Question

I’m trying to import an event into my Google Calendar account, however my code fails to import due to an error: Cannot use object of type Event as array this appears in line 2149 in my script which is located here:

$exported_events = array();
foreach($events as $event_id => $event)
{
    $event = new Event();
    $event->setSummary($event->location);
    $event->setLocation($event->location);

    $start = new EventDateTime();
    $start->setDateTime($event['starts']); // Line 2149
    $event->setStart($start);

    $end = new EventDateTime();
    $end->setDateTime((object) $event['ends']);
    $event->setEnd($end);

    $attendees = array();
    foreach($event['people'] as $i => $person)
    {
        $attendee = new EventAttendee();
        $attendee->setEmail($person->email);

        $attendees[] = $attendee;

        $event->attendees = $attendees;
    }

    $createdEvent = $service->events->insert('primary', $event);

    $calendar_event_id = $createdEvent->getId();

    if(!is_null($calendar_event_id))
    {
        $exported_events[] = $event_id; 
    }
}

Now, as my foreach loop walks over the $events array, it threw an error with $event['location'] so I changed it to $event->location, now it throws an error on line 2149 which is an array item (the array is printed below the page) and if I change it to $event->starts it will throw me this error: Undefined property: Event::$starts even if I put (object) $event['starts'] it will still won’t work.

How can I pass it to make it work? var_dump($event['starts']) returns as a string.

The array of per each $event:

Array
(
    [location] => Some location in the US
    [starts] => 2012-03-13T10:00:00
    [ends] => 2012-03-13T14:00:00
    [people] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Joan Uton
                    [email] => [e-mail]
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Jack Sparrow
                    [email] => [e-mail]
                )

            [2] => Array
                (
                    [name] => Barack Obama
                    [email] => [e-mail]
                )

        )

)

Answer 1

It seems as you are using two types of $event. One as an array and one as an object.

foreach($events as $event_id => $event) // $event is array
//...
$event = new Event();                   // array is overwritten by new object

Refactor by giving one type a different name.