Comments on: Google Gadgets 101 http://www.jasoose.com/2006/07/03/google-gadgets-101/ Normal is a variable. Bitching is a constant. Sun, 20 May 2012 05:44:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Tom Weishaar http://www.jasoose.com/2006/07/03/google-gadgets-101/#comment-52 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:22:47 +0000 http://www.jasoose.com/2006/07/03/google-gadgets-101/#comment-52 Google has now made it possible for <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/gadgets/guide2.html#Libs" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">URL-type gadgets to access Google's Javascript functions</a>. It's a little convoluted. When Google calls your URL, it adds an <i>&lib=</i> with a partial URL pointing to their Javascript library. Your gadget's URL has to then respond by converting the passed information into a <i><script...></i> statement, which it inserts into the code of your gadget before passing it back to Google. Obviously this means your gadget's URL can't be a plain HTML page, but has to be something that you can program, like PHP. Google's docs, fortunately, include the PHP code to do this. Google has now made it possible for URL-type gadgets to access Google's Javascript functions.

It's a little convoluted. When Google calls your URL, it adds an &lib= with a partial URL pointing to their Javascript library. Your gadget's URL has to then respond by converting the passed information into a <script…> statement, which it inserts into the code of your gadget before passing it back to Google. Obviously this means your gadget's URL can't be a plain HTML page, but has to be something that you can program, like PHP.

Google's docs, fortunately, include the PHP code to do this.

]]> by: rolandog http://www.jasoose.com/2006/07/03/google-gadgets-101/#comment-34 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:18:58 +0000 http://www.jasoose.com/2006/07/03/google-gadgets-101/#comment-34 Great writeup. If only I had been able to learn from your article instead of by trial and error! Great writeup. If only I had been able to learn from your article instead of by trial and error!

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