Re: [DAViCal-general] webclient

[Andrew M. <an...@mo...>]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:29 +0200, Vincent Van Houtte wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> second question, second post :)
> 
> I saw in the forums that a webclient for davical was releases last
> june, and I tried it out yesterday.

Is this:

http://wiki.davical.org/w/DAViCal_Web_Client

The instructions here did not work?
http://wiki.davical.org/w/DAViCal_Web_Client_Installation

Or some other web client I am not aware of?


> I had to install PDO and a driver to be able to configure it, and I
> could not find any documentation, except for a japanese website
> (http://zoka.jp/wiki/index.php?ubuntu) with a small installation manual:
> 
> # sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql
> # sudo apt-get install php5-dev php-pear php5-mcrypt
> # sudo chown www-data:www-data webcal
> # sudo pecl install pdo
> # sudo pecl install pdo_pgsql
> # sudo pecl install pdo_sqlite
> # sudo pecl install mcrypt
> # /etc/php5/apache2/php.iniおよび/etc/php5/cli/php.iniに追記
> 	extension=pdo.so
> 	extension=pdo_pgsql.so
> 	extension=mcrypt.so
> 	extension=pdo_sqlite.so
> 
> the pdo_sqlite would not install correctly, so I could not get it
> installed. Furthermore, the PDO-installation messed up my
> pqsql-connections, so I had to undo all steps to get my intranet back
> up.

Those instructions are a curious mix of instructions for Debian/Ubuntu
instructions for !Debian/Ubuntu.  In particular the pecl commands seem
to me to be a problem and it would be better to install using the
packages.  The php5-pgsql package already includes the pdo_pgsql module,
so it should be possible to just enable those in the php.ini without
needing the 'sudo pecl ...' stuff.


> My question:
> I would like to be able to read the calendars from outside the office,
> and preferably through the intranet-website I'm setting up. Reading
> the pgsql-tables would be no problem with php/pgsql, but would it also
> be possible to write new calendar entries with php/pgsql, without
> messing up the caldav stores?

It's theoretically possible to do so, but it's undoubtedly fragile and
unsupported in practise.  A better way would be to construct an
iCalendar for the new/changed event and passing it to one of the DAViCal
functions in inc/caldav-PUT-functions.php.  Better still would be to
hand that iCalendar into inc/caldav-client.php to PUSH it via CalDAV.

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan.

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