Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] code cleanup patch - more fixes

[Ben F. <li...@hi...>]

David Fallon wrote:

> 3. I noticed a two  issues with the generation of master_array - 
> first, the recur data wasn't being replicated to each instance of the 
> event, only the first event - so (without iterating through the whole 
> array) there was no good way to get it. So, I fixed that. This raises 
> the size of master_array by a decent amount, so it's questionable, but 
> necessary for me to implement recur details in the event popup. 

Ah, that could be really good! I've not been developing phpicalendar but 
I have been using the object the parser generates in conjunction with  a 
modified version of Jim Hu's script which turns it into RSS. I then in 
turn use the customised RSS feed in conjunction with MagpieRSS to 
generate a page of events 
(http://www.catmosearts.co.uk/calendar/events.php).

One problem I came across was that for recurring events, if the RSS feed 
started in the middle of a recurring event, the data regarding the 
recurrence was lost as it only appears in the original occurrence. The 
only way I got round it was a dirty hack which grabs the data from 6 
months in the past to make sure the recurrence data is grabbed. This  
has an obvious flaw but works for my specific needs.

The one thing that I changed in phpicalendar ical parser was to supress 
the formatting of the until date (localizeDate($dateFormat_week,$until) 
I think) because the until date was in a useless format (for my needs) 
and it was more useful for me as a unixtime. This of course meant a 
separate parser for phpicalendar and the rss generator.

Thanks for your work!

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Ben "tola" Francis            http://hippygeek.co.uk
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