Support/Comments for iCalendar 0.0.1-beta

This is an auto-generated topic for <a href="http://modxcms.com/extras/package/575">iCalendar 0.0.1-beta</a> by rolf.

Brief Description:
iCalendar snippet, by rolf ahlborn

This snippet will collect ressources/documents from defined folder(s) and creates an ics-file for downloading or subscribing your dates/events into iCal or Outlook or others.

I figured out, that SnowLeo’s iCal doesn’t works with the global time zone parameter.

If your cal-tool shows unespected dates, a quick fix will be to add the time zone id in every event and strip the last "Z" at the end of the date/time-value like this:



I’ll fix this in next version.

If this is a proprietary behavoir of iCal, I’ll have to build a switch to export a correct iCalender text into the ics-file

Cheers,
rolf

Hi iRolf,

I love the iCalendar snippet - works great!

I have one problem though, the calendar relies on the pub_date and unpub_date of the document. Is there any way to respecify this to TVs? So I can have a calendar generated from documents that are already published on the site and use date type TVs to specify the start and end dates?

I don’t know much PHP and while I feel I have a grasp of your code, I tried using a date type TV called "general_date" and changing the line:



to



and it threw up an error obviously to my basic understanding.

Any idea how I could specify start and finish dates with tv’s?

hi Hat-rack,

thank you for your positive comment.

To get the TVs work for you, I think you’ll have to do somethin like this:

which delivers you in this case the values of three TVs, called ’smallImg’, ’bigImg’ and ’year’ of a published (value 1) child document. (I picked this from another snippet)
You can access the values like a normal associative array:

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,
rolf