I suggest that you have a look at the code in the demos directory of the Zend code that you can download.. These are working examples which you can modify to see what they do. Try modifying the queries in various ways and printing out different fields from a query.
It is also useful if you can use a tool like curl to download XML that corresponds to what you are doing with the API. That way you can build an understanding of how the parameters in the code map onto the raw XML. You need to understand REST in order to understand the Google documentation; looking at the XML returned from various urls can teach you about that and give you some understanding of what the language API is doing. The Zend documents, also included in download can point the way, but I find it easier just to refer to the Zend source code. That's a long way of saying that there isn't really a beginner's guide that I know of. The Data APIs are built from a number of pieces: HTTP, REST, XML, Atom, and Atom Pub, plus the particularities of each individual language. A beginner's guide would be pretty long and I'm not sure that the market is that large. Hope that helps, Ray On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:30 AM, culp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I'm a beginner to working with the Data API's. Whilst i understand > PHP & XML and have a passing knowledge of HTTP and ATOM I find the > guides published by Google too advanced for me. Can anyone advise me > of a "beginners guide" or somekind of a study framework that will give > me the skills to use the API's > > Thanks > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
