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December 22, 2004

Get Mozilla Calendar to Update php iCalendar

Recently I have been working with an online calendar. However I ran into a problem, how to synchronize it with a desktop calendar.
For this I used Mozilla's Sunbird calendar. I wanted it to sync with php iCalendar (site currently down). I currently have the file stored here. And the web hosting has ftp capabilities.
Installation of the calendar only required extracting the archive
   tar -xvzf phpicalendar-1.1.gz
This creates a folder called phpicalendar-1.1 I moved this folder into a web accessible directory and renamed it calendar to make it easier to navigate to.
Most of the defaults in the config file (config.inc.php) are sufficient except verify the following setting
   auth_method = 'ftp'


Click on the image for a larger view.		In the Mozilla Sunbird click on File => New Calendar File
In the dialog box that appears (shown at left) enter a name for the calendar and the remote server url like this
    ftp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@ftp.path.to.the.ics.file
And check the box to Automatically publish changes

Then Sunbird will download the calendar from the server and you can make changes and they will automatically be reflected on the web calendar.

Posted by Stephen at 11:10 AM | Comments (0)