Snippet Name: Send iCal Email Meeting Requests using PHP
Description: Awesome function from Julian Young. Send iCal Email Meeting Requests using PHP! Ensure those buttons show up in Outlook! Tested in Outlook 2003/2007, on Exchange Server 2003 Mailboxes, Google Calendar, Google Mail, Hotmail. includes downloadable source and example usage.
http://www.julian-young.com/2009/07/07/php-ical-email/
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Language: PHP
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Last Modified: March 16th, 2009
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<?PHP
//$firstname is the first name of target
//$lastname is the last name of target
//$email is the targets email address
//$meeting_date is straight from a DATETIME mysql field and assumes UTC.
//$meeting_name is the name of your meeting
//$meeting_duretion is the duration of your meeting in seconds (3600 = 1 hour)
FUNCTION sendIcalEmail($firstname,$lastname,$email,$meeting_date,$meeting_name,$meeting_duration) {
$from_name = "My Name";
$from_address = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Meeting Booking"; //Doubles as email subject and meeting subject in calendar
$meeting_description = "Here is a brief description of my meeting\n\n";
$meeting_location = "My Office"; //Where will your meeting take place
//Convert MYSQL datetime and construct iCal start, end and issue dates
$meetingstamp = STRTOTIME($meeting_date . " UTC");
$dtstart= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp);
$dtend= GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z",$meetingstamp+$meeting_duration);
$todaystamp = GMDATE("Ymd\THis\Z");
//Create unique identifier
$cal_uid = DATE('Ymd').'T'.DATE('His')."-".RAND()."@mydomain.com";
//Create Mime Boundry
$mime_boundary = "----Meeting Booking----".MD5(TIME());
//Create Email Headers
$headers = "From: ".$from_name." <".$from_address.">\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: ".$from_name." <".$from_address.">\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$mime_boundary\"\n";
$headers .= "Content-class: urn:content-classes:calendarmessage\n";
//Create Email Body (HTML)
$message .= "--$mime_boundary\n";
$message .= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n";
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
$message .= "<html>\n";
$message .= "<body>\n";
$message .= '<p>Dear '.$firstname.' '.$lastname.',</p>';
$message .= '<p>Here is my HTML Email / Used for Meeting Description</p>';
$message .= "</body>\n";
$message .= "</html>\n";
$message .= "--$mime_boundary\n";
//Create ICAL Content (Google rfc 2445 for details and examples of usage)
$ical = 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:'.$from_address.'
DTSTART:'.$dtstart.'
DTEND:'.$dtend.'
LOCATION:'.$meeting_location.'
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:'.$cal_uid.'
DTSTAMP:'.$todaystamp.'
DESCRIPTION:'.$meeting_description.'
SUMMARY:'.$subject.'
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR';
$message .= 'Content-Type: text/calendar;name="meeting.ics";method=REQUEST\n';
$message .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n";
$message .= $ical;
//SEND MAIL
$mail_sent = @MAIL( $email, $subject, $message, $headers );
IF($mail_sent) {
RETURN TRUE;
} ELSE {
RETURN FALSE;
}
}
?>
/////////// example- test.php
<?PHP
INCLUDE ("iCal.php");
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>iCal Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?PHP
//$firstname is the first name of target
//$lastname is the last name of target
//$email is the targets email address
//$meeting_date is straight from a DATETIME mysql field and assumes UTC.
//$meeting_name is the name of your meeting
//$meeting_duration is the duration of your meeting in seconds (3600 = 1 hour)
$firstname = "John";
$lastname = "Smith";
$email = "[email protected]";
$meeting_date = "2010-07-06 13:40:00"; //mysql format
$meeting_name = "Hello";
$meeting_duration = 3600;
//returns true or false
$result = sendIcalEmail($firstname,$lastname,$email,$meeting_date,$meeting_name,$meeting_duration);
//display result
IF($result) {
ECHO "Email sent successfully.";
} ELSE {
ECHO "A problem occurred sending email";
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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