r\o\m g:ia”, strtotime($gd->when->attributes()->startTime) + $offset);
$end = date(“g:ia”, strtotime($gd->when->attributes()->endTime) + $offset);

I’m not fluent in php. Did I break something by eliminating the ampersand?

Thanks,
John

By: Syam

Syam — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:47:53 +0000

Hi, I am getting this error message when I try to save entered settings.

Error! Options page not found.

Am using WordPress 2.8.4.

Could you advise? Thanks in advance

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:50:24 +0000

Rob –

Excellent and just what I needed. Thanks!