PHP Mail to Outlook Calendar

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February 17th, 2003, 07:23 AM

Jason Tesser

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PHP Mail to Outlook Calendar

I have a form that gets sent email using php mail function. I would like to format part of the email message so that Outlook recognizes it as a calendar event. This would be really helpful. Does anyone know how to do this. It's gotto be possible. Though it is Microsoft. :-)

February 19th, 2003, 06:02 AM

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Can't someone help

February 19th, 2003, 06:19 AM

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I dont think thats possible. Otherwise spam emails would mess up the diarys of the people ...

February 19th, 2003, 06:43 AM

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possible

It has to be possible if someone the the format for a calander event in Outlook. I think that it is just a message with a particular formatting. Outlook hides the format though if you try to view it. :-( grumble microsoft.

February 21st, 2003, 05:34 AM

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still no help

February 1st, 2004, 08:15 AM

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I do not know, but i have found that you can add ebay-auctions to outlook calendar, so it should be possible. I would also need to knwo how..!

October 19th, 2008, 05:28 PM

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did this ever get solved? Im looking to do the same thing. thanks.

January 7th, 2009, 10:46 AM

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ICS attachment

I think this is what you are looking for:

bradym.net/php/creating-icalendar-ics-files-with-php

January 12th, 2009, 09:11 AM

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Outlook Calendar Email

Ok

After spending the whole day pasting code from several other sites, I accidentally found some code that will work. In the code, a user is registering for an event, and this script will set up a calendar event in the Outlook so they can accept/deny/etc

Please note that the Description is currently not working (tomorrow's task) for some reason.

<?
$to = $formVars['email'];
$subject = "Training Registration";
$message = "Thank you for participating in the Technical Certification training program.\n\n";
//==================
$headers = 'Content-Type:text/calendar; Content-Disposition: inline; charset=utf-8;\r\n';
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain;charset=\"utf-8\"\r\n";
$messaje = "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n";
$messaje .= "VERSION:2.0\n";
$messaje .= "PRODID:PHP\n";
$messaje .= "METHOD:REQUEST\n";
$messaje .= "BEGIN:VEVENT\n";
$messaje .= "DTSTART:" . $date_array[1] . $momth . $day1 . "T080000\n";
$messaje .= "DTEND:" . $date_array[1] . $momth . $day2. "T170000\n";
$messaje . "DESCRIPTION: You have registered for the class\n";
$messaje .= "SUMMARY:Technical Training\n";
$messaje .= "ORGANIZER; CN=\"Corporate\":mailto:training@corporate.com\n";
$messaje .= "Location:" . $location . "\n";
$messaje .= "UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000006FC30E6 C39DC004CA782E0C002E01A81\n";
$messaje .= "SEQUENCE:0\n";
$messaje .= "DTSTAMP:".date('Ymd').'T'.date('His')."\n";
$messaje .= "END:VEVENT\n";
$messaje .= "END:VCALENDAR\n";
$headers .= $messaje;
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
?>

Finally works!!!

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April 6th, 2009, 12:36 PM

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Quote:

PHP Code:


		
			
 $messaje . "DESCRIPTION: You have registered for the class\n";

You forgot the = on this line :P

PHP Code:


		
			
 $messaje .= "DESCRIPTION: You have registered for the class\n";

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April 12th, 2009, 07:51 AM

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No able to do \n in describtion section

Hi,
thanks heaps for publishing this script. Thi shelped heaps. I just have a small issue. When I try to ammend the desscription below after \n it does not display it in the calendar.

Works:
$messaje .= "DESCRIPTION: You have registered for the class\n";

Doesn't work
$messaje .= "DESCRIPTION: You have registered for the class\n" . "Please click below"\n;

I can't get anything to display after the first \n.

Did you come accross this. Any tips?

This is driving me crazy.

Cheers, amjmatrix

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April 28th, 2009, 09:30 AM

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I've got this one working too but and Outlook smess to recognize it as a calendar item but,
I am not able to accept an item. THe only way I can get it into my Calendar is bij moving it to the folder (right-mouse). Is it possible to get an Accept-button like you have when you send it through e-mail to a person?

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August 6th, 2009, 12:17 PM

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I have completed a working ical through php

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4GoGo

first create a folder in root directory and call it icsFile
inside this filder create a blank text file called calendar.txt

now create a php in the root directory called icalEmail.php and past the following code

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



$dtStart = '20090808T131415Z';//yyyymmddThhmmssZ

$dtEnd = '20090808T151617Z';

//--------------------

//create text file

$ourFileName = "icsFile/calendar.txt";

$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file1");

fclose($ourFileHandle);

//

//edit temp file

$myFile = "icsFile/calendar.txt";

$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file2");



$stringData = "

BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n 

PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN\n 

VERSION:2.0\n 

METHOD:REQUEST\n 

BEGIN:VEVENT\n 

ORGANIZER:MAILTO:organizer@domain.com\n 

DTSTAMP:".date('Ymd').'T'.date('His')."\n

DTSTART:$dtStart\n 

DTEND:$dtEnd\n 

TRANSP:OPAQUE\n 

SEQUENCE:0\n 

UID:".date('Ymd').'T'.date('His')."-".rand()."-domain.com\n 

SUMMARY:do something someware\n 

DESCRIPTION:  This is just a test\n

PRIORITY:5\n 

X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1\n 

CLASS:PUBLIC\n 

END:VEVENT\n 

END:VCALENDAR";

fwrite($fh, $stringData);

fclose($fh);





//email temp file

    $fileatt = "icsFile/calendar.txt"; // Path to the file

    $fileatt_type = "application/octet-stream"; // File Type

    $fileatt_name = "ical.ics"; // Filename that will be used for the file as the attachment

    

    $email_from = "fromPerson@domain.com"; // Who the email is from

    $email_subject = "Email test"; // The Subject of the email

    $email_message = "this is a sample message \n\n next line \n\n next line"; // Message that the email has in it

    

    $email_to = "toPerson@domain.com"; // Who the email is too

    

    $headers = "From: ".$email_from;

    

    $file = fopen($fileatt,'rb');

    $data = fread($file,filesize($fileatt));

    fclose($file);

    

    $semi_rand = md5(time());

    $mime_boundary = "==Multipart_Boundary_x{$semi_rand}x";

    

    $headers .= "\nMIME-Version: 1.0\n" .

    "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;\n" .

    " boundary=\"{$mime_boundary}\"";

    

    $email_message .= "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n" .

    "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .

    "Content-Type:text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\"\n" .

    "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n" .

    $email_message . "\n\n";

    

    $data = chunk_split(base64_encode($data));

    

    $email_message .= "--{$mime_boundary}\n" .

    "Content-Type: {$fileatt_type};\n" .

    " name=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .

    //"Content-Disposition: attachment;\n" .

    //" filename=\"{$fileatt_name}\"\n" .

    "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n\n" .

    $data . "\n\n" .

    "--{$mime_boundary}--\n";

    

    $ok = @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers);

    

    if($ok) {

    

    } else {

    die("Sorry but the email could not be sent. Please go back and try again!");

    } 

    

?>

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