Zend Framework Archives

Caching Zend_Gdata Auth Across Pages

Posted October 25th, 2010 (Updated 29 Oct 2011) in PHP

I’ve been working with the Zend_Gdata tools lately to perform various Google Calendar operations. One thing I’ve noticed, though, is that there are no tutorials on how to cache the auth request between pages. Caching the authentication would result in one less expensive operation to an external server upon each new file request (The retrieving of a new, working Zend_Gdata_HTTPClient object). Figuring out how to accomplish this seemingly simple task proved a little more difficult than I’d have liked and ironically ended up being very simple 🙂

Deleting a Google Calendar with PHP

Posted October 13th, 2010 (Updated 29 Oct 2011) in PHP

I’ve recently started looking at the Google Calendar Data API for PHP for use in an upcoming project. It uses Zend Framework which has a pretty nice library complete with documentation here allowing for just about every operation I required…except deleting calendars (which is a bit strange, considering you’re able to create them with the API). This seems to be a limitation with version 1.0 of the API. Version 2 allows for deletion of calendars however there’s no documentation PHP implementation yet. After a long night of researching and hair pulling I’ve finally managed to come up with a working script provided.

EDIT – Now working with Zend Framework!

“Discovery Failed” with Zend OpenID

Posted October 2nd, 2010 (Updated 29 Oct 2011) in PHP

A very quick post for any of you poor souls suffering the dreaded ‘Discovery Failed’ message in Zend_OpenID_Consumer when trying to connect to Google – see this comment on Stack Overflow for the solution you’re looking for. Hopefully this’ll save you some time hunting around on the web for it.