Hello Thomas, On Saturday, February 26, 2011 4:47:10 AM UTC-8, Thomas wrote: > > > 1. Currently I know there is 2 ways for me to call the API, either via low > level REST call, or through a PHP client library. Which is the recommended > way? My thoughts are the latter method is more productive as I don't have to > deal with the low level HTTP connection and decoding the REST response. > > I never actually used the Zend framework but from what I've read, I would advise you to try using it first since, as you said, that will remove the overhead of having to build and decode the requests and responses.
> 2. I noticed Google does not have an official client library for PHP. The > only one that I found out from Google page is distributed as part of Zend > framework. Can anyone who used this before share some experience here? How > usable is the library? Does it support Google Contacts? > > There seem to be some documentation and examples on their website: http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Gdata_Contacts+-+Darien+Hager > 3. The OAuth process sounds quite straightforward to me conceptually, but > handling the process on the programming level seems a bit daunting and > tedious. Is there any good PHP class library for facilitating the OAuth > process? > > The Zend framework has support for OAuth on Google's API and we actually have some documentation on how to set it up: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/auth/oauth.html#Examples I hope this helped! Best, Alain -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" 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://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html
