iCal export from jEvents

[hifi]

Hi,

I made some coding, and were able to (at least in my environment ) get ical export from jEvents to work.

Codes:
http://hifi2.pp.fi/temp/jevents_ical.zip

Some instructions:

ZIP-file should be decompressed in components/com_jevents -directory (puts files to right place)

GUI can be accessed through address "index.php?option=com_jevents&task=ical.ical" (there's translations missing, just placeholders added).

And iCal file isn't using timezone (yet). I'll tell in this thread when I have updated exporter.

EDIT: And template/view/theme is for default ONLY

EDIT: UPDATED 3.8.2009 Added new version of exporter. Changes:

Moved exporter from modlatest to own controller icalexport

Fixed export of FREQ-value

EDIT: UPDATED 8.8.2009 Added missing new line between BEGIN:VEVENT and UID-value

[Geraint]

Great work Hifi.

Tested it and the extract works - apart from a typo "rintelval" instead of "rinterval" in modlatest.php.

Geraint

[hifi]

Great work Hifi.

Tested it and the extract works - apart from a typo "rintelval" instead of "rinterval" in modlatest.php.

Geraint

Thanks, updated zip file.

[gporterfield]

While searching for a new events tool for our church website, I started looking at jEvents. One of our requirements is iCal support, so I tried the steps mentioned in this message thread (on my development server). All I get are #500 errors stating the view does not exist. I read the steps in the thread several times and believe that I have followed them exactly. This is there something else "between the lines" that I need to know.

PHP version = 5.26
Joomla! version = 1.5.10
JEvents version = 1.5.1
Web server = Apache 2.2.9
Server OS = Linux (Mandriva)
DB version = 5.0.8.1
Memory limit = 32M
Web browser = Firefox 3.0.12

Thanks,
George

[dpsghh]

@gporterfield: did you try with default template?

@Geraint: Are you going to put this feature in next builds of jevents 1.5.2…?

Regards, MacJoomla

[dpsghh]

hello again

just installed and tested. For me it works nearly fine with Joomla 1.5.12 and Jevents 1.5.2 and default template. Using another template gives me an error as expected.

just two things:

1. downloaded file is called "calendar.ics.html" wouldnt just "calendar.ics" be better/more functional?
2. usually clicking an ics file on my mac, imports events to ical, but opening this ics file it cant be recognized as ics…

do you have an idea to this?

[hifi]

hello again

just installed and tested. For me it works nearly fine with Joomla 1.5.12 and Jevents 1.5.2 and default template. Using another template gives me an error as expected.

just two things:

1. downloaded file is called "calendar.ics.html" wouldnt just "calendar.ics" be better/more functional?
2. usually clicking an ics file on my mac, imports events to ical, but opening this ics file it cant be recognized as ics…

do you have an idea to this?

1. that file should be calendas.ics, at least according to code (and my memory, when I tested that. Although can't test now, because my dev machine's graphic card broke friday). Could that .html -end come from your browser?
2. Does it say some error? I tested those files with Sunbird, and with other installation of jevents, not with anything else intentionally. I think that I once accidentallydouble clicked that .ics-file, and Outlook displayed somne error about it, but can't remember for sure now.

And to gporterfield: did you used default view or some other? If some other, you need to copy that view from default to that view, because it's only theme that had those ical export views.

[dpsghh]

1. that file should be calendas.ics, at least according to code (and my memory, when I tested that. Although can't test now, because my dev machine's graphic card broke friday). Could that .html -end come from your browser?
2. Does it say some error? I tested those files with Sunbird, and with other installation of jevents, not with anything else intentionally. I think that I once accidentallydouble clicked that .ics-file, and Outlook displayed somne error about it, but can't remember for sure now.

1. I can confirm, on win pc it is without html, on Mac with Safari it is with html…
2. I can confirm error with outlook. On Mac, ical just says, couldnt read…

[gporterfield]

Some times the correct solution is the simplest thing.... file permisssions.

Once that worked, I copied the files over to the view I preferred, and it worked there too. Now to see if does what we were trying to accomplish.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[tac12]

Great addition, but I can't get the ics to read into either iCAL or Google Calendar.

Google report: Failed to import events: Unable to process your iCal/CSV file..

Error at line 24: Invalid FREQ rule part 'none' in recurrence rule

iCAL: This calendar file is unreadable. No events have been added to your iCal calendar.

Any suggestions?