Ehsanul Haque

New functionality for Grab Yahoo

I have added a new functionality for the Grab Yahoo class. Soon after I released the patch, I figured out that I could add this new functionality which did not take me much time to implement. This new feature will allow you to grab your Yahoo! Calendar in an array format.

Using Yahoo’s calendar export feature, I grab the CSV file and parse it to form an array. This was a very simple addition as it uses same method as Address Book parsing. Only thing that was different was the way I had to parse the CSV, which Yahoo creates for Outlook. I don’t have any further plan to upgrade this class but do have other plans to build similar web service based classes.

Please download the latest version of grab yahoo class (v.1.3) here.

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Thank you.

Patch for Grab Yahoo class released

Last week suddenly my Grab Yahoo class stopped working for Address Book section. After Mr Mandy Singh reported the bug on phpclasses.org discussion board I started digging to resolve the issue.

When requesting the address book CSV from Yahoo a value for the key “crumb” is sent in the query string. Earlier Yahoo never checked for the validity of the variable but they have changed the way it is used. Now they check if the value for “crumb” is valid or not. As my script was using a predefined value and it has expired, Yahoo server could not validate. Yahoo was showing an error stating “Invalid or missing crumb”.

I modified my class so that it first loads the page from where request for the CSV is made. From the source of the page, it locates the latest value for crumb assigned by Yahoo and uses that value to send request for the address book CSV file. It is now working as expected. If you find any bug please report it on phpclasses.org discussion board.

Please download the latest version of Grab Yahoo class (v. 1.2.1) here.

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Thank you.