Very interesting, maybe I’ll add these as options as well!

But, things can get simple: I’ve added ICAL support to the latest released version, should help you subscribe to your events calendar in any ICAL capable soft. But the “add to google” is nice, as is the hcalendar thingie.

Well … timezones are going to be difficult to add, apparently there’s no timezone info for a user, so it’s quite useless. But I’ll leave out the “Z”, so it becomes localtime, and people just need to do the math themselves (for now) 🙂

Edit: I created a shortcode #_ICALLINK to be used for a single event

hidden works. I was just doing this the other day when I was playing with creating my own hcard output.

Is the shortcode #_ICALLINK in 3.2.3 or will it be in the next one?

I am trying to add the add event for google calendar. I have used the code snippet listed previously to add the link in my events. You can see it here:

http://miyceramics.com/blog/events/?calendar_day=2011-01-28

Every single time it generates the date it puts #dT:

201101#dT130000Z

should be

20110128T130000Z

Below is a copy of the link generated with teh #dT.

http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=test&dates=201101#dT130000Z/201101#dT130000Z&sprop=http://miyceramics.com/blog/events/?event_id=89&location=723%20S%2021%20Ave,Hollywood,%20fl&details=MIY%20Ceramics%20and%20Glass%20Studio.

Please note I put the code at the top of “Default single event format” configuration in the settings page.

Could this be caused by me version of PHP?

Thanks! That worked. Is there a way I can generate the event start time and end time as part of that line of code? As it exists right now it just generates the event as starting at 8am and ending at 8am?

Thanks this is what fixed it in case anyone else wants to know:

#_{Ymd}T#H#_{i}00Z/#_{Ymd}T#@H#_{i}00Z

You can of course use the #_ICALLINK and add that to your google calendar …

Okay I just had a brain storm. even if I can’t get the full details on my google calendar because of the formatting I can still direct people back to my events pages from the google calendar using the shortcode #_EVENTPAGEURL.

Now there is one problem the link is not active in google so people would have to copy and paste, and being that most of my customers are lazy, that is just too much work in this day and age. I found that if you put this code:

<a href="http://website.com">Link to this page</a>;

Into the details of the string sent to google it would put the link in the code. Here’s the but, EME will interprete the HTML and put it directly on your events page instead of just transfer the text on to google. Is there some kind of code or maybe do some kind / trick to get eme to not interpret the HTML in that instance?

Thanks for you great help, and quick responses! I sent a small donation today, and will contribute more in the future.

this code will let your visitors subscribe to the ical feed in their google calendar:

<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.google.com/calendar/render%3Fcid%3D[events_ical_link justurl=true]">Google Calendar</a>;

kudos to jpjoki for this post. and thanks to miyceramics for the correction

<a target="_blank" href="

http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE

&text=#_NAME

&dates=#_{Ymd}T#H#_{i}00/#_{Ymd}T#@H#_{i}00

&sprop=#_EVENTPAGEURL

&location=#_ADDRESS,#_TOWN

&details=#_LOCATION">

Google

</a>;

however this is incorrect. if i’m understanding correctly, the way it is above, it would show the correct end HOUR, but the DATE and MINUTES would NOT be correct. the second set for time should be:

#@_{Ymd}T#@H#@_{i}00

however, that actually doesn’t parse correctly all the time. sometimes #@_{Ymd} returns correctly, sometimes it comes back empty. not sure why. @franky??

two other issues i’m having:

1. the minutes are ignored and always come back as 00. any ideas?
2. can’t add #_EXCERPT to the details. (if there is an image it parses and screws up the page)

Thanks Franky

please re-read i edited some

also #ESC_EXCERPT seems to also have problems when trying to encode to url. it appears wordpress automatically encodes the url properly if there aren’t errors in the &dates field. so it appears there is no way to add the excerpt to the details

here is an example

http://www.crossfitlodo.com/event/?event_id=5

currently set the code to use this:

<a target="_blank" href="

http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE

&text=#_NAME

&dates=#_{Ymd}T#H#_{i}00/#@_{Ymd}T#@H#@_{i}00

&sprop=#_EVENTPAGEURL

&location=#_ADDRESS,#_TOWN

&details=#_LOCATION.">

Google

</a>;

you’ll see in the url the time looks something like this:

20110320T110000/T1500

so the end date and minutes are returning empty. the minutes are coming back correctly and the 00 for seconds are appended at the end…

however this one is working correctly

http://www.crossfitlodo.com/event/?event_id=4

also it seems $_{i} always returns 00 and $@_{i} returns either 00 or null.

Thanks Franky!

would that change come in the next update? if i’m going to hack the code i don’t want it to be lost upon update.

also any idea on the minutes?

it seems $_{i} always returns 00 and $@_{i} returns either 00 or null.

BINGO! 🙂

so in summary, the following is the correct way to output to google calendar:

<a target="_blank" href="

http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE

&text=#_NAME

&dates=#_{Ymd}T#H#_{i}00/#@_{Ymd}T#@H#@_{i}00

&sprop=#_EVENTPAGEURL

&location=#_ADDRESS,#_TOWN

&details=#_LOCATION.">

Google

</a>

current version (3.3.0 and earlier) following hack is required for it to work: http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/337639

it appears that hack corrects both issues regarding the minutes.

now on to getting the hCalendar microformats looking good 🙂

Use this if you want your description in the google calendar to put the link back to that events page.

Link to this page“>

Import this event to your Google Calendar

I’m really eager to implement the ability for users to subscribe to events via google calendar. Will the instructions given in this thread create a subscription to all events (events that I add in the future), or just one specific event? That’s the only thing I’m confused about…

To subscribe to events via google calendar – so that users can get new events you add or get changes, you can right now: create a google calendar. Use the already built-in placeholders to add the event to the google calendar yourself. (by viewing the list of events and clicking each “add to google calendar link”) If you change an event, you’ll have to re-add it to the google calendar manually and then actually go to the google calendar to delete the old one. And you’ll have to do the deletions manually in the google calendar.

You could do an ical link for the whole calendar, but it only updates once a day or so. That may be OK for you.

This wasn’t acceptable to me; I needed real time updates. So I’m working on writing a Google Calendar interface. I’ve got it basically working, but still needs error checking and it doesn’t work with recurrent events at all yet.

/Wendy