HTML Anchor to calendar?

anchor, html, uri

Solution

You'll need to use a combination of the `webcal` link as well as a dynamically created ics file. Usage of `webcal` would be as follows:

<a href="webcal://createCal.php?title=Title&amp;start=timestamp&amp;end=timestamp&amp;description=Arbitrary%20description%20text">Link</a>

However, for best compatibility, I think your best bet would be to just link directly to the `ics` file:

<a href="createCal.php?title=Title&amp;start=timestamp&amp;end=timestamp&amp;description=Arbitrary%20description%20text">Link</a>

Then, in the `createCal.php` file (or whichever your programming language of choice is) you could do something similar to this article to create an `ics` file on the fly that the user could import into their calendar program of choice.

Here's another sample I found for the contents of the PHP file (note that this isn't tested, but more so a starting point):

<?php
//Set the content-type of the file
header("Content-Type: text/Calendar");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=Calendar.ics");
echo "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n";
echo "PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN\n";
echo "VERSION:2.0\n";
echo "METHOD:PUBLISH\n";
echo "X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE\n";
echo "BEGIN:VEVENT\n";
echo "CLASS:PUBLIC\n";
echo "CREATED:".date('Ymd\THis', time())."\n";
echo "DESCRIPTION:".$_GET['description'];
echo "DTEND:".date('Ymd\THis', $_GET['end'])."\n";
echo "DTSTAMP:".date('Ymd\THis', time())."\n";
echo "DTSTART:".date('Ymd\THis', $_GET['start'])."\n";
echo "LAST-MODIFIED:".date('Ymd\THis', time())."\n";
echo "LOCATION:\n";
echo "PRIORITY:5\n";
echo "SEQUENCE:0\n";
echo "SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:".$_GET['title']."\n";
echo "TRANSP:OPAQUE\n";
echo "UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E008000000008062306C6261CA01000000000000000\n";
echo "X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY\n";
echo "X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1\n";
echo "X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE\n";
echo "X-MS-OLK-ALLOWEXTERNCHECK:TRUE\n";
echo "X-MS-OLK-AUTOFILLLOCATION:FALSE\n";
echo "X-MS-OLK-CONFTYPE:0\n";
//Here is to set the reminder for the event.
echo "BEGIN:VALARM\n";
echo "TRIGGER:-PT1440M\n";
echo "ACTION:DISPLAY\n";
echo "DESCRIPTION:Reminder\n";
echo "END:VALARM\n";
echo "END:VEVENT\n";
echo "END:VCALENDAR\n";
?>

Problem

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