In this new tutorial posted to his site Freek Van der Herten shows you how to connect your application to the Google Calendar API, complete with screenshots for a step-by-step process.

For a project I’m working on I needed to interact with a Google Calendar. I’ve your ever worked with some API’s by Google then you know their documentation can be very confusing. It’s not that they don’t have documentation, but code examples of common use cases are simply not present. You must wade through a lot of pages to learn basic things such as how to make an authorized request let alone how to fetch calendar events. In this post I’d like to explain in a human readable way how setup and use the Google Calendar API.

He starts on the Google side with the setup of the application and getting the credentials you'll need for the connection. Next up is setting up the calendar itself and the permissions to allow access to all event information. The post then finishes with a PHP example using the "google/apiclient" library to make the Calendar connection and get all events currently on the calendar. As a bonus he also points out a library he's creating to make it easier to work with events in Laravel-based applications.