Last week was pretty hectic in terms of work load and number of different projects I’m involved with right now, both in and outside my course. On a positive note, I was able to complete my last week’s goal, much to my joy!

In brief, here is what I did:

• Integration of PHP Client Library for Google API’s that is distributed by Zend. You can get it here at http://framework.zend.com/download/gdata
• I found a library that had some neat functions for initializing and doing a bunch of stuff with the Zend Libraries. But I couldn’t get it to work properly so I ditched that approach and build my own function that prep data for accessing calendars and such. If you’re interested you can find the library that I found originally at http://github.com/seanmcgary/Codeigniter-Gcal/
• Created a couple of fake calendars in one of my google apps account, and tried to access them using PHP code. I wrote code to fetch, edit, add and delete events. The google documentation is really very helpful in understanding small things and making it easy to write usable code quickly.

Some of the things I’m still fighting with to improve my final output:

• Copy Google Calendar’s CSS or find a way to display something similar to what they show on their google apps page.
• If not the above approach, integrate this with jQuery UI Calendar and build on top of it.

This week’s Goal: Catch up on some sleep, work more on Codeignitor, specifically on Doctrine ORM and how to use it to power a web app I’m working on. Doctrine is particularly exciting to me as it offers millions of possibilities and new things to learn about, some of which people who work on RoR have been boasting for quite some while.