I've been playing with the hours options in LibCal. I especially like being
able to pull out today's hours so easily. LibCal gives you options to do
this using HTML (iframe), JavaScript, JSON, or RSS.
HTML and JavaScript both format the output in a table, which is probably
desirable if you have multiple locations, but maybe less good if you have
one location only. That made me want to look into rolling my own solution
using the JSON option.
The problem is that to avoid XSS vulnerabilities, you can't use plain JSON,
but must instead use JSONP, which is NOT an option being offered by LibCal
(if anybody knows otherwise, I'd appreciate the information).
So, my solution was to write a meatball PHP script that wraps the JSON in a
JSONP callback. I wish I didn't have to do the extra server hop, but it
works. Here's my demo.
http://codepen.io/tomkeays/pen/EaKrgg/?editors=101
Now, I wish there was a JSON option to display a week's worth of hours for
a given location instead of just the one day's worth.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Heidi Steiner Burkhardt <
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>
> Hi Mary,
>
> You mentioned LibCal and I do not think anyone else has addressed this
> yet...you can use the Hours module for one location with the free version
> <http://www.springshare.com/free.html>. The one location piece is the only
> limitation...so it should work for you if you just need it for one
> library's hours. It is what we use on our website
> <http://academics.norwich.edu/library/about/hours/>. You can set the hours
> for the whole year (using templates and exceptions) and then do not have to
> worry about it. There are a few different widget/API options
> <http://help.springshare.com/usinghourslc/widgetapi>.
>
> All best,
> Heidi
>
> --
> Heidi Steiner Burkhardt
> Head of Digital Services
> Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University
> 158 Harmon Dr. Northfield, Vermont
> 802.485.2171
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Mary E. Hanlin <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I know this has been covered a bit here, but I have a rather exigent
> > conundrum, and I'm hoping to figure out the best/easiest solution.
> > Yesterday, the script to hour library hours (on our front page) which
> pulls
> > from Google calendar stopped working ("Error at line undefined in
> > undefined[!]" - the exclamation point is mine; it seemed like it needed
> > one.)
> >
> > Basically, the code came from a site that walked one through how to call
> > daily hours (javascript) using Google's V2 API, but the V2 is fully
> > deprecated (as I abruptly discovered), and I need to figure out another
> > solution. (I haven't been able to find similar documentation for V3's
> API.)
> >
> > Some constraints: 1. Our IT will not support php. We are an .NET shop
> > with IIS servers. 2. We may not have the dough to pay for something like
> > LibCal which seems to me the easiest solution. 3. I'm semi-new to this
> > "Internets/webmaster" thing, and really only know front-end coding, so a
> > solution involving something like .NET, Python, etc. would have to have,
> > "How to make a peanut butter sandwich," kind of documentation.
> >
> > Right now, I've just manually coded our hours, which is fine until
> > Saturday when our hours change, and I'm not here (hopefully). I will be
> > super grateful for insight or knowledge.
> >
> > Mary.
> >
> > Mary Hanlin
> > Electronic Resources and Web Librarian
> > J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
> > Phone:804.523.5323
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> >
>
