"Christmas is nigh, and the PHP Advent Calendar rides again! In line with tradition, we've swapped the chocolates for doses of wisdom from people in the PHP community who've kindly donated their thoughts and tips to see us through the coming year." With big names in the already published list like Cal Evans, Matthew O'Phinney, Lorna Mitchell, Elizabeth Naramore, and another 25 issues coming up, you really can't miss this years edition of the PHP Advent Calendar, brought to us by Chris Shiflett and Sean Coates. Wether you want to follow the articles on Twitter, or rather subscribe to the feed, you sure will give the upcoming year a headstart with all the wisdom written down in these daily articles. Curious? Read the already posted articles on the PHP Advent Calendar 2008 website. […]

A couple of weeks ago, Google jumped into the online calendar space by launching Google Calendar (um, beta). The application is chock-full of Ajaxy goodness and plenty of features, but I'm here to talk about what you can do with your calendar data behind the scenes. Using some handy tools from the Swiss Army Knife that is the Zend Framework, I'll show you how to pull data from your Google Calendar into your site. Just for kicks, I'll also throw in a caching layer to keep things fast and reduce the network traffic between your server and Google. […]