Creates a new poll with the Doodle API

doodleapi.php

<?php

$api = new DoodleAPI();

$api->createPoll(array(
   'title' => 'Test Poll',
   'description' => 'Test Description',
   'fromName' => 'David Patierno',
   'fromEmail' => 'dmpatierno@gmail.com',
   'dates' => array(
      '2011-07-08',
      '2011-07-09',
      '2011-07-10',
      '2011-07-11'
   )
));

class DoodleAPI {
   public function createPoll($options) {
      $dates = "";
      foreach ($options['dates'] as $date)
         $dates .= <<<EOT
      <option date="{$date}" />
EOT;

      $xml = <<<EOT
<poll xmlns="http://doodle.com/xsd1">
   <type>DATE</type>
   <hidden>false</hidden>
   <levels>2</levels>
   <title>{$options['title']}</title>
   <description>{$options['description']}</description>
   <initiator>
      <name>{$options['fromName']}</name>
      <email>{$options['fromEmail']}</email>
   </initiator>
   <options>
      {$dates}
   </options>
</poll>
EOT;

      $poll = $this->API("polls", $xml);
      echo "http://doodle-test.com/{$poll}\n";
   }

   private function API($action, $xml) {
      //$ch = curl_init("https://doodle.com/api1/{$action}");
      $ch = curl_init("http://doodle-test.com/api1WithoutAccessControl/{$action}");

      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: application/xml"));
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);

      $results = curl_exec($ch);
      $code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); 
      curl_close($ch);

      // Check status code and parse doodle poll id
      if ($code == 201 && preg_match("/Content-Location: (\w+)/", $results, $m))
         return $m[1];

      return false;
   }
}

Too bad they shut it down.

@eyecatchup: please have a look at this project: https://github.com/xperseguers/doodle_client, currently not providing creation of doodle but could easily be done.

Thank you. We have used it on our application www.20x.io