Possible to create Calendar Event?

[bdichiara]

I was wondering if this was possible. I have a web based calendar designed in PHP and I would like to know if it is possible to create a clickable link that will add an event to a user's Outlook Calendar. It would be ok if it only worked in IE, i'm just wondering if it's possible and how to do it. Thanks

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_brian.

 

[elaurenceau]

Yes. This is fairly simple. Have your application response return:

.setContentType("text/calendar;charset=ISO-8859-1");
.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=FileNameHere.ics");


write("BEGIN:VCALENDAR");
write("METHODUBLISH");
write("VERSION:2.0");
write("BEGIN:VEVENT");
write("DTSTAMP:20070122T170000Z"); //same as DTSTART, but ending in Z
write("DTSTART:20070122T170000"); //update start time accordingly
write("DTEND:20070122T180000); //update start time accordingly
write("SUMMARY:Summary Goes Here");
write("LOCATION:Location Goes Here");
write("UID:UniqueIdGoesHere");
write("DESCRIPTIONescription Goes Here");
write("STATUS:TENTATIVE");
write("END:VEVENT");
write("END:VCALENDAR");


This will be supported by most email clients (iCal, outlook, thunderbird, gmail, yahoo, etc)