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Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Download: Rob Z’s Widgetized Wordpress Google Calendar « TechKnowMe

Download: Rob Z’s Widgetized Wordpress Google Calendar « TechKnowMe — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:30:07 +0000

[...] off, I did NOT write the bulk of this code – the bulk of it was written by Justin Bennett and the original can be found on his site. I take no responsibility or credit for the original code, only for my modifications. Having said [...]

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Melinda

Melinda — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:45:02 +0000

I am having a problem where the times randomly change. I don’t know if it’s a time zone issue through my host, or if it’s a plugin thing, but I have to go back and do the math to change the offset every few weeks. My clients are not happy about this, especially since it now says their church service is at 2pm (once it was at 3 am!). I would LOVE something where you can just pick the time zone, so it doesn’t have to do math based on any server time zones.

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Jarryd Pearson

Jarryd Pearson — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:41:14 +0000

My apologies. I’ve just realised that every time I add the question mark, it’s causing a “Headers already output” error. When I delete the question mark, it’s still outputting the error.

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Jarryd Pearson

Jarryd Pearson — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:24:49 +0000

Hi Justin

I’m not sure if you’ve updated it, however I discovered the reason for the error on Line 104:

bjh posted: Followed the instructions, set up the feed, and I get the following right out of the box:
Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<’ not found in /home/bjhelms/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gcalpars/gcalparse.php on line 104
Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Unknown projection:basic&max-results=4 in /home/bjhelms/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gcalpars/gcalparse.php on line 104

To fix this problem, I changed:

$feed_url .= '&max-results=' . (( get_option('gcal_max_results') == '' ) ? '4' : get_option('gcal_max_results'));

to:

$feed_url .= '?&max-results=' . (( get_option('gcal_max_results') == '' ) ? '4' : get_option('gcal_max_results'));

You hadn't added the question mark before the ampersand. Once I added the question mark, it worked fine.

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Jesse Zimmerman

Jesse Zimmerman — Sat, 22 May 2010 01:47:48 +0000

Justin,

This is a great plugin. Your plugin gives you the best free calendar tool in a event list format + sidebar widget. It is exactly what I needed for several sites. So thank you for your work with it. I will no doubt make a donatation once I get these sites to production.

The problem I’m having is a slow connection to Google. It may just be because my list of events queried from Google via sidebar widget is rather large (10 events). I’ve noticed the same thing on the Events page.

I do love the instantaneous sync between WP and GC, but is there some type of caching mechanism available? I think it would help greatly if the feed was not always live, but able to be cached, with a live update via click.

I may be able to help.. I haven’t gotten into looking through your code yet.

Thanks, and this is a great plugin that I was able to get working sufficiently within 10 minutes.

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:20:08 +0000

Hello,

I really love your plugin, but have come across an issue. Was wondering if you could help:

I’ve been trying to get the links to work with a lightbox. I’ve tried several lightboxes, and have gotten them to work other external webpages. But for some reason the google calendar url links dont work in Safari. They always appear blank! Could you take a look at this link? I’m really in a bind, and not sure where to go with this issue.

http://www.greyyy.com/rigor/test.html

Thanks for the help!

-m

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Justin

Justin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:15:21 +0000

Jim/Chuck,

When I initially designed this plugin I ran into the issue of timezones, as you are both seeing. The problem is that Google, your web server and PHP are all configured for a particular timezone, which may or may not be the timezone you’re actually in. I attempted to compensate for misinterpreted times by including the customizable offset, which works in many cases.

Chuck, the problem you’re seeing with some events being off by a day is certainly odd and not one that I’d heard of yet.

I have a few ideas for ways I could remedy these issues. I will try to do some research in the coming days and will certainly let you know via a comment here and a new blog post if I come up with anything that will help you. (maybe it’s time for a 0.4!)

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Jim

Jim — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:11:52 +0000

I have restored the current version of the code and still have the same problem. The behavior of the code is different on home pages than on other pages. I have tried this on both the Titanium abd bChurch themes from iThemes.
My offset is 0, not the default 7200.

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:37:25 +0000

Ever since daylight savings time, my calendar is off in the upcoming events by an hour…but it’s right in the Google Calendar page.
I changed the seconds offset, and it fixed some…but now others are a day early.

Comment on Google Calendar Feed Parser by Jim

Jim — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:27:29 +0000

I have a problem with the time displayed for my calendar. I tweaked the code to adjust the display and everything works great on the home page. But on every other page, the time is displayed off by 5 hours, as GMT. When I click on the link, the time is displayed by Google correctly.

Here is the Feed URL
http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/hopeofspringfield@gmail.com/public/full?ctz=America/Chicago&orderby=starttime&sortorder=ascending&futureevents=true&singleevents=true