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I managed to put some extra functionalities to the admin area of the Bikini Test. Now they can directly published their events to Upcoming.org (that belongs to Y!).

There is two (not sexy) screenshots of it, it’s a little bit of Ajax and some glue code.

• Listing the month entries
• Editing the entry

An sample code of how this works (I’ve wrote some classes in PHP4 for this purpose). You can read before the Token-based Authentication of the Upcoming API.

<?php # -*- coding: utf8 -*-
// http://upcoming.org/services/api/keygen.php
$api_key = '##########';
// http://upcoming.org/services/auth/?api_key=<API_KEY>
$frob = '###.....###';

include(dirname(__FILE__).'/upcoming.lib.php');
$upcoming =& new Upcoming($api_key, $frob);
$upcoming->authGetToken();
?>
<h1>Agenda</h1>
<dl>
<?php
// Bikini Test
$venue =& new Venue();
$venue->id = 37518;
// an adapted event.search
$events = $upcoming->eventSearchByVenue($venue);
foreach($events as $event) {
?>
  <dt>
    <a href="<?= $event->url ?>">
      <?= $event->name; ?>
    </a>
  </dt>
  <dd>
    <?= $event->description; ?>
  </dd>
<?php
}
?>
</dl>

This will show the events of the Bikini Test Venue. It’s really easy and powerful. The library isn’t complete enough to decently authorize me to publish it here and now. If you are interested by it, contact me.

The API was painful and sometimes buggy but I think that in a couple of month it gonna be strong enough to avoid the strange behaviours I’ve met. So, “Is Upcoming ready for you?” The answer is no if you have business in mind, not yet, but yes if it’s for the fun.