steenhansen / php-google-api-example

Deprecated - Read/write from/to Google Sheets and read from Google Docs with PHP.

This code does not work anymore. And https://google-api-example.herokuapp.com has been terminated.

When this program was first developed, websites did not need to go through an approval process to grant read/write access to password protected Google Docs and sheets. An updating Heroku server caused the Google credentials to be invalidated.

Basically, a PHP site used to use a Google spreadsheet to authorize who could log into a PHP program, and what system rights the user has access to.

For instance, [email protected], can log in and view general information. He can also view the 'Docs Manual' whereas [email protected] cannot.

The PHP program could change the values in the Google spreadsheet, so as to delete or change a user's name. But the PHP program would never know any passwords.

Google API calls Example in PHP:

Access live example

Automatically sign in with 'guest_account' of [email protected]
https://google-api-example.herokuapp.com/guestSignIn.php

Explanations and links to Google doc and sheet used
https://google-api-example.herokuapp.com/index.html

Sign in with a "real" Google account that exists in the Google sheet of users
https://google-api-example.herokuapp.com/login.php

Sign in via URL
https://google-api-example.herokuapp.com/[email protected]

The locked but visible Google sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vhce-ziBi6wneqJrxd7Zhyqth8ZLHMJHot1wxgK_T7k/edit#gid=0 that is read and written to.

Information

Sheet/Document/Email/Authorization Classes

php-google-api-example/Google_Api/

To install composer libraries

php-google-api-example/ composer install

To enable Google credentials

Copy google-sample files to google-account directory

To test

php-google-api-example/  php tests/call_tests.php