Nov
11 2009
I am working with some Event management system recently.
The system requirement need to send out the confirmation to those registrants with a calendar ics attachment.
For this, I need to make my application to generate the ics file and attach it inside the email notification.
Below is the source to generate the ics file.
<?php //This is the most important coding. header("Content-Type: text/Calendar"); header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=filename.ics"); echo "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n"; echo "PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN\n"; echo "VERSION:2.0\n"; echo "METHOD:PUBLISH\n"; echo "X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE\n"; echo "BEGIN:VEVENT\n"; echo "CLASS:PUBLIC\n"; echo "CREATED:20091109T101015Z\n"; echo "DESCRIPTION:How 2 Guru Event\\n\\n\\nEvent Page\\n\\nhttp://www.myhow2guru.com\n"; echo "DTEND:20091208T040000Z\n"; echo "DTSTAMP:20091109T093305Z\n"; echo "DTSTART:20091208T003000Z\n"; echo "LAST-MODIFIED:20091109T101015Z\n"; echo "LOCATION:Anywhere have internet\n"; echo "PRIORITY:5\n"; echo "SEQUENCE:0\n"; echo "SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:How2Guru Event\n"; echo "TRANSP:OPAQUE\n"; echo "UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000008062306C6261CA01000000000000000\n"; echo "X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY\n"; echo "X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1\n"; echo "X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE\n"; echo "X-MS-OLK-ALLOWEXTERNCHECK:TRUE\n"; echo "X-MS-OLK-AUTOFILLLOCATION:FALSE\n"; echo "X-MS-OLK-CONFTYPE:0\n"; //Here is to set the reminder for the event. echo "BEGIN:VALARM\n"; echo "TRIGGER:-PT1440M\n"; echo "ACTION:DISPLAY\n"; echo "DESCRIPTION:Reminder\n"; echo "END:VALARM\n"; echo "END:VEVENT\n"; echo "END:VCALENDAR\n"; ?> |
I tested above script, it working fine with the Microsoft Outlook 2007.
Cheers~~!
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January 8th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Thank you the post has given me a nice insight on the topic
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:08 am
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April 26th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Can we directly integrate the downloaded file to outlook .. Waiting for the reply…
May 20th, 2010 at 12:50 am
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May 20th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Hi manjunatha,
I think it is not possible at the moment.
Will try to check it out and get you inform if any.
May 27th, 2011 at 2:22 am
Hi, how can we use this code on a wordpress post so that when you click the link it will download the .ics file, but not popup automatically on page load? thanks for your help!
September 9th, 2011 at 1:11 am
good work,
atleast i got the idea to go about, nice work