#172 vCalendar (iCal) and vCard import for synchronisation

[Sven Utcke]

Hi,

I believe TUTOs could be much more usefull (and would
be easier accepted around here) if it could be
synchronized with people's various PDAs (Palm, Psion;
Pocket-PC) and alternative PIM software (Outlook,
Evolution, whatever). Virtually all these devices and
programms can be made to read and write vCalendar and
vCard (and some also vTodo) files. Only Tutos
can't(*). So my suggestion would be to implement vCard
and vCal import and export functions, where the import
would work as in the case of the CSV import (I would
prefer a different mechanism, but's let start with
what is there). It would then be easy (or at least
easier) to write synchronisation around this. So what
needs to be done?

a) proper vCard and vCal export --- currently only a
small part of the available information gets actually
exported. Just create an entry with several locations
and you will see what I mean.

b) vCard and vCal import. This means that we have to
write a php-based parser for these formats --- what a
pain! Maybe someone knows about an existing
library-like parser? Or any other ideas?

c) an import adresses (several!) and import apointments
(several!) interface which is able to filter out
duplicates, thereby only importing new or changed
entries (how should changes be consolidated?)

Does the above sound right, or am I missing /
overlooking something?

Sven

(*) see a) above

[Markus Elfring]

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