Using php to add an all days event in Google Calendar

Following example is “Creating single-occurrence events” from Google web site.

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function createEvent ($client, $title = 'Tennis with Beth',
    $desc='Meet for a quick lesson', $where = 'On the courts',
    $startDate = '2008-01-20', $startTime = '10:00',
    $endDate = '2008-01-20', $endTime = '11:00', $tzOffset = '-08')
{
  $gdataCal = new Zend_Gdata_Calendar($client);
  $newEvent = $gdataCal->newEventEntry();
 
  $newEvent->title = $gdataCal->newTitle($title);
  $newEvent->where = array($gdataCal->newWhere($where));
  $newEvent->content = $gdataCal->newContent("$desc");
 
  $when = $gdataCal->newWhen();
  $when->startTime = "{$startDate}T{$startTime}:00.000{$tzOffset}:00";
  $when->endTime = "{$endDate}T{$endTime}:00.000{$tzOffset}:00";
  $newEvent->when = array($when);
 
  // Upload the event to the calendar server
  // A copy of the event as it is recorded on the server is returned
  $createdEvent = $gdataCal->insertEvent($newEvent);
  return $createdEvent->id->text;
}
 
createEvent($client, 'New Years Party',
    'Ring in the new year with Kim and I',
    'Our house', 
    '2006-12-31', '22:00', '2007-01-01', '03:00', '-08' );

How about an all day event? From above example, I can’t simply change start time and end time fields to empty string. It will fail.

So, just modified few lines of createEvent function. Like below :

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function createEvent ($client, $title = 'Tennis with Beth',
    $desc='Meet for a quick lesson', $where = 'On the courts',
    $startDate = '2008-01-20', $startTime = '10:00',
    $endDate = '2008-01-20', $endTime = '11:00', $tzOffset = '-08')
{
  $gdataCal = new Zend_Gdata_Calendar($client);
  $newEvent = $gdataCal->newEventEntry();
 
  $newEvent->title = $gdataCal->newTitle($title);
  $newEvent->where = array($gdataCal->newWhere($where));
  $newEvent->content = $gdataCal->newContent("$desc");
 
  $when = $gdataCal->newWhen();
 
  if ($startTime != "") {
    $when->startTime = "{$startDate}T{$startTime}:00.000{$tzOffset}:00";
  } else {
    $when->startTime = "{$startDate}";
  }
  if ($endTime != "") {
    $when->endTime = "{$endDate}T{$endTime}:00.000{$tzOffset}:00";
  } else {
    list($yy, $mm, $dd) = explode('-', $endDate);
    $newdate = mktime(0, 0, 0, $mm, $dd + 1, $yy);
    $endDate = date('Y-m-d', $newdate);
    $when->endTime = "{$endDate}";
  }
  $newEntry->when = array($when);
 
  // Upload the event to the calendar server
  // A copy of the event as it is recorded on the server is returned
  $createdEvent = $gdataCal->insertEvent($newEvent);
  return $createdEvent->id->text;
}
 
createEvent($client, 'New Years Party',
    'Ring in the new year with Kim and I',
    'Our house', 
    '2006-12-31', '', '2007-01-01', '', '' );

After run it, that event will be updated on 12/31/2006 and 1/1/2007.

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