I'll share my code that I finally got to work. I'm using a front end web app to get the initial authorization and then passing that code to a php web service to store in the dbase for later use.
<?php
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
/**
class to provide google calendar api functions.
returns information to mobile web app in json format
**/
class Calendar
{
private $client;
private $clientsecretgoogle = '{input secret here}';
private $clientIDgoogle = '{input client ID here}';
private $objDatabase;
private $queryParams;
private $params;
public function __construct($params)
{
$this->client = new Google_Client();
$this->client->setClientId($this->clientIDgoogle);
$this->client->setClientSecret($this->clientsecretgoogle);
$this->client->setAccessType('offline'); //this seems to be important for refresh tokens to update
$this->objDatabase = new Database();//connect to dbase
$this->params=$params;
}
public function getAuthorizationRefreshTokensGoogle($authCode, $userID)
{
/*
Get access_token and refresh token from returned auth code
I'm getting this on the front end and then storing in dbase table
Could have used the basic php library here but this worked so I stuck with it
*/
$oauth_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token?code=' . $authCode . '&client_secret=' . $this->clientsecretgoogle . '&client_id=' . $this->clientIDgoogle . '&redirect_uri=postmessage&grant_type=authorization_code';
//using curl
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $oauth_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$return = json_decode($return);
// You can dump the vars to see the object
//var_dump($return);
//insert into table for later retrieval
$strSQL = "insert ignore into tbloauth(oauth_usr_id,oauth_vendor,oauth_token,oauth_refresh_token,oauth_token_expire)VALUES
(?,?,?,?,?)";
//check for existence of refresh token in response
//if not there then replace only the access_token
//if there then replace access, refresh
if(!$return->refresh_token){
$strSQL .= "ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE oauth_token=VALUES(oauth_token), oauth_token_expire=VALUES(oauth_token_expire)";
}else{
$strSQL .= "ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE oauth_token=VALUES(oauth_token),oauth_refresh_token=VALUES(oauth_refresh_token), oauth_token_expire=VALUES(oauth_token_expire)";
}
//translate expire time NOW + 3600
$expire = (time() + $return->expires_in);
if (!$return->refresh_token) {
$return->refresh_token = '';
}
$this->queryParams = array($userID, 'google', $return->access_token, $return->refresh_token, $expire);
$this->objDatabase->insertQuery($strSQL, $this->queryParams);
//you should now have a record now containing the access_token,refresh token, expire date
}
/*
List calendars
*/
function listCalendarsGoogle()
{
//1. Get tokens from database for the current user
$result=$this->getUserAccessToken($this->params['usr_id'],'google');
//2. Set access token with returned results
$this->client->setAccessToken(json_encode($result[0]));
//check for expired token and refresh if necessary
if($this->client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
$this->client->refreshToken($result[0]['oauth_refresh_token']);
$access_token = $this->client->getAccessToken();
$strSQL="update tbloauth set oauth_token=? where oauth_vendor='google' and oauth_usr_id=? limit 1";
$this->queryParams=array($access_token,$this->params['usr_id']);
$this->objDatabase->updateQuery($strSQL,$this->queryParams);
}
//3.init calendar
$calendar = new Google_Service_Calendar($this->client);
//4. list calendars of primary
$calendarList = $calendar->calendarList->listCalendarList('primary');
return json_encode($calendarList);
}
/**
get access token for vendor(google in this case) using usr_id of user
which is passed to the class from the web app
*/
public function getUserAccessToken($usr_id,$vendor){
$strSQL="select tbloauth.*,oauth_token as access_token,oauth_refresh_token as refresh_token from tbloauth where oauth_usr_id=? and oauth_vendor=? ";
$this->queryParams=array($usr_id,$vendor);
//echo $this->objDatabase->parms($strSQL,$this->queryParams);
$aResult=$this->objDatabase->selectQuery($strSQL,$this->queryParams);
$aResult[0]['client_id']=$this->clientIDgoogle;
$aResult[0]['client_secret']=$this->clientsecretgoogle;
return $aResult;
}
/**
Insert Event into google using event info posted by web app
*/
public function insertEventGoogle(){
$result=$this->getUserAccessToken($this->params['usr_id'],'google');
$this->client->setAccessToken(json_encode($result[0]));
//check if expired
//if expired then fetch new token with current token
//update dbase with new token
//this would be cleaner separated into another method
//called before each list or insert calendar function
if($this->client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {
$this->client->refreshToken($result[0]['oauth_refresh_token']);
$access_token = $this->client->getAccessToken();
$strSQL="update tbloauth set oauth_token=? where oauth_vendor='google' and oauth_usr_id=? limit 1";
$this->queryParams=array($access_token,$this->params['usr_id']);
$this->objDatabase->updateQuery($strSQL,$this->queryParams);
}
//init calendar
$calendar = new Google_Service_Calendar($this->client);
//event info
$event = new Google_Service_Calendar_Event(array(
'summary' => $this->params['event_name'],
'location' => $this->params['event_location'],
'description' => $this->params['event_desc'],
'start' => array(
'dateTime' => date(DATE_ISO8601, strtotime($this->params['event_start_date'].' '.$this->params['event_start_time'])),
'timeZone' => 'America/New_York',
),
'end' => array(
'dateTime' => date(DATE_ISO8601, strtotime($this->params['event_end_date'].' '.$this->params['event_end_time'])),
'timeZone' => 'America/New_York',
),
'reminders' => array(
'useDefault' => FALSE,
'overrides' => array(
array('method' => 'email', 'minutes' => 24 * 60),
array('method' => 'popup', 'minutes' => 10),
),
),
));
//calendar id - default primary
$calendarId = 'primary';
//insert event
$event = $calendar->events->insert($calendarId, $event);
//return confirm msg
$msg=array('msg'=>'Event Created: '.$this->params['event_name']);
return json_encode($msg);
}
}
Hope that helps someone. The documentation was difficult to sort through.
