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pto

Tuesday, 01 December 2015

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Hi

My web site has been successfully importing from a Google calendar for several years and now all of a sudden it is failing with the above error message. I keep the JEvents component up to date and nothing has changed in the Google calendar. Any suggestions please?

Thanks,

Mike



PHP Version : 5.4.45

MySQL Version : 5.5.46-cll-lve

Server Information : Linux whitestar8.lightning1.net 2.6.32-531.29.2.lve1.3.11.10.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 12 15:09:02 EDT 2015 x86_64

Fix jQuery? : Yes

Load JEvents Bootstrap CSS? : Yes

Max Input Vars ? : 1000

Club code set? : Yes  

User Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0  

Joomla : 3.4.5

component_com_jevents : 3.4.4

component_com_jce : 2.5.11

module_mod_jevents_cal : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_custom : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_filter : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_latest : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_legend : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_switchview : 3.4.4

layout_iconic : 3.4.5

layout_ruthin : 3.2.4

plugin_content_jevents : 3.4.4

plugin_finder_jevents : 3.4.4

plugin_jevents_jevcustomfields : 3.1.23

plugin_jevents_jevfiles : 3.0.13

plugin_search_eventsearch : 3.4.4

plugin_system_gwejson : 3.4.4

pto

Friday, 18 December 2015 11:48

#161149

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Thanks to you and the team for all your help this year

Have a great Christmas.

Mike

geraint

Friday, 18 December 2015 10:52

#161148

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Yes - that is fine to leave the code change.

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pto

Friday, 18 December 2015 10:48

#161147

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Edit the file components/com_jevevents/libraries/iCalImport.php and insert this code at line c. 176 .....

I've just tried this with the same result. Google has changed the link without telling anyone <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" />.

Thanks for sorting this for us. Is it OK to leave that code in iCalImport?

Regards

Mike

stefansmith

Thursday, 17 December 2015 13:11

#161146

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Hey,

This works for me too. Stupid me, I only checked the calendar ID and secret code before asking on this forum. Google made a change however in the first part or the URLs: https://calendar.google.com/... (new) instead of https://www.google.com/... (old)

They made this change without any notification however. Probably a lot of users are having this problem right now, maybe even without noticing it.

Thanks a lot for your help

Cheers

Stefan

joomla1597

Thursday, 17 December 2015 12:53

#161145

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Hi,
thanks Carcarm and Geraint. I answer here:

Carcam: My host say that curl is enabled for php.

Geraint: I've made the changes in code, and the result of reloading is the attach screenshoot.
[attachment=0

182fzz7]moved.jpg[/attachment

182fzz7]

If you click in the word "here", you go to this url:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ic ... /basic.ics

this url is different from the old one:

http://patrimoni.peu-uji.es/index.php?o ... als.reload

Now I think it's ok. Now, with the new url all is working. I don't know why this url has changed. Perhaps my customer has made anything, or google?

This has been difficult, I think, because if you go to old url with navigator, google redirects you to the new.
Thank you very much for your help!

geraint

Thursday, 17 December 2015 08:39

#161144

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Edit the file components/com_jevevents/libraries/iCalImport.php and insert this code at line c. 176

                                if (JFactory::getUser()->get('isRoot') && JFactory::getApplication()->isAdmin()) {

                                    $config = JFactory::getConfig();

                                    $debug = (boolean) $config->get('debug');

                                       if ($debug){

                                           echo "Unable to fetch calendar data<br/>";

                                           echo "Raw Data is ".$this->rawData;

                                           exit();

                                       }

                                    return false;

                                }

just before

JError::raiseWarning(0, 'Not a valid VCALENDAR data file: ' . $this->srcURL);

Then enable debug mode in Joomla and try reloading the calendar again in the backend of JEvents when logged in as a super user.
What does it give you?

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carcam

Wednesday, 16 December 2015 16:18

#161143

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Can you please check with your host if they offer curl support?

joomla1597

Wednesday, 16 December 2015 12:06

#161142

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Thanks Geraint, but it doesn't work.

I'm attaching two screenshots, perhaps it's easier for you...

geraint

Wednesday, 16 December 2015 10:40

#161141

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I'm wondering if its a user agent issue on your server for the data request.

Can you try adding this code

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Jevents.net");

at line c. 90 of components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php just after

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

Does that help?

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joomla1597

Wednesday, 16 December 2015 08:37

#161140

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I've asked to them. They say that haven't made any changes.

I've the same problem in another web (same server).

carcam

Tuesday, 15 December 2015 13:26

#161139

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Hi joomla1597,
both, downloading the file and using the URL worked for me in my development box. Can you please check with your Hosting if they have made any changes on last couple of weeks?

joomla1597

Tuesday, 15 December 2015 13:01

#161138

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Hi carcam,

you can find it here:

https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/uj ... /basic.ics

carcam

Tuesday, 15 December 2015 11:37

#161137

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Hi joomla1597,
can you please show us the VCalendar file so that we can see the format?

joomla1597

Tuesday, 15 December 2015 01:04

#161136

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PHP Version : 5.5.23

MySQL Version : 5.5.42-cll

Server Information : Linux cp125.webempresa.eu 2.6.32-531.29.2.lve1.3.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 06:49:17 EST 2014 x86_64

Fix jQuery? : Yes

Load JEvents Bootstrap CSS? : Yes

Max Input Vars ? : 1000

Club code set? : No  

User Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0  

Joomla : 3.4.6

component_com_jevents : 3.4.4

component_com_jce : 2.3.2.4

module_mod_jevents_cal : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_custom : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_filter : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_latest : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_legend : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_switchview : 3.4.4

plugin_content_jevents : 3.4.4

plugin_finder_jevents : 3.4.4 (not enabled)

plugin_search_eventsearch : 3.4.4

plugin_system_gwejson : 3.4.4

I've just updated joomla, but the error stills here

joomla1597

Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:55

#161135

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PHP Version : 5.5.23

MySQL Version : 5.5.42-cll

Server Information : Linux cp125.webempresa.eu 2.6.32-531.29.2.lve1.3.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 06:49:17 EST 2014 x86_64

Fix jQuery? : Yes

Load JEvents Bootstrap CSS? : Yes

Max Input Vars ? : 1000

Club code set? : No  

User Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0  

Joomla : 3.4.1

component_com_jevents : 3.4.4

component_com_jce : 2.3.2.4

module_mod_jevents_cal : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_custom : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_filter : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_latest : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_legend : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_switchview : 3.4.4

plugin_content_jevents : 3.4.4

plugin_finder_jevents : 3.4.4 (not enabled)

plugin_search_eventsearch : 3.4.4

plugin_system_gwejson : 3.4.4

Same problem. Jevents has imported events from a google calendar for a long time, but a few weeks ago it doesn't work. I have this msg:

Not a valid VCALENDAR data file

stefansmith

Monday, 14 December 2015 10:03

#161134

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Thank you. I will check it with my hoster. It's not a development machine, but a hosting service for Scouting groups.

geraint

Friday, 11 December 2015 17:30

#161133

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They imported fine to my server

Is this your desktop development machine? The version of PHP, MySQL and Linux are very old (all 3 years old) - I wonder if this could be part of your problem?

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stefansmith

Friday, 11 December 2015 12:38

#161132

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They are not that private

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ic ... /basic.ics

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ic ... /basic.ics

Jevents support information



PHP Version : 5.3.29-pl0-gentoo

MySQL Version : 5.1.67-log

Server Information : Linux leeuwarden 3.2.12-gentoo #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 09:56:27 CEST 2012 x86_64

Fix jQuery? : Yes

Load JEvents Bootstrap CSS? : Yes

Max Input Vars ? : 1000

Club code set? : No  

User Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.80 Safari/537.36  

Joomla : 3.4.5

component_com_jevents : 3.4.4

component_com_jce : 2.5.11

module_mod_jevents_cal : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_custom : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_filter : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_latest : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_legend : 3.4.4

module_mod_jevents_switchview : 3.4.4

plugin_content_jevents : 3.4.4

plugin_finder_jevents : 3.4.4 (not enabled)

plugin_search_eventsearch : 3.4.4

plugin_system_gwejson : 3.4.4

geraint

Friday, 11 December 2015 09:16

#161131

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I had no problems importing either of these files but to test it properly from Google I will need the google URL. If the events are private you can send the URL via PM.

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stefansmith

Thursday, 10 December 2015 17:27

#161130

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For example this file (zipped it because I was not allowed to upload a file with the .ics extension). Thanks for your quick response Geraint!

EDIT: added smaller file with less events. Maybe easier to find the problem? [attachment=0:2xey35r9]basic (5).rar[/attachment:2xey35r9]
I think there is a problem due to repeating events, but I'm not really sure about that.

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