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add iCalendar to CGCalendar

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Hello, so here as another simple trick to do...


UDT:    addEvent

 
 
 $filename="uploads/calendarEvents/".$params['EventName'].".ics";
 
 if(file_exists($filename)){
 
 }else{
 if(!file_exists("uploads/calendarEvents/")){
 mkdir("uploads/calendarEvents/", 0777);
 }
  $ourFileName = $filename;
  $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
  fclose($ourFileHandle);
 $DESCRIPTION=mysql_real_escape_string ($params['DESCRIPTION']);
 $event="BEGIN:VCALENDAR
 PRODID:-//NCITA//northcentralidaho.org 1.0//EN
 VERSION:1.0
 BEGIN:VEVENT
 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
 TZID:US-Pacific
 LAST-MODIFIED:19870101T000000Z
 TZURL:http://zones.stds_r_us.net/tz/US-Pacific
 BEGIN:STANDARD
 DTSTART:20071104T020000
 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=11
 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
 TZOFFSETTO:-0800
 TZNAME:PST
 END:STANDARD
 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
 DTSTART:20070311T020000
 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=3
 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
 TZOFFSETTO:-0700
 TZNAME:PDT
 END:DAYLIGHT
 END:VTIMEZONE
 URL:http://www.northcentralidaho.org
 ORGANIZER:MAILTO:info@northcentralidaho.info
 DTSTART;TZID=US-Pacific:".$params['DTSTART']."
 DTEND;TZID=US-Pacific:".$params['DTEND']."
 LOCATION:".$params['LOCATION']."
 SUMMARY:".$params['SUMMARY']."
 SEQUENCE:0
 UID:1
 CATEGORIES:".$params['CATEGORIES']."
 DESCRIPTION:".$DESCRIPTION."
 END:VEVENT
 END:VCALENDAR
 ";
 
  // GET LENGTH, AND STORE DATA TO OUR SERVER (OR DATA BASE)
 $len = strlen($event);
 $chk = file_put_contents($filename, $event);
 
 // TEST FOR SUCCESSFUL STORAGE
  if ($len!=$chk) die("LENGTH MISMATCH");
 }
 echo '<a href="'.$filename.'" target="_blank">'.$params['linktext'].'</a>';
 
 

In the cal template

 {assign var=date_start value=$event.event_date_start|replace:" ":"-"}
 {assign var=EName value=$event.event_title|replace:"/":""|replace:" ":"-"|replace:"’":""}
 {assign var=Name value="$date_start-$EName"}
 {assign var=DTSTART value=$date_start|date_format:"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S"}
 {assign var=DTEND value=$event.event_date_end|date_format:"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S"}
 {assign var=Thesummary value=$event.event_summary}
 {assign var=title value=$event.event_title"}
 {assign var=SUMMARY value="$title-$Thesummary"}
 {assign var=CATEGORIES value=""}
 {assign var=LOCATION value=""}
 {assign var=DESCRIPTION value=$event.event_details|strip_tags}
 
 {assign var=altFront value='<img src="/images/cms/editbutton.png" alt="Add '}
 {assign var=AltBack value=' To your Calendar" />'}
 
 {addEvent EventName="$Name" DTSTART=$DTSTART DTEND=$DTEND SUMMARY=$SUMMARY LOCATION=$LOCATION CATEGORIES=$CATEGORIES DESCRIPTION=$DESCRIPTION linktext=$altFront$AltName$AltBack}
 
 
 

now if you don't want the image... change

{assign var=altFront value='<img src="/images/cms/editbutton.png" alt="Add '}
 {assign var=AltBack value=' To your Calendar" />'}
 
 

to

{assign var=altFront value=''}
 {assign var=AltBack value=''}
 
 

I will be cleaning this out more later... but.... simple dirty and gets the job done... you can view the output here,


http://98.129.105.20/

which will be come

http://www.northcentralidaho.org


Cheers
Jeremy

Please let me know
what programs you tried it in, any errors, etc... I have Outlook 2000 and 2007 confirmed working... but it should work with much more...


Compatible and tested with:

• Outlook 2000
• Outlook 2007
• Lightning 0.9   (for Thunderbird)
• Sunbird

Note:
You may want to add this to your .htaccess or equal since there is iis users out there

AddType application/octet-stream .ics 
 

You need to force the download since some browsers are not well debate who cares get the job done... see ... I got your back

also change your time zone.. I'm sure you all are not in US-Pacific

TZID:US-Pacific

and adjust this to match

TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
.
.
.
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700