Jevents 2.2.8 on Joomla 1.5.26

[ttoone]

I have followed all the instructions for the upgrade to v2.2.8, however, every time I try to manually update the events from a remote ical url is says this:

"bImporting events from ical file http://email.canyonsdistrict.org/owa/ca ... lendar.ics
I hope this is a URL!!"

The screen stays put on the page with that message.

This has worked flawlessly before, but since the upgrade to v2.2.8 it does not work anymore. I even uninstalled 2.2.8 and re-installed v1.5.6 and it worked without any issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Tonyp]

Did you enable the Mootools upgrade plugin?

[Geraint]

Enable Joomla! Maximum Error Reporting and view the page again, you should now have a more detailed error which will help us to resolve you issue quickly.

[ttoone]

Geraint, I enabled the maximum error reporting. This is the report when I try manually updating the calendar:

bImporting events from ical file http://email.canyonsdistrict.org/owa/ca ... lendar.ics
I hope this is a URL!!

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'DateTimeZone::__construct() [<a href='datetimezone.--construct'>datetimezone.--construct</a>]: Unknown or bad timezone (Mountain Standard Time)' in /Library/WebServer/schools/altaview/components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php:515 Stack trace: #0 /Library/WebServer/schools/altaview/components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php(515): DateTimeZone->__construct('Mountain Standa...') #1 /Library/WebServer/schools/altaview/components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php(692): iCalImport->unixTime('20120827T000000', 'Mountain Standa...') #2 /Library/WebServer/schools/altaview/components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php(279): iCalImport->handleDate('DTSTART;TZID=Mo...', '20120827T000000') #3 /Library/WebServer/schools/altaview/components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php(242): iCalImport->add_to_cal('VEVENT', 'DTSTART;TZID=Mo...', '20120827T000000', false) #4 /Library/WebServer/schools/altaview/components/com_jevents/libraries/helper.php(120): iCalImport->im in /Library/WebServer/schools/altaview/components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php on line 515

[Tonyp]

What version of PHP are you using?

Regards
Tony

[ttoone]

5.2.15. The server is currently running on Mac OC 10.5, and according to our tech it will be a painful upgrade. We have a new server that we will eventually move to with the latest PHP version, etc, but that may be awhile before we get everything in place.

[Tonyp]

Hello,

I suspect it might be causes by PHP that version is very old and upgrading php is not normally very hard. EasyApache is quite good.

http://php.net/archive/2010.php

Regards
Tony

[Geraint]

You are importing from a windows server (at a guess) and Microsoft, in its wisdom, chooses not to use industry standard timezone names.

Find the method convertWindowsTzid in the file administrator/components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php and add this as a new exception

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$wtzdata["Mountain Standard Time"] = "America/Denver";

I'll include it for JEvents 3.0

[ttoone]

Geraint,

Thanks for your response. I don't see this file "iCalImport.php" in the directory you specified: "administrator/components/com_jevents/libraries"

However, I do see the file (iCalImport.php) inside the /components/com_jevents/libraries, but it appears the following line of code is already in there.

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$wtzdata["Mountain Standard Time"] = "America/Denver";

[Geraint]

Are you sure that version of the file is on your server too and not just your local pc?