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Re: URLs in iCalendar events: msg#00004

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Subject: Re: URLs in iCalendar events

HI, we don't have support for the URL property tag of RFC2445. To my knowledge I haven't seen an application that uses is and it's never been requested by our audience.

You can put URLs directly into the Description field and we'll convert them into an href upon displace. I also believe we do this for the Location field as well.

If you want to submit a feature request, please do so on the Sourceforge site and attach a sample calendar.

Thanks,
Chad


On Feb 9, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Ben Francis wrote:

Hi all.

I can't seem to get phpicalendar to display the URLs associated with calendar objects. Each event in my calendar has a web page associated with it which gives further details (retrieved from a mysql database) about the event. I had toyed with the idea of actually putting this data within the iCal file itself, but I don't think it's flexible enough. I need to be able to separate it into lots of fields such as "price" "film rating" and things. So I'm trying to put a link in each calendar object to point to more information.

Is the URL feature of calendar events turned off in phpicalendar on purpose, perhaps because of security issues? Is it possible to turn it on? Are there issues associated with this?

Many Thanks

Ben


Extract from Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification which I think is relevant
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2445.html):
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4.8.4.6 Uniform Resource Locator

Property Name: URL

Purpose: This property defines a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
associated with the iCalendar object.

Value Type: URI

Property Parameters: Non-standard property parameters can be
specified on this property.

Conformance: This property can be specified once in the "VEVENT",
"VTODO", "VJOURNAL" or "VFREEBUSY" calendar components.

Description: This property may be used in a calendar component to
convey a location where a more dynamic rendition of the calendar
information associated with the calendar component can be found. This
memo does not attempt to standardize the form of the URI, nor the
format of the resource pointed to by the property value. If the URL
property and Content-Location MIME header are both specified, they
MUST point to the same resource.

Format Definition: The property is defined by the following notation:

url = "URL" urlparam ":" uri CRLF

urlparam = *(";" xparam)

Example: The following is an example of this property:

URL:http://abc.com/pub/calendars/jsmith/mytime.ics

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