Fwd: Re: [kronolith] view a shared calendar with Mozilla's Calendar project

[Marc Laporte]

Hi Dennis,

I share your deception about the current state of calendar data sharing 
in PHP open source apps..

Please see the following links for some background info:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/09/21.html#a801
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1004338.html

I have researched this issue quite a bit. Some more links:
Calendar apps: http://tikiwiki.org/directory22
Calendar Server: http://tikiwiki.org/directory72
Calendar data: http://tikiwiki.org/directory73
Calendar info/resources: http://tikiwiki.org/directory98

Finally, I have compiled the ultimate calendar feature list:
http://tikiwiki.org/CalendarDev   see: Calendar features (to do)

Best regards,

M ;-)

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Marc Laporte
http://tikiwiki.org/UserPagemarclaporte



Dennis Ortsen wrote:

>Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
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>>Zitat von Dennis Ortsen <mosaic at pinetree.nl>:
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>>>>>Just for my understanding, with the RPC server you mean an XML RPC
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>>>>>can exchange information between Horde apps, Or is it intended only as
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>>>>It doesn't have to be XML and it already is beyond XML RPC.
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>>>Well, I know what XML is, and see the potential, but what can I do
>>>with the RPC
>>>server? I mean, how do I get this all to work together? Is the RPC server
>>>another module I need to install or is it already in the main part of
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>>Horde?
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>>It's built into Horde and currently there are XMLRPC and SOAP
>>implementations of the RPC server and client. SyncML drivers are currently
>>being developed.
>>RPC does what it says: remote procedure calls. Our RPC server is implemented
>>in a way that every method exposed through the modules' APIs is available
>>in the RPC server.
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>>Jan.
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>OK, now I know what it is, but what is needed to get the Mozilla Calendar to
>*talk* with Kronolith? AFAIK, Mozilla Calendar only supports iCal files, thru
>WebDAV or FTP. how do I get the iCal files *automagically* imported in
>Kronolith, and how can I *automagically* export specific (shared) calendars to
>an iCal file? If it means some kind of job within cron that executes every 15
>minutes or so, that's fine offcourse.
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>It's just a shame that there is no other way of getting any kind of calendar
>program (Mozilla Calendar, Apple iCal, Ximian Evolution, MS Outlook) to talk
>with any web-enabled calendar solution, like kronolith. Without a doubt,
>Kronolith is by far the best web-based calendar solution. There are so many
>clones, or own creations out there that do something similar, but I haven't
>been able to find something that fits it all in together. There might be
>commercial products that can do the trick, but isn't it a bit weird that you
>need commercial software to connect 2 open source products to eachother?
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>Does anyone have an idea?
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>Thanks!
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>Wkr,
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>Dennis Ortsen
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