[KLUG Members] presentation calendar

Bruce Smith members@kalamazoolinux.org
11 Aug 2003 08:20:10 -0400


> > >There is iCAL support in PHP....
> > Where?
> 
> Sorry, you're right.  It has iCAP support, not iCAL supprt.  And heading
> over to the manual it appears that iCAP support has been pulled from
> recent versions due to lack of maintainers.
> 
> iCAP support and other calendar functions are via mcal, whose download
> page seems to be broken.  Not to mentiont hat mcal could do with a few
> more active maintainers than it has.
> 
> Bummer, guess the situation is quite a bit worse than I thought.
> 
> But there is an iCalendar/PHP class (supposedly) available from -
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/php-flp/
> 
> And there is the PHP/iCalendar projects which can DISPLAY the contents
> of iCalendar files, but I don't know if it can create them. -
> http://phpicalendar.sourceforge.net/nuke/
> 
> And there is always OpenGroupWare which exports calendars via WebDAV for
> things like the Mac OS X & Mozilla calendars.  But that is a bit like
> hitting a fly with an anvil for this problem.

So, where does that leave us?  (knowing nothing about this stuff myself)

What if we were to forget about postgres?  The schedule doesn't change
very often, we could write a cron job to dump the database into a text
file every night.  Would that work for this?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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