laravel-google-calendar

Laravel wrapper for Google Calendar API that (unlike other solutions) utilizes the Google Client API rather than Google Service Accounts. Works seamlessly with FullCalendar.io.

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
  • Available Methods
  • Expose API
  • FullCalendar.io Integration

Installation

This package can be used in Laravel 5.4 or higher.

You can install the package via composer:

composer require hackeresq/laravel-google-calendar

In Laravel 5.5+ the service provider will automatically get registered and you can skip this step. In older versions of the framework just add the service provider in config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    hackerESQ\GoogleCalendar\GoogleCalendarServiceProvider::class,
];

The same is true for the alias. If you're running Laravel 5.5+, you can also skip this step. In older versions of the framework just add the alias in config/app.php file:

'aliases' => [
    // ...
    'GoogleCalendar' => hackerESQ\GoogleCalendar\Facades\GoogleCalendar::class,
];

You can publish the migration and config files and update the user table with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="hackerESQ\GoogleCalendar\GoogleCalendarServiceProvider" && php artisan migrate

Success! laravel-google-calendar is now installed!

Configuration

The first step to properly configure laravel-google-calendar, you need Google API credentials. You can obtain these credentials at https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials/oauthclient/.

Copy and paste the Google API credentials into your .env file. For example:

GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=C13n71D_7166xlnk4q4fd24hdeteq.apps.googleusercontent.com
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=s3cr37sMnYiOk4i8fr2rX

Usage

GoogleCalendar can be accessed using the easy-to-remember Facade, "GoogleCalendar."

Available Methods

getAuthUrl()

Gets the interstitial Google Client API authentication URL.

Optional $redirect: Pass a relative URL (e.g. '/dashboard') to redirect user after authenticated with Google. Defaults to site root (i.e. '/').

isAuthed()

Checks if currently logged in user is authenticated with Google Client API.

listCalendars()

Lists the available calendars for the currently logged in user.

Optional $accessToken: Helpful when you need to manually set a user's access token (e.g. using API authentication rather than Web). Defaults to 'google_access_token' column in the users table.

listEvents()

Lists the events for the currently logged in user.

Optional $calendarId: Manually set Calendar ID. Defaults to 'primary' calendar.

Optional $accessToken: Helpful when you need to manually set a user's access token (e.g. using API authentication rather than Web). Defaults to 'google_access_token' column in the users table.

Optional $start: Defaults to beginning of current month.

Optional $end: Defaults to end of current month.

Optional $timezone: Defaults to null.

updateEvent($request)

Required $request:

Optional $accessToken: Helpful when you need to manually set a user's access token (e.g. using API authentication rather than Web). Defaults to 'google_access_token' column in the users table.

createEvent($request)

Required $request:

Optional $accessToken: Helpful when you need to manually set a user's access token (e.g. using API authentication rather than Web). Defaults to 'google_access_token' column in the users table.

deleteEvent($request)

Required $request:

Optional $accessToken: Helpful when you need to manually set a user's access token (e.g. using API authentication rather than Web). Defaults to 'google_access_token' column in the users table.

Expose API

This package comes with a Controller that can be used (or you can create your own) in order to expose the above methods to an API. Here's a sample Routes definition to do this:

// Google Calendar API routes
Route::group([ 'prefix'=>'api/google' ], function () {
	Route::get('calendars', '\hackerESQ\GoogleCalendar\Controllers\GoogleCalendarController@listCalendars');
	Route::get('events', '\hackerESQ\GoogleCalendar\Controllers\GoogleCalendarController@listEvents');
	Route::put('events/{id}', '\hackerESQ\GoogleCalendar\Controllers\GoogleCalendarController@updateEvent');
	Route::post('events', '\hackerESQ\GoogleCalendar\Controllers\GoogleCalendarController@createEvent');
	Route::delete('events/{id}', '\hackerESQ\GoogleCalendar\Controllers\GoogleCalendarController@deleteEvent');

});

These routes definitions will expose API functionality at 'api/google/calendars' and 'api/google/events' that you can consume via AJAX calls on your site.

FullCalendar.io Integration

You can configure this package to input and output data in a format that can be understood by FullCalendar.io. To do so, you can modify the 'format' property in the google_calendar.php config file as such:

return [
	//....
	
	'format' => 'fullcalendar',
	
	//....
];

Then, when you initialize FullCalendar.io, you can consume the API exposed by following the steps in the Expose API above as such:

$('#calendar').fullCalendar({

  eventSources: [

    // your event source
    {
      url: 'api/google/events',
      type: 'GET',
      data: {
		calendar: 'primary', // define your google calendar id here
      },
      error: function() {
		alert('there was an error while fetching events!');
      }
    }

    // any other sources...

  ]

});

Finally

Contributing

Feel free to create a fork and submit a pull request if you would like to contribute.

Bug reports

Raise an issue on GitHub if you notice something broken.