Ed's World » google http://www.jellard.co.uk Bringing data into real life in a meaningful way Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:26:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Handwritten post-it notes generated from Google Calendar http://www.jellard.co.uk/2010/02/handwritten-post-it-notes-generated-from-google-calendar/ http://www.jellard.co.uk/2010/02/handwritten-post-it-notes-generated-from-google-calendar/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:44:26 +0000 Ed http://www.jellard.co.uk/?p=186 Scouts I’ve recently created a new website for my scout group, Highfield Scouts, and have put up a google calendar. More out of a challenge than a real need, I’ve knocked up a script that uses the Google Data API for PHP to query my calendar feed, grab the next event, and make a fake handwritten postit note. The script runs every hour to keep the images up to date.

I’ve made a little markup system so that the whole postit can be a link, and the time and location can be overridden (child protection malarky – can’t just put a time and location for some things!)

It’s all written in PHP, using the GD graphics features to put the text on a background image. If you’re interested in the code, comment, and I’ll give it to you (if you link to me!)

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