Comments for iamhigham.com http://iamhigham.com adventures of a software developer Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:49:48 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by Nick Worth http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-364 Nick Worth Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:49:48 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-364 When I'm doing it this way I get a error 500 code (even using just the code you provided with the holiday calendar. It seemed at first to be caused by the line: <code>$google_domain = $url['scheme'].'://'.$url['host'].dirname($url['path']).'/';</code> If I replace this the variable with the expected value it works past this line but then brakes elsewhere. Not sure the what the problem is When I’m doing it this way I get a error 500 code (even using just the code you provided with the holiday calendar. It seemed at first to be caused by the line:

$google_domain = $url['scheme'].'://'.$url['host'].dirname($url['path']).'/';

If I replace this the variable with the expected value it works past this line but then brakes elsewhere. Not sure the what the problem is

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by Nick Worth http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-363 Nick Worth Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:22:15 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-363 Same issue here, I'm running different test but seeing the same problem, events are hard coded into place. Any luck from anyone else getting around this? Same issue here, I’m running different test but seeing the same problem, events are hard coded into place. Any luck from anyone else getting around this?

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by Dave http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-356 Dave Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:15:39 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-356 Brilliant! Thanks for sharing! For those of you who use Firefox, view the source of your page - then click on the link to the google calendar - it will show the source code for your calendar. Copy and paste this code onto a new page on your site, update the links to the css and javascript with absolute URLs. In the head section between the enter this css code <code> span.te-t { white-space: normal !important; } span.te-s { white-space: normal !important; } </code> Works great for me. Thank you! Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

For those of you who use Firefox, view the source of your page – then click on the link to the google calendar – it will show the source code for your calendar. Copy and paste this code onto a new page on your site, update the links to the css and javascript with absolute URLs. In the head section between the enter this css code


span.te-t {
white-space: normal !important;
}

span.te-s {
white-space: normal !important;
}

Works great for me. Thank you!

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by pelicanPaul http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-353 pelicanPaul Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:01:27 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-353 This is very cool until Google changes the name of your js file and your calendar goes blank. I guess that this would happen even if you embed the way they tell you to. strange. This is very cool until Google changes the name of your js file and your calendar goes blank. I guess that this would happen even if you embed the way they tell you to. strange.

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by Evan http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-351 Evan Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:27:37 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-351 Ditto. It'll pull a certain chunk of events, but if you navigate into the past or future, it won't load any more. In my case it was a couple month's worth. This is because the copy of the iframe source saved on the hosting site is a static snapshot of events that were loaded when the wget was run. Ditto. It’ll pull a certain chunk of events, but if you navigate into the past or future, it won’t load any more. In my case it was a couple month’s worth. This is because the copy of the iframe source saved on the hosting site is a static snapshot of events that were loaded when the wget was run.

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by Blake http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-343 Blake Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:17:49 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-343 Nice explanation. It worked well for me, I was able to format that plain-Jane title on the calendar to match my site. Thank you for taking the time to post this. Nice explanation. It worked well for me, I was able to format that plain-Jane title on the calendar to match my site. Thank you for taking the time to post this.

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by Mike http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-336 Mike Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:41:29 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-336 Thanks for the code, tested this and got it working eventually but found that the initial iframe call only loads the first 5 weeks of events. Clicking the navigation links obviously changes the google output but doesn't refresh the custom_calendar.php page. I suspect you would need to make changes to the javascript file used by Google to update your own pages too. I gave up at this point as it wasn't worth the extra time. Thanks for the code, tested this and got it working eventually but found that the initial iframe call only loads the first 5 weeks of events. Clicking the navigation links obviously changes the google output but doesn’t refresh the custom_calendar.php page. I suspect you would need to make changes to the javascript file used by Google to update your own pages too.
I gave up at this point as it wasn’t worth the extra time.

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by ksvendsboe http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-334 ksvendsboe Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:57:33 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-334 Genius. THANK YOU!!! Genius. THANK YOU!!!

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by Jacob Krekura.com http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-333 Jacob Krekura.com Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:04:51 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-333 Worked like a charm. Thanks! Worked like a charm. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Customising an embedded google calendar by Atisha http://iamhigham.com/2011/01/customising-an-embedded-google-calendar/#comment-331 Atisha Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:18:19 +0000 http://iamhigham.com/?p=60#comment-331 Because of the way that Google outputs the calendar entries, it puts them into a table. In some cases, when one of the items in that table becomes higher than one line (because of our enabling word-wrapping), the entire row that it's in becomes higher than it needs to be. This creates the appearance of blank lines underneath some of the entries. There is no way to work around this issue since it's based on how Google exports the calendar information. It is nice to be able to display multiple lines, however, it's just a bit of a shame that the formatting doesn't come out more cleanly. Because of the way that Google outputs the calendar entries, it puts them into a table. In some cases, when one of the items in that table becomes higher than one line (because of our enabling word-wrapping), the entire row that it’s in becomes higher than it needs to be. This creates the appearance of blank lines underneath some of the entries. There is no way to work around this issue since it’s based on how Google exports the calendar information.

It is nice to be able to display multiple lines, however, it’s just a bit of a shame that the formatting doesn’t come out more cleanly.

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