I asked chatGPT if it is possible to embed google calendar in a webpage such that people can click on specific days and schedule appointments, and the following is the recipe it gave me, and before I go cooking I thought I’d double check with a human. What do you think? Should I follow these steps:
Backend Setup: You would need a backend server to handle appointment scheduling. This could be built using a server-side language like Node.js, Python, PHP, etc., along with a database to store appointment information.
API Endpoint: Create an API endpoint on your backend server to receive appointment requests from the frontend.
Frontend Integration: On your webpage where the Google Calendar is embedded, you would need to implement frontend functionality to allow users to select a day on the calendar and schedule appointments.
User Interface: Design a user interface that allows users to interact with the calendar and input appointment details (such as time, duration, description, etc.).
Form Submission: When a user selects a day and inputs appointment details, the frontend code would send a request to your backend API endpoint with the appointment information.
Backend Processing: Your backend server would receive the appointment request, validate the input, and store the appointment details in your database.
Confirmation: Provide feedback to the user confirming that their appointment has been scheduled successfully.
Integration with Google Calendar: Optionally, you could integrate your backend with the Google Calendar API to automatically add scheduled appointments to your Google Calendar.
Is Google Calendar a requirement? Or do you mean a calendar? People often think they have the best solution for a requirement and then ask for help with the solution. Are you sure that all your users use Google Calendar?
I think people around here would prefer that you not post a response from ChatGPT. It is better to ask the question here without the response from ChatGPT. What is the exact question you asked ChatGPT?
That seems stupid to me. I assume that your intent is to have appointments stored by Google Calendar.
Again, I assume that your intent is to have Google Calendar do that.
No, and I’m not a fan of google either. My thought process behind asking about google calendar is its accessibility across different platforms. Thank you for asking.
No, this is an assumption based on my personal interactions.
Yes my love, I will skip ChatGPT hereon. The exact question I would like help and guidance on is about implementing a calendar on my website which will appear on the webpages that I desire and then can be used by the visitor to securely schedule appointments, receive appointment confirmation, make a payments, and receive receipts. Beyond that, I am not sure what the securest and most efficient options are.
I was also wondering why ChatGPT is instructing to setup a database server, since if I would be using google calendar, the google calendar database server would be used anyway? Or have I misunderstood you and ChatGPT?
I am not an expert. I do not have much experience actually doing those things. I have however been programming for a long time.
I can understand hoping to use Google Calendar. Probably it would be too much work to customize it for your purposes. That is my guess. I think it would be better to create your own database. You could have a table that uses Julian days. There are probably articles and sample code that would help. If you can find a way for the customer (patient or whatever) to add an appointment to their personal calendar automatically then I think they will very much appreciate it.
Payments and related activities such as receipts would require other software, plugins or something like that. Perhaps redirecting to some other service. I think you need to research that separately.