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slider · Jun 3, 2004, 01:56 PM

Hello all,

My question is this. Can you publish iCal to a WebDAV server and view it as a webpage like you can when you publish to .Mac? Our webpage host might be able to put webdav on his server, but he is not sure if one would be able to view it inside a browser. He thinks that might be a .Mac thing only. My employer is still using OS 9 and does not feel the need to update. There are a few OS X machines and I would like the company schedule to go up on the internet so OS 9 users can access it via a web browser.

If anyone know of a program that can view iCal calendars that would be good too. I saw that mozilla.org has taken this open source standard and made it so you can subscribe to icals and view them in the installable plugin. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

unfortunately this does not work in Netscape 7.02 or mozilla 1.2.1, the last releases of this respective browsers for OS 9.

Worst case senerio, I could always just publish to .Mac account, but I would rather have this be an seperate.

Thanks,

slider

larkost · Jun 3, 2004, 02:06 PM

Take a look at http://phpicalendar.sourceforge.net/nuke/

slider · Jun 3, 2004, 02:57 PM

Thank you, but I don't know what that is. Not a lot of data on site.

larkost · Jun 3, 2004, 04:10 PM

There is plenty of information on that site... Take a look at the demo calendar if you don't know what you are looking at. Then look at the FAQ... In other words: explore the site a bit... then start asking google some questions...

Then, once you have done your homework... then start asking clarifying questions.

slider · Jun 3, 2004, 06:50 PM

Hmm, Right. Well I did look at the site quite a bit, the demo and the two line faq before I posted my "Thank you". I do appreciate your response, but it's not what i am looking for.

MadBrowser · Jun 3, 2004, 09:16 PM

You need something like that to render the ical files for the Web.

You can't just dump the files on the server and view them.

You need a rendering component, like what the previous poster linked to.

m.brown · 03:52 AM

Originally posted by slider:
Hello all,

My question is this. Can you publish iCal to a WebDAV server and view it as a webpage like you can when you publish to .Mac? Our webpage host might be able to put webdav on his server, but he is not sure if one would be able to view it inside a browser. He thinks that might be a .Mac thing only. My employer is still using OS 9 and does not feel the need to update. There are a few OS X machines and I would like the company schedule to go up on the internet so OS 9 users can access it via a web browser.

No - you can subscribe/publish via iCal or through apps. that can read iCal files (such as Mozilla Calendar) using webDAV, but not view the calendar as a webpage unless you parse the data into HTML - which is exactly what phpicalendar does.

slider · Jun 4, 2004, 05:34 PM

Originally posted by MadBrowser:
You need something like that to render the ical files for the Web.

You can't just dump the files on the server and view them.

You need a rendering component, like what the previous poster linked to.

Ah, that explains it, I understand now, thank you.

Seems like the easiest solution is to simply use a little space on my .mac account after all.

Mithras · Jun 4, 2004, 05:52 PM

Phpicalendar is really very easy to set up, assuming you have a server running PHP (like, say, a Mac). I'd be happy to give you pointers if you decide to go that way.

strokemouth · Jun 4, 2004, 07:24 PM

I use phpicalendar and just use iCal FTP to upload the .ics.

phpicalendar also has an RSS feed, so I use that to list each day's events right on my webpage.

m.brown · Jun 5, 2004, 03:48 AM

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slider · Jun 6, 2004, 08:29 AM

Thank you all.

I had set up an account with iCal Exchange. At first I thought it didn't work b/c I unable to see my calendars, but I had just rechecked and there it is. Did I quick test by making some changes on that calendar updated, updated without any problems. I did notice that it say it's powered by both webdav and php calendar. This seems like a pretty simple solution. One of the issue I was deal/am dealing with (constantly) is that while I am sure I would have no problem implementing some of the suggestions made here, the folks at work are far from computer savvy (what you think as someone not computer savvy and one step further back).

www.icalexchange.com