Hello,

This is a very promising addition to the Events Calendar, however, it does not emit valid iCal. Embedded newlines should be escaped, and long lines need to be folded (per RFC 2445) in chunks of 75 characters or less followed by CRLF and a whitespace character (I recommend tab). Improperly formatted feeds cause problems for clients such as Google Calendar. Ideally control characters would also be removed.

Cheers!

This is a very promising addition to the Events Calendar, however, it does not emit valid iCal. Any newlines in an event description need to be turned into \n, and ideally control characters would be removed. If you do no escape newlines, google calendar’s strict parser cannot handle the resulting feed.

tks for the plugin. It does a good job. So , I’m missing some crucial data. Haven’t you included options for Links and Locations be included in the iCal file as well?

If yes, how difficult will it be for me to modify? I have some principal knowledge of how to read and edit here and there a php script but that’s it.

Will that do?

Tks for your answer in advance!
Franz

diff -pur ical-for-events-calendar/ical-ec.php ical-for-events-calendar+location/ical-ec.php
— ical-for-events-calendar/ical-ec.php 2009-01-30 22:22:10.000000000 +0100
+++ ical-for-events-calendar+location/ical-ec.php 2009-02-14 04:05:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ function iCalFeed()
$eventStart = date(“Ymd\THis”, $convertedStart) . “Z”;
$eventEnd = date(“Ymd\THis”, $convertedEnd) . “Z”;
$summary = $post->eventTitle;
+ $location = $post->eventLocation;
$description = $post->eventDescription;
$description = str_replace(“,”, “\,”, $description);
$description = str_replace(“\\”, “\\\\”, $description);
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ function iCalFeed()
$events .= “DTSTART:” . $eventStart . “\n”;
$events .= “DTEND:” . $eventEnd . “\n”;
$events .= “SUMMARY:” . $summary . “\n”;
+ $events .= “LOCATION:” . $location . “\n”;
$events .= “DESCRIPTION:” . $description . “\n”;
$events .= “END:VEVENT\n”;
}

Perhaps you can include it in an upcoming version;-).

Heirem: The plugin pretty much does what it says, creates an iCalendar format feed from the Events Calendar database. The code is pretty simple and you can look at and use it if you think it should be a standard include.