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Has anyone had the chance to look at Internet Calendars yet? I'm testing Outlook 2007 Beta 2, which has the possibility to publish its calendar has a ics format on any given webserver. (which is easily done)

I would love to see a plugin in s9y that would read such a file, and display it in a static page. This would be a matter of drawing such a calendar on the web.

Any comments to this?

Hi!

Could you give me an example of such an ICS file, or a format documentation? If you got this, creating such a plugin wouldn't be very hard.

Best regards,
Garvin

Check out my published calendar at: http://calendars.officebeta.iponet.net/ ... lendar.ics

(The URL IS correct and DOES include the "ø")


BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//

http://www.imc.org/pdi/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

I thought that maybe somebody has already created a VCALENDAR class in PHP (hoped )

Edit: Found: http://bennu.sourceforge.net/

Oooh, okay. That format is a bit more complex than I had anticipated.

Sadly that PHP project seems to be quite out of date; the phpIcalendar had several security concerns...so so far I'm afraid there seems to be no good parser out there. Sadly my time is a bit too limited right now to write such a parser, especially because I wouldn't be using it on my own.

But I'll try to find time to look out for a parser. And if anyone finds a solit and working parser, I'd be glad to try a simple conversion to HTML. Once that is done, the output to s9y is a snap.

Regards,
Garvin

Thanks...

I'm looking forward to something like this. It would allow for me in a easy manner to tell my clients where I am and etc. All inside my blog.

Hi!

You might try to install that "phpIcalendar" (its license doesn't seem to allow bundling), and then display that using the wrapurl s9y plugin!?

Regards,
Garvin

Looks like ics extension is for "iCalendar" format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

There's even a Perl module on CPAN to parse iCalendar and generate HTML calendars:
http://search.cpan.org/~rfrankel/iCal-P ... er/HTML.pm

I did some Googling, and came up with:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9224
http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-comments-show.php?id=251

And PHPiCal (http://phpicalendar.net/) is GPL, so bundling it would be no problem, as long as we reference where to find its source. Apple likes it, too.