Support named WebCals

[AlexH]

Hi!

My University provides iCals via a URL which basically is a GET-string. The Name of the calendar results in a very ugly string being placed everywhere.

The easiest way to name a webcal would be using a named Array. I tried to hack phpicalendar and came up with the following solution which works for me. Please do only see this as a suggestion. I'm SURE it is full of mistakes/errors !!

It applies to 2.31 btw. Please discuss this idea.

named-webcals.diff.tar.gz

Edit: Ahhh, nearly no file exts allowed make Alex go crazy...

[Parasyte]

Hi AlexH,

I'm looking at your github fork. I remember working on the code you've modified. I recognize it's for the webcal support. But what does it actually do? Do you have an example I could look at online somewhere?

Thanks!

[AlexH]

No online example, but here's how to use it:

config.inc.php:

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$list_webcals = array(
   'MyName' => 'http://blablabla.com/calendar.php?type=student&uid=1234567&someid=12&sem=1&morevalues=2&lovelongurls=0&short=&begin=1251669600&ende=1265238000&format=ical&version=2&target=ical'
);

Normally the name of the webcal would include the complete GET-string, because it's no file and doesn't have any file-extension. But by using a key ("MyName") and my patch, the detection of the file-name is overridden and the key is used instead. I'm not completely sure what I've done though, the phpicalendar code is very hard to read (don't dare to write "spaghetti" ).

[Parasyte]

It sounds like a patch we'll want to accept. At least, the idea of giving remote webcals a local name! They are typically given an md5 hash as an identifier, and the name is generated automagically with the ICS filename. In your use case, there is no filename. I don't know what kind of fallbacks we use for that case.

[AlexH]

The "fallback" seemed to be a completely messed up web-interface.

No, to be serious:
It took the file-part of the URL, "blablabla.php?blablabla?ert&asd=234....".



By the way: I know I initially had problems using the file cache with my mod, but I don't know if I was able to resolve that, I really can't remember. But judging by the speed of the test-setup on my webhost I corrected it.

[Parasyte]

Mostly for my own reference, but here is a link to AlexH's branch on github: http://github.com/aleho/phpicalendar