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A convenient script to generate iCalendar (.ics) files on the fly in PHP.
<?php
// Variables used in this script:
// $summary - text title of the event
// $datestart - the starting date (in seconds since unix epoch)
// $dateend - the ending date (in seconds since unix epoch)
// $address - the event's address
// $uri - the URL of the event (add http://)
// $description - text description of the event
// $filename - the name of this file for saving (e.g. my-event-name.ics)
//
// Notes:
// - the UID should be unique to the event, so in this case I'm just using
// uniqid to create a uid, but you could do whatever you'd like.
//
// - iCal requires a date format of "yyyymmddThhiissZ". The "T" and "Z"
// characters are not placeholders, just plain ol' characters. The "T"
// character acts as a delimeter between the date (yyyymmdd) and the time
// (hhiiss), and the "Z" states that the date is in UTC time. Note that if
// you don't want to use UTC time, you must prepend your date-time values
// with a TZID property. See RFC 5545 section 3.3.5
//
// - The Content-Disposition: attachment; header tells the browser to save/open
// the file. The filename param sets the name of the file, so you could set
// it as "my-event-name.ics" or something similar.
//
// - Read up on RFC 5545, the iCalendar specification. There is a lot of helpful
// info in there, such as formatting rules. There are also many more options
// to set, including alarms, invitees, busy status, etc.
//
// https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5545.txt
// 1. Set the correct headers for this file
header('Content-type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . $filename);
// 2. Define helper functions
// Converts a unix timestamp to an ics-friendly format
// NOTE: "Z" means that this timestamp is a UTC timestamp. If you need
// to set a locale, remove the "\Z" and modify DTEND, DTSTAMP and DTSTART
// with TZID properties (see RFC 5545 section 3.3.5 for info)
//
// Also note that we are using "H" instead of "g" because iCalendar's Time format
// requires 24-hour time (see RFC 5545 section 3.3.12 for info).
function dateToCal($timestamp) {
return date('Ymd\THis\Z', $timestamp);
}
// Escapes a string of characters
function escapeString($string) {
return preg_replace('/([\,;])/','\\\$1', $string);
}
// 3. Echo out the ics file's contents
?>
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND:<?= dateToCal($dateend) ?>
UID:<?= uniqid() ?>
DTSTAMP:<?= dateToCal(time()) ?>
LOCATION:<?= escapeString($address) ?>
DESCRIPTION:<?= escapeString($description) ?>
URL;VALUE=URI:<?= escapeString($uri) ?>
SUMMARY:<?= escapeString($summary) ?>
DTSTART:<?= dateToCal($datestart) ?>
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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