Workaround to fix calendar sync problems

Discussions about the Calendar Tool at lds.org. Questions about the calendar on the classic site should be posted in the LUWS forum.
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samliddicott
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TimRiker wrote:I don't know what the status on this is... I've added your script to the phpstack project. The test site for phpstack is here:

https://cdev.lds.org/phpstack/
https://cdev.lds.org/phpstack/ldscalendar/

I hope this is ok with you. Anyone here interested can join the phpstack project to work on this and other php scripts that often get reused on other projects.

I added proxy support to get to the lds.org original page from the community DMZ where this server is hosted. I cleaned up some warnings. I think it's working now. Testers welcome.

samliddicott I added you as a developer on the phpstack project. There's no attribution in the script. Feel free to add your contact info. I would like to add a church copyright as well if you're ok with that.

Sure, add church copyright, that's fine.
Thanks for adding me as a dev to phpstack.

Double thanks for hosting the script there!
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The cdev.lds.org hosted workaround stopped working for me for google calendar. But google calendar is working for me. Has it been fixed properly?
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samliddicott wrote:The cdev.lds.org hosted workaround stopped working for me for google calendar. But google calendar is working for me. Has it been fixed properly?

So, today is the first time I have needed to look into this calendar functionality, and feel very fortuate I was able to find this thread. Here has been my experience.

Using the default link provided by the calendar part of the website did not work for me in Google Calendar.

http://lds.org/church-calendar/services ... be/xxxxxxx

However, both of these did work for me:

https://mail.liddicott.com/ldscalendar.php/xxxxxxxx

https://cdev.lds.org/phpstack/ldscalendar.php/xxxxxxxxx

So for long term use, which would be the more reliable to use?

Thanks,

Brian Armstrong
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Use the first one. It appears to have been fixed.

The second one is likely shutdown. The third one stopped working for me.
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Oddly enough, the liddicott.com workaround is still the most accurate for me. After that, the new.lds.org calendar works best (shows all appointments but some from a private calendar do not get to my Android for some odd reason, though they do appear on Google online). And the lds.org calendar (the one suggested by lds.org as the correct one) does not bring over any private calendar entries, though all appear on Google calendar.
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samliddicott wrote:I added this line:

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    while (($p=strpos($line, "\r", $p)) && $p<(strlen($line)-2)) $line=substr_replace($line, "\\n", $p, 1);
which replaces inline carriage returns with \n, so I hope that the wrapper is working for more people now.

I don't think any other of your changes were needed - from analyzing existing calendars there were no lines that began without an ICAL field name on the input.
I made a few changes in the top portion to make the script more portable (auto-detect the location of the page). I'm still getting my calendar feed through my hosted code, coming through nice without any issues if anyone needs a third (or fourth :p) option.
http://1b4.it/labs/lds/calendar.php
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Is the script fixing any problems? I've been going "direct" for a few months now. I haven't noticed a problem, but I know a few are strange things with special characters.
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My server is now disabled.

At one point the https://cdev.lds.org/phpstack/ldscalendar.php/xxxxxxxxx was not working but the real calendar link was; but today I find the situation has reversed so I am using https://cdev.lds.org/phpstack/ldscalendar.php/xxxxxxxxx at the moment.

I note that one of my fixes was to try and provide a fixed ical id for each event to try and avoid spurious google "event details changed" messages. I don't know if this has been fixed in the real calendar code, but mention it in case anyone reading this knows something about it.
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To one-way sync your Church calendar to your Google Calendar calendar

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CHANGE:
http://lds.org/church-calendar/services ... subscribe/......
(insecured)

TO:
https://lds.org/church-calendar/service ... subscribe/......
(secured by adding the "s" to http)

*NOTICE You are on a secured site (https) that generates your url to paste into Google. When I went to my google calendar and made the changed it started working a few minutes later.

SEE EXAMPLE:
secure google calendar https.JPG
secure google calendar https.JPG (54.54 KiB) Viewed 2207 times

:cool: - "Good day!"
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