[EventCalendar] Re: calendar output completely broken

[Dr. Peter Troxler]

apologies to any sunbirds, ... of course sb adheres to rfc2445 which  
stipulates that the TZID has to be defined in the file we're  
exporting in a VTIMEZONE entry ... now since ec3 does not really  
handle daylight saving times &c. I'd suggest to add the following  
reduced VTIMEZONE definition to eventcalendar3.php after line 355

   echo "BEGIN:VTIMEZONE\r\n";
   echo "TZID:" . $ec3->tz . "\r\n";
   echo "TZOFFSETFROM:" . get_option($gmt_offset) . "\r\n";
   echo "TZOFFSETTO:" . get_option($gmt_offset) . "\r\n";
   echo "END: VTIMEZONE\r\n";

this is just after this code (lines 353-355)

   echo "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n";
   echo "VERSION:2.0\r\n";
   echo "X-WR-CALNAME:$name\r\n";


tested & works for url import with sunbird and gCal.

'nuff

/ pt




On 20-sep-2007, at 21:28, Dr. Peter Troxler wrote:

> hmmm, just found out that eliminating the TZID info altogether  
> allows sunbird to import the file ... now I have the impression  
> that sunbird is even more broken than gCal when it comes to  
> implementing rfc2445, and I think I'll definitely stop debugging  
> here ;-)
>
> / pt
>
> On 20-sep-2007, at 20:37, Dr. Peter Troxler wrote:
>
>> Hi Claire
>>
>> (back in debugging mode again)
>>
>> I've in parallel implemented the changes on one of the sites I'm  
>> running (<http://www.scope34.org>, alas it's all in foreign  
>> (german)), and from this site URL linking into gCal worked
>>
>> see yourself <webcal://www.scope34.org/?ec3_ical>
>>
>> (however, in Sunbird I do get an error "invalid  
>> timezone" [Exception... "Component returned failure code:  
>> 0x804a0001 [calIIcalComponent.startTime]"  nsresult: "0x804a0001  
>> (<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: file:///Applications/ 
>> Sunbird.app/Contents/MacOS/js/calItemBase.js :: anonymous :: line  
>> 526"  data: no]
>>  .... my fix sends "Europe/Zurich" which I believe is a valid  
>> timezone and sunbirds mac timezone implementation maybe a little  
>> incomplete...)
>>
>> this is actually what happenes if I edit your ical file down to  
>> only the first entry, which leads me to believe that the UTF-8  
>> issue actually does have to do with some funny characters
>>
>> maybe you try to import this below into sunbird just to check ...?
>>
>> BEGIN:VCALENDAR
>> VERSION:2.0
>> X-WR-CALNAME:cops and robbers
>> BEGIN:VEVENT
>> SUMMARY:Jeffrey Lewis & Jack Lewis\, Hands and Fingers\, Quack Quack
>> URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.copsandrobbers.net/2005/08/24/jeffrey- 
>> lewis-jack-lewis-hands-and-fingers-quack-quack/
>> UID:1-http://www.copsandrobbers.net/2005/08/24/jeffrey-lewis-jack- 
>> lewis-hands-and-fingers-quack-quack/
>> DESCRIPTION:[by: copsandrobbers]
>> TRANSP:OPAQUE
>> DTSTART;TZID=UTC-1:20050822T200000
>> DTEND;TZID=UTC-1:20050822T200000
>> END:VEVENT
>> END:VCALENDAR
>>
>>
>> / pt
>>
>> On 20-sep-2007, at 11:41, claire circuit wrote:
>>
>>>> could it be that you have a corrupted post somewhere? e.g. <http://
>>>> www.copsandrobbers.net/2007/05/17/i-concur-launch-night-
>>>> brudenell-31st-may/> gives me funny characters on the screen  
>>>> with safari
>>>
>>> i think the funny characters come from WP changing the database to
>>> latin in 2.3. it's definitely a database encoding problem.
>>>
>>> since the feed loads OK in iCal, and validates, i can't help  
>>> thinking
>>> that the plugin is just generating a field or variable that  
>>> google and
>>> sunbird don't like.
>>>
>>> claire
>>>
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