emailing an outlook appointment...

[gilly914]

Hey There,

I'm trying to creat a wev application that will be able to send an outlook appointment message to someone's email...

Does anyone know how to do this???

Thanks in Advance,
Gilly914

[PeejAvery]

If you are going to interface with Outlook, you will have to use a Windows scripting language or application. VBScript might be able to do this, but I could not tell you exactly how.

[KrisSimonis]

I Googled on 'outlook appointment email'. This link looked promising. I can't check it out myself since I can't access the net except for pages that are whitelisted from this machine.
Evil 'Other' Forum link ;) (www.thescripts.com/forum/thread51203.html )

[gilly914]

KrisSimons - The link didn't help me, just another curious fellow like me that posted a question in a forum and didn't recieve an answer...

PeejAvery - I think there is some kind of header that you can add to an email to turn it into an appointment...

I'll keep looking, and keep you guys posted if i find something...
Maybe it'll help you some day...


Thanks Anyway,
Gilly914

[PeejAvery]

PeejAvery - I think there is some kind of header that you can add to an email to turn it into an appointment...
If that is the case, then reading the raw format should distinguish the difference. Are you able to see the appointment in raw format? I know that e-mails can be.

[gilly914]

Are you able to see the appointment in raw format?

Yes! you are able to see the appointment files, also known as .csv files in raw format, and they are pretty simple to understand.
They use the microsoft vCalendar class.

After searching quite a bit, i finally found a nice tutorial that explains how to create these files through PHP.

So for everyone and anyone who wants to know how to create these files - check out this cool tutorial :
Using PHP to create basic vCalendar/iCalendar events (http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/chow20021007.php3?page=1)


Enjoy!
Gilly914
:)