iCal integration?

Hello! I’m a new user to MODx and I’m looking for a way to integrate iCal into a page. I’m working with BJ at Kickass Web Design on a new site, barrylyga.com. She suggested I check in here to see if anyone has any wisdom on this particular issue.

Basically, right now I can publish a calendar to Apple’s .Mac servers and use something like PHP iCalendar (http://phpicalendar.net/) to "see" it and pull data from it on a non-MODx site. So I would need something like PHP iCalendar, probably as a chunk or a snippet, where I could just point to the iCal file and set some parameters and have the calendar data show up on the MODx page in question.

Sort of like this: http://fanboyandgothgirl.com/event-calendar/. (That’s a WordPress page that I cobbled together with some frames. Not very pretty, but it gets the job done.) I’m hoping for a more integrated solution with MODx.

I’m VERY new to all of this, but if anyone can point me in the right direction, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

Barry

LOL! Yeah, he knows just enough to get himself in major trouble! But yeah, the ical thing would be wonderful. We’d love to get this pup launched once and for all.

I haven’t seen any iCal parsers for MODx yet.. you could find some php class that does it, like this (unfortunately, license seems bad), and create a snippet to use it..

If I could write a snippet I would have, but I’m two thumbs at php.

This type of project has been started for ModX, but never finished, as far as I’m aware. See this thread:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,2318.180.html

I did find these, all released under GPL (except where noted) for wordpress, so maybe possibility of being ported?

http://garrickvanburen.com/wordpress-plugins/wpical/

http://gestadieu.free.fr/blog/?page_id=37

http://dev.webadmin.ufl.edu/~dwc/2005/03/10/ical-events-plugin/ (no licensing stated, but made for GPL wordpress)

http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~awolfe/icalevents/

Also found these at sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpicalendar/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/iwebcal/

I’m confused.. Which one do you need, a parser to parse existing iCal file and produce some kind of view of it, or a calendar system that can output the calendar data in iCal format?

Definitely a parser to view/show information from a pre-existing iCal calendar. The calendar file already exists -- MODx would need to read that file and display the information.

Yeah, that’s what I thought.. then none of the links that kickass posted apply to this.. But it would be fairly simple to do that in a snippet with some php class that does the parsing, like the one I referred to.

I told you I need to stay clear of backend . . .

I found some code from Japan that is basically a standalone version of the iCal parser, wrapped with some other code to make a standalone iCalendar system, and a module for XOOPS is included. I bet that might be a good place to start. It’s the best attempt I’ve seen at isolating that functionality...

See http://www.xoops.org/modules/repository/singlefile.php?cid=7&lid=1377 to download a package using this standalone parser, wrapped by what is named piCal. Or do some searching; there may actually be a new version; I’m not sure...

Here’s a simple class to start with http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/62052.html