Flower Reminder

Flower Reminder is the simple way to surprise your partner with some flowers by creating random entries in your Google calendar. For example, if you want to surprise you partner with flowers two times within three months for the complete year, you can use Flower Reminder to create these events in you Google calendar.

Requirements

Things you need to use Flower Reminder.

• A Google developer account
• A Google calendar (I used a dedicated one)
• Some machine which runs PHP, git, composer, etc. to run the application

Installation

Download Flower Reminder and install it

1. Download the latest version of Flower Reminder
2. Run composer install -o --no-dev
3. Run the application with: php bin/flower-reminder

Prepare the Google developer account

1. Goto https://console.developers.google.com and login with your credentials
2. Create a new project
3. Activate the Google Calendar API
4. Select the API and create new credentials for it (Select Application data and that you don't use GCE, GKE, etc)
5. Add a name for the service account
6. Copy the email address which will be generated below the service id
7. Add the role owner to the service account
8. Open the new generated service account by clicking on the email
9. Got to the keys tab and generate a new json key
10. Save the new key-file.json to flower-reminder/config/

The most difficult part is now done. In the next step we connect the new developer project with a new calendar.

Prepare Google Calendar

1. Goto https://calendar.google.com/ and login with your credentials
2. Goto to the Settings Menu and create a new calendar (I called mine Flower Reminder)
3. Share the new calendar with the generated service account id email address you copied in step 6 of the Google developer account creation and assign the privileges to edit events

With that done, every application which has the key-file.json can now create entries in your new shared calendar. Last not least we will configure some details in Flower Reminder so that the new calendar entries look and behave like we expected them to do.

Prepare the Flower Reminder by editing the parameter.xml

1. service_account_file : The name of the key-file.json
2. calendar_event_msg : The event name which is displayed in the calendar
3. calendar_event_msg_description : The event description
4. calendar_event_starttime : The start time of the event hh:mm:ss
5. calendar_event_endtime : The end time of the event hh:mm:ss
6. calendar_event_reminder_mail : The reminder e-mail address
7. calendar_event_reminder_in_minutes : The time the event will be announced

That's it. The configuration is done and Flower Reminder is ready to go.

Usage

The list command

Use the list command to get the calendar id of the prepared Google Calendar

 php bin/flower-reminder reminder:calendar:list
 ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------ 
  Calendar          id                                                    
 ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------ 
  Flower Reminder   [email protected]  
 ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------

The dummy command

Use the dummy command to verify the function of the flower reminder and the communication with Google. It will generate a calendar event on November 3rd 10am-10:25am for the current year

 php bin/flower-reminder reminder:calendar:create:dummy [email protected]
 
 [OK] Event with id 94hsajdfjksdfkfggnvk created     

The random command

Use the random command to create random events in your Google calendar based on the default settings which are: Two reminder in three months, four times in row ( aka. one year).

You can customize several settings like start date, intervals, etc. by using the following options.

Options:
      --startdate[=STARTDATE]                                        The start date for the random event generation (default: now) [default: "2016-10-16 22:34:40"]
      --interval-in-months[=INTERVAL-IN-MONTHS]                      The count of months for one interval (defalut: 3) [default: 3]
      --remindings-per-interval[=REMINDINGS-PER-INTERVALL]           The count of reminder per interval (default: 2) [default: 2]
      --intervals[=INTERVALS]                                        The loop of intervals (default: 4) [default: 4]
      --multiple-reminders-per-month[=MULTIPLE-REMINDERS-PER-MONTH]  Allow multiple reminder in a single month (default: 0) [default: 0]

 php bin/flower-reminder reminder:calendar:create:random [email protected]
 
  ! [NOTE] Creating random events                                                                                        
 
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  ! [NOTE] Listing events                                                                                                
 
  ---------------------------- --------------- 
   Event Id                     Calendar Date  
  ---------------------------- --------------- 
   3375oij0eurngq9ii01hmvlv5g   2016-10-24     
   peb90kebecdhsrtr6siaafv4f4   2016-12-02     
   t4hvp94r2tu0jhu670c6oeri1o   2017-01-23     
   cca0podk0goi2u6kk3u9hd8l28   2017-03-23     
   pmc92icqg9t12nirrqfdk7ac04   2017-05-22     
   uiavo9ju71c5ui7j5moqcopmn0   2017-06-19     
   vt9te7qle5cafel5glugj1mobg   2017-07-31     
   s7r468qfna1886ue7l3olh3hio   2017-08-06     
  ---------------------------- --------------- 
 
                                                                                                                         
  [OK] Events created                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                         

Testing

1. Run composer install
2. Run php vendor/bin/phpunit tests/