iCalcreator v2.10.20

iCalcreator class v2.10.20
copyright (c) 2007-2011 Kjell-Inge Gustafsson, kigkonsult
kigkonsult.se/iCalcreator
ical@kigkonsult.se

iCalcreator is a PHP class managing iCal formatted files for non-calendar systems like CMS, project management systems and other applications able to process calendar information like agendas, tasks, reports, totos, journaling data and for communication with calendar systems and applications.

This is a short summary how to use iCalcreator; create, parse, edit, select and output functionality.

iCalcreator is built of a class file with support of a function class file and are calendar component property oriented. Development environment is PHP version 5.x but coding is done to meet 4.x backward compatibility and may work.

iCal

A short iCal description is found at Wikipedia. If You are not familiar with iCal, read this first!
Knowledge of calendar protocol rfc5545/rfc5546 is to recommend;
rfc5545 - Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar)
rfc5546 - iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries
rfc5545 and rfc5546 obsoletes, respectively, rfc2445 and rfc2446.
All functions calls are made as simple as possible BUT (, !!!,) read these rfc's properly!

SUPPORT

The main support channel is using iCalcreator Sourceforge forum.

Our services are available for support and designing and developing customizations, adaptations and other PHP/MySQL solutions with a special focus on software utility and reliability, supported through our iterative acquire/design/transition process modell.

DONATE

You can show your appreciation for our free software, and can support future development by making a donation to the kigkonsult GPL/LGPL projects.

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Contact

Use the contact page for queries, improvement/development issues or professional support and development. Please note that paid support or consulting service has the highest priority.

Downloads

Download complete manual and coding samples. from kigkonsult.se.

INSTALL

Unpack to any folder
- add this folder to your include-path
- or unpack to your application-(include)-folder
Add "require_once '[folder/]iCalcreator.class.php';" to your php-script.

If using php version 5.1 or higher, the default timezone need to be set/altered, now "Europe/Stockholm", line 50 in the iCalcreator.class.php file.
When creating a new calendar/component instance, review config settings.

To really boost perfomance, visit kigkonsult.se contact page for information.

CREATE

require_once( "iCalcreator.class.php" ); $config = array( "unique_id" => "kigkonsult.se" ); // set Your unique id $v = new vcalendar( $config ); // create a new calendar instance $v->setProperty( "method", "PUBLISH" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "x-wr-calname", "Calendar Sample" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-CALDESC", "Calendar Description" ); // required of some calendar software $tz = "Europe/Stockholm"; $v->setProperty( "X-WR-TIMEZONE", $tz ); // required of some calendar software .. . iCalUtilityFunctions::createTimezone( $v, $tz ) // creates (very simple) timezone component(-s) .. . $vevent = & $v->newComponent( "vevent" ); // create an event calendar component $vevent->setProperty( "dtstart", array( "year"=>2007, "month"=>4, "day"=>1, "hour"=>19, "min"=>0, "sec"=>0 )); $vevent->setProperty( "dtend", array( "year"=>2007, "month"=>4, "day"=>1, "hour"=>22, "min"=>30, "sec"=>0 )); $vevent->setProperty( "LOCATION", "Central Placa" ); // property name - case independent $vevent->setProperty( "summary", "PHP summit" ); $vevent->setProperty( "description", "This is a description" ); $vevent->setProperty( "comment", "This is a comment" ); $vevent->setProperty( "attendee", "attendee1@icaldomain.net" ); .. . $vevent = & $v->newComponent( "vevent" ); // create next event calendar component $vevent->setProperty( "dtstart", "20070401", array("VALUE" => "DATE"));// alt. date format, now for an all-day event $vevent->setProperty( "organizer" , "boss@icaldomain.com" ); $vevent->setProperty( "summary", "ALL-DAY event" ); $vevent->setProperty( "description", "This is a description for an all-day event" ); $vevent->setProperty( "resources", "COMPUTER PROJECTOR" ); $vevent->setProperty( "rrule", array( "FREQ" => "WEEKLY", "count" => 4));// weekly, four occasions $vevent->parse( "LOCATION:1CP Conference Room 4350" ); // supporting parse of strict rfc5545 formatted text .. . .. .// all calendar components are described in rfc5545 .. .// a complete iCalcreator function list (ex. setProperty) in iCalcreator manual .. . $v->returnCalendar(); // redirect calendar file to browser

PARSE

require_once( "iCalcreator.class.php" ); $config = array( "unique_id" => "kigkonsult.se" ); // set Your unique id, required if any component UID is missing $v = new vcalendar( $config ); // create a new calendar instance /* start parse of local file */ $config = array( "directory" => "calendar", "filename" => "file.ics" ); $v->setConfig( $config ); // set directory and file name $v->parse(); /* start parse of remote file */ $v->setConfig( "url", "http://www.aDomain.net/file.ics" ); // iCalcreator also support parse from or write to remote files $v->parse(); $v->setProperty( "method", "PUBLISH" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "x-wr-calname", "Calendar Sample" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-CALDESC", "Calendar Description" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-TIMEZONE", "Europe/Stockholm" ); // required of some calendar software .. . $v->sort(); // ensure start date order .. .

EDIT

require_once( "iCalcreator.class.php" ); $config = array( "unique_id" => "kigkonsult.se", "directory" => "calendar", "filename" => "file.ics" ); // set Your unique id, import directory and file name $v = new vcalendar( $config ); // create a new calendar instance $v->parse(); $v->setProperty( "method", "PUBLISH" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "x-wr-calname", "Calendar Sample" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-CALDESC", "Calendar Description" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-TIMEZONE", "Europe/Stockholm" ); // required of some calendar software while( $vevent = $v->getComponent( "vevent" )) { // read events, one by one $uid = $vevent->getProperty( "uid" ); // uid required, one occurence (unique id/key for component) .. . $dtstart = $vevent->getProperty( "dtstart" ); // dtstart required, one occurence .. . if( $description = $vevent->getProperty( "description", 1 )) { // description optional, first occurence .. . // edit the description $vevent->setProperty( "description", $description, FALSE, 1 ); // update/replace the description } while( $comment = $vevent->getProperty( "comment" )) { // comment optional, may occur more than once .. . // manage comments } .. . while( $vevent->deleteProperty( "attendee" )) continue; // remove all ATTENDEE properties .. . .. . $v->setComponent ( $vevent, $uid ); // update/replace event in calendar with uid as key } .. . .. .// a complete iCalcreator function list (ex. getProperty, deleteProperty) in iCalcreator manual .. .

SELECT

require_once( "iCalcreator.class.php" ); $config = array( "unique_id" => "kigkonsult.se" ); // set Your unique id $v = new vcalendar( $config ); // create a new calendar instance $v->setConfig( "url", "http://www.aDomain.net/file.ics" ); // iCalcreator also support remote files $v->parse(); $v->sort(); // ensure start date order $v->setProperty( "method", "PUBLISH" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "x-wr-calname", "Calendar Sample" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-CALDESC", "Calendar Description" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-TIMEZONE", "Europe/Stockholm" ); // required of some calendar software

Date based select

$eventArray = $v->selectComponents(); // select components occuring today // (including components with recurrence pattern) foreach( $eventArray as $year => $yearArray) { foreach( $yearArray as $month => $monthArray ) { foreach( $monthArray as $day => $dailyEventsArray ) { foreach( $dailyEventsArray as $vevent ) { $currddate = $event->getProperty( "x-current-dtstart" ); // if member of a recurrence set (2nd occurence etc) // returns array( "x-current-dtstart" // , <(string) date("Y-m-d [H:i:s][timezone/UTC offset]")>) $dtstart = $vevent->getProperty( "dtstart" ); // dtstart required, one occurence, (orig. start date) $summary = $vevent->getProperty( "summary" ); $description = $vevent->getProperty( "description" ); .. . .. . } } } }

Select specific property values

$valueOccurr = $v->getProperty( "CATEGORIES" ); // fetch specific property (unique) values and ocurrences // ATTENDEE, CATEGORIES, DTSTART, LOCATION, // ORGANIZER, PRIORITY, RESOURCES, STATUS, // SUMMARY, UID foreach( $valueOccurr as $uniqueValue => $occurr ) { .. . }

Specific property value select

$selectSpec = array( "CATEGORIES" => "course1" ); $specComps = $v->selectComponents( $selectSpec ); // selects components based on specific property value(-s) // ATTENDEE, CATEGORIES, LOCATION, ORGANIZER, // PRIORITY, RESOURCES, STATUS, SUMMARY, UID foreach( $specComps as $comp ) { .. . }

OUTPUT

require_once( "iCalcreator.class.php" ); $config = array( "unique_id" => "kigkonsult.se" ); // set Your unique id $v = new vcalendar( $config ); // create a new calendar instance $v->setProperty( "method", "PUBLISH" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "x-wr-calname", "Calendar Sample" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-CALDESC", "Calendar Description" ); // required of some calendar software $v->setProperty( "X-WR-TIMEZONE", "Europe/Stockholm" ); // required of some calendar software .. . .. .// parse calendar file(s) and/or edit/create calendar components.. . .. .

// opt 1

.. . $v->returnCalendar(); // redirect calendar file to browser

// opt 2

.. . $config = array( "directory" => "depot", "filename" => "calendar.ics" ); $v->setConfig( $config ); // set output directory and file name $v->saveCalendar(); // save calendar to (local) file

// opt 3

.. . $config = array( "url" => "http://www.aDomain.net/file.ics" ); $v->setConfig( $config ); // set output url $v->saveCalendar(); // save calendar to remote url

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright

iCalcreator v2.10.20
copyright (c) 2007-2011 Kjell-Inge Gustafsson, kigkonsult
kigkonsult.se/iCalcreator
ical@kigkonsult.se

License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA or download it here.