Hello,

Could someone point me in the right direction. I have a db with event
info (date, time, location,...) and would like to be able to generate
a file that the user can click on so that the event is added to their
Outlook calendar. Is there a standard format for such a file or name
for this? Where can I get information to be able to program the
creation of this file?

Thank you for your time and help,

Daniel

Daniel wrote:

Hello,
>
Could someone point me in the right direction. I have a db with event
info (date, time, location,...) and would like to be able to generate
a file that the user can click on so that the event is added to their
Outlook calendar. Is there a standard format for such a file or name
for this? Where can I get information to be able to program the
creation of this file?
>
Thank you for your time and help,
>
Daniel
>

Maybe try an Outlook newsgroup? Find out what format you need, then see
how to do it.

But you'll probably find it can't be done from the server - otherwise I
could fill your Outlook calendar with all kinds of bogus "appointments".

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On Aug 23, 4:56 pm, Daniel <d_pinea...@hotmail.comwrote:

Hello,
>
Could someone point me in the right direction. I have a db with event
info (date, time, location,...) and would like to be able to generate
a file that the user can click on so that the event is added to their
Outlook calendar. Is there a standard format for such a file or name
for this? Where can I get information to be able to program the
creation of this file?
>
Thank you for your time and help,
>
Daniel

SugarCRM (PHP/MySQL) manages to do it:

http://www.sugarcrm.com/docs/Misc/Su...4.5.1.2.7.html

I would try barking up that source tree.

ELINTPimp wrote:

On Aug 23, 4:56 pm, Daniel <d_pinea...@hotmail.comwrote:

>
SugarCRM (PHP/MySQL) manages to do it:
>
http://www.sugarcrm.com/docs/Misc/Su...4.5.1.2.7.html
>
I would try barking up that source tree.
>

This uses an special Outlook plugin - which is neither PHP nor MySQL.

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Daniel wrote:

a file that the user can click on so that the event is added to their
Outlook calendar. Is there a standard format for such a file or name
for this?

Yes, it's called iCalendar.

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TrivialEncoder/0.2
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/0...ivial-encoder/

On Aug 24, 4:17 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:

Daniel wrote:

>
Yes, it's called iCalendar.
>
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[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
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>
TrivialEncoder/0.2
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/0...ivial-encoder/

It took a while but I finally found a great article that covers
exactly this. It create a file that the user clicks on and then get
sent to their calendar. If interested you can see it at

http://www.devx.com/getHelpOn/10Minu...20508/0/page/1

Daniel

On Aug 24, 8:17 am, Daniel <d_pinea...@hotmail.comwrote:

On Aug 24, 4:17 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
>

>

>

>

>
It took a while but I finally found a great article that covers
exactly this. It create a file that the user clicks on and then get
sent to their calendar. If interested you can see it at
>
http://www.devx.com/getHelpOn/10Minu...20508/0/page/1
>
Daniel

Here one more really good source to learn from.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ch...3?print_mode=1

Daniel

Daniel wrote:

It took a while but I finally found a great article that covers
exactly this. It create a file that the user clicks on and then get
sent to their calendar. If interested you can see it at
>
http://www.devx.com/getHelpOn/10Minu...20508/0/page/1

Indeed. iCalendar is a very nifty format. You should also look up
hCalendar as it may be of interest: it's a mapping of vCalendar
semantics to HTML, and there are various tool to convert between
the two. There's also such a thing as xCalendar, an XML serialisation
of vCalendar, though in practise there is very little software that
supports it.

I did a bunch of research on this sort of thing a few months ago as
I've written support for my CMS to offer feeds in iCalendar as well
as the usual suspects like RSS and Atom.

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[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
[OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 65 days, 2:17.]

TrivialEncoder/0.2
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/0...ivial-encoder/