Comments on: Creating iCalendar (ics) files with PHP

By: bradym

bradym — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:55:05 +0000

Tom:

Sorry for the delayed response. I don’t have an iPhone, so I haven’t played around with adding events to it. My guess is that if it works in iCal on OS X it will work for the iPhone, but I have no documentation to support that theory.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:23:37 +0000

Thanks for the headstart. I need to code something like this for a client who wants to add events to her iPhone, so I think an ical file is required. Do you know of any iPhone specific issues to be aware of? Unfortunately I don’t have an iPhone either, so any clue how I can test it?

By: Christian Asche

Christian Asche — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:53:24 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial.

I got an error in Outlook 2007: 0×00040023 Der Internetkalender enthält einen fließenden DTStart Wert …

This fix worked for me:

echo “DTSTART:”.$events->fields[start].”T000000Z\n”;
echo “DTEND:”.$events->fields['end'].”T000000Z\n”;

I just added an Z to DTSTART and DTEND, to get rid of the warning.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:36:43 +0000

Thanks for this, it’s really cleared things up for me. I was planning on doing this for a project further down the line but now I can get it out there at the start. Cheers
Nathan

By: bradym

bradym — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:46:26 +0000

Joe: Thanks, but the link seems to be working fine now. Maybe their site was down temporarily.

By: bradym

bradym — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:45:51 +0000

Bwhendrickx:

db.php is where the connection parameters are stored. In this case I was using adodb (http://adodb.sf.net) so $conn is the connection object. Here’s the contents of db.php

< ?php
include('adodb.inc.php');
$conn = NewADOConnection('mysql');
$conn->connect(’localhost’, ‘username’, ‘password’, ‘database’);
?>

Also, the &gt should have been > — WordPress decided to convert it to the HTML entity for me and leave off the semi-colon.. how helpful.

By: Bwhendrickx

Bwhendrickx — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:19:44 +0000

Very nice code, but a little bit vague. Which code contains the db.php?? only username, password, etc.? what is: $conn->
because when I execute: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’ in /xxxxx/xxxx/xxx/generator.php on line 6

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:34:24 +0000

The link below is broken. It is the third link the list on top.

link text: ‘# Entire iCalendar Specification’ link: ‘http://rfc.net/rfc2445.html’