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Generate iCal files in PHP
<?php
class CalendarEvent {
/**
*
* The event ID
* @var string
*/
private $uid;
/**
* The event start date
* @var DateTime
*/
private $start;
/**
* The event end date
* @var DateTime
*/
private $end;
/**
*
* The event title
* @var string
*/
private $summary;
/**
* The event description
* @var string
*/
private $description;
/**
* The event location
* @var string
*/
private $location;
public function __construct($parameters) {
$parameters += array(
'summary' => 'Untitled Event',
'description' => '',
'location' => ''
);
if (isset($parameters['uid'])) {
$this->uid = $parameters['uid'];
} else {
$this->uid = uniqid(rand(0, getmypid()));
}
$this->start = $parameters['start'];
$this->end = $parameters['end'];
$this->summary = $parameters['summary'];
$this->description = $parameters['description'];
$this->location = $parameters['location'];
return $this;
}
/**
* Get the start time set for the even
* @return string
*/
private function formatDate($date) {
return $date->format("Ymd\THis\Z");
}
/* Escape commas, semi-colons, backslashes.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1590368/should-a-colon-character-be-escaped-in-text-values-in-icalendar-rfc2445
*/
private function formatValue($str) {
return addcslashes($str, ",\\;");
}
public function generateString() {
$created = new DateTime();
$content = '';
$content = "BEGIN:VEVENT\r\n"
. "UID:{$this->uid}\r\n"
. "DTSTART:{$this->formatDate($this->start)}\r\n"
. "DTEND:{$this->formatDate($this->end)}\r\n"
. "DTSTAMP:{$this->formatDate($this->start)}\r\n"
. "CREATED:{$this->formatDate($created)}\r\n"
. "DESCRIPTION:{$this->formatValue($this->description)}\r\n"
. "LAST-MODIFIED:{$this->formatDate($this->start)}\r\n"
. "LOCATION:{$this->location}\r\n"
. "SUMMARY:{$this->formatValue($this->summary)}\r\n"
. "SEQUENCE:0\r\n"
. "STATUS:CONFIRMED\r\n"
. "TRANSP:OPAQUE\r\n"
. "END:VEVENT\r\n";
return $content;
}
}
class Calendar {
protected $events;
protected $title;
protected $author;
public function __construct($parameters) {
$parameters += array(
'events' => array(),
'title' => 'Calendar',
'author' => 'Calender Generator'
);
$this->events = $parameters['events'];
$this->title = $parameters['title'];
$this->author = $parameters['author'];
}
/**
*
* Call this function to download the invite.
*/
public function generateDownload() {
$generated = $this->generateString();
header('Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT' ); //date in the past
header('Last-Modified: ' . gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s' ) . ' GMT' ); //tell it we just updated
header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate' ); //force revaidation
header('Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0', false );
header('Pragma: no-cache' );
header('Content-type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="calendar.ics"');
header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: " . strlen($generated));
print $generated;
}
/**
*
* The function generates the actual content of the ICS
* file and returns it.
*
* @return string|bool
*/
public function generateString() {
$content = "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n"
. "VERSION:2.0\r\n"
. "PRODID:-//" . $this->author . "//NONSGML//EN\r\n"
. "X-WR-CALNAME:" . $this->title . "\r\n"
. "CALSCALE:GREGORIAN\r\n";
foreach($this->events as $event) {
$content .= $event->generateString();
}
$content .= "END:VCALENDAR";
return $content;
}
}
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Thanks this class help me a lot.

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