Hi,
I started working on a Calendar preview for RoundCube, as this is a major issue for web mail users - at least in my company - and current solutions don't offer any options to do (Squirrelmail for example).
Three things:
- I would like to hear about other's thoughts on this
- I would like to hear about someone else's experience with parsing iCal in
PHP (I have done work under Perl by using modules) 3) I would like to hear how such integration would be expected... I am planning on building a calendar view, not a single entry viewer for the items... i.e. you would see today/week/month's events
You might want to take a look at the PHPiCalendar project here: http://www.phpicalendar.net
They are parsing iCal (*.ics) files with PHP. The forums are pretty active, and the developers post updates regularly. As an active user of PHPiCalendar, I can tell you it works very well, and I'd love to see this integrated with RoundCube.
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:31:44 +0300, Noam Rathaus noamr@beyondsecurity.com wrote:
Hi,
I started working on a Calendar preview for RoundCube, as this is a major issue for web mail users - at least in my company - and current solutions don't offer any options to do (Squirrelmail for example).
Three things:
- I would like to hear about other's thoughts on this
- I would like to hear about someone else's experience with parsing iCal
in PHP (I have done work under Perl by using modules) 3) I would like to hear how such integration would be expected... I am planning on building a calendar view, not a single entry viewer for the items... i.e. you would see today/week/month's events
--
Noam Rathaus CTO Beyond Security Ltd.
Noam Rathaus wrote:
Hi,
I started working on a Calendar preview for RoundCube, as this is a major issue for web mail users - at least in my company - and current solutions don't offer any options to do (Squirrelmail for example).
I know Horde has a calendar application as an option.
Three things:
- I would like to hear about other's thoughts on this
It's a good idea too. But I think we the focus should be on more features for webmail first. Like searching and sorting. But I know Thomas is working on a roadmap.
- I would like to hear about someone else's experience with parsing iCal in
PHP (I have done work under Perl by using modules)
Maybe you can have a look at http://pear.php.net/package/Calendar/docs ?
I am not if it's viable or not.
- I would like to hear how such integration would be expected... I am
planning on building a calendar view, not a single entry viewer for the items... i.e. you would see today/week/month's events
Look at Horde's attempt and/or Mozilla's Sunbird attempt.
I would also recommend checking out PHPiCalendar's iCal parser, and the Pear Calendar module. It should be relatively easy to knock up a decent calendar interface using those two modules.
But regarding features, I personally think a webmail program should focus on:
- The Webmail Component
- The Address Book Component
- The Calendar Component
- Other Plugins & Extensions..
in that order, because that's what people would expect of a webmail program, IMHO. :-)
On 10/6/05, Noam Rathaus noamr@beyondsecurity.com wrote:
Hi,
I started working on a Calendar preview for RoundCube, as this is a major issue for web mail users - at least in my company - and current solutions don't offer any options to do (Squirrelmail for example).
Three things:
- I would like to hear about other's thoughts on this
- I would like to hear about someone else's experience with parsing iCal in
PHP (I have done work under Perl by using modules) 3) I would like to hear how such integration would be expected... I am planning on building a calendar view, not a single entry viewer for the items... i.e. you would see today/week/month's events
--
Noam Rathaus CTO Beyond Security Ltd.
Hi Noam,
The main goal of this project originally was to provide a browser based alternative for a common e-mail application such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook, etc. I was also thinking about adding interesting features such as a calendar, RSS reader, or virtual hard disk but for later on.
Any development would be welcome but as Jasper and Praneet already mentioned, the main goal will be making the webmail and address book work properly and to have a clean framework on both the server and the client.
There's no reason why should not start developing a calendar module but do not expect too much help from our developers yet. Also the structure of the client and the server could change in some ways. If you're familiar with CVS please try to update your development files periodically with the CVS version in order to have your copy ready to add to the official version.
I would also suggest to have a look a the PHPiCalendar project which currently provides a read-only implementation of the iCal standard.
Regards, Thomas
2005/10/6, Noam Rathaus noamr@beyondsecurity.com:
Hi,
I started working on a Calendar preview for RoundCube, as this is a major issue for web mail users - at least in my company - and current solutions don't offer any options to do (Squirrelmail for example).
Three things:
- I would like to hear about other's thoughts on this
- I would like to hear about someone else's experience with parsing iCal in
PHP (I have done work under Perl by using modules) 3) I would like to hear how such integration would be expected... I am planning on building a calendar view, not a single entry viewer for the items... i.e. you would see today/week/month's events
--
Noam Rathaus CTO Beyond Security Ltd.
Hi,
Just to add my two cents : phpIcalendar does not support all of the data field defined by the ical standard so one should take a look at this code but not take it as finished.
Olivier
Le Vendredi 7 Octobre 2005 12:23, Thomas Bruederli a écrit :
I would also suggest to have a look a the PHPiCalendar project which currently provides a read-only implementation of the iCal standard.
Regards, Thomas
2005/10/6, Noam Rathaus noamr@beyondsecurity.com:
Hi,
I started working on a Calendar preview for RoundCube, as this is a major issue for web mail users - at least in my company - and current solutions don't offer any options to do (Squirrelmail for example).
Three things:
- I would like to hear about other's thoughts on this
- I would like to hear about someone else's experience with parsing iCal
in PHP (I have done work under Perl by using modules) 3) I would like to hear how such integration would be expected... I am planning on building a calendar view, not a single entry viewer for the items... i.e. you would see today/week/month's events
--
Noam Rathaus CTO Beyond Security Ltd.
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Thomas Bruederli