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I've been writing a tool to export vBulletin forum events to give us live ical (rfc2445) export support, and so far it works fairly well for all forum events ("all day", ranged, recurring weekly, monthly, annually, etc.) I've included spport for most of the Olson timezone info, by adding a few custom event fields to our vBulletin events DB, so things like Daylight Saving Time seems to work properly.
I've been able to test it on Apple's iCal, Mozilla SunBird (which has bugs and incomplete support of all RFC options like WKST, invalid packaging of UNTIL to UTC, and a few others, ATM), korganizer, and php-icalander.
I'm in the process of reviewing the code to optimize sections and perform some security checks. When I am done, I hope to make it OpenSource.
What I would really like to see is an ical import tool (even flatfile import would be fine.) I could start work on this too, and build a tokenizer, parser, syntax checker, and conversion/import tool, but that is a lot more work, and requires dealing with clients that violate the RFC.
Before I consider this, is there such an import tool? Are there plans to add support for this to future releases of vBulletin? (I found threads here from years back where is was requested, and more recent threads too, but nothing about a timeline.)
Also, I would like to know what is considered the best, most-current, introduction or HOWTO for building a "plugin" that can be configured from the AdminCP. (I have found a few threads here, and some offsite, but want to know which you all consider to be the best. (One of the threads mentioned there were no admincp hooks, and another suggested a work-around.) All I need support for, is the setting of specific variables that wouldbe used by the export tool to allow for customization for different sites.
Lastly, I am an admin on a licensed vbulletin site, but the person that purchased the license has not yet granted me access here to have a validated account, linked with our license. This means I don't think I can view code samples yet.
Is there a ways that several of us "admins" can share the same effective access to these forums to see code samples without giving us the username/password that he used to make the purchase?
(Step-by-step procedures for how he would add other site admins to this space would be great, so we could just point the buyer to the directions and have him follow them.)
I've been writing a tool to export vBulletin forum events to give us live ical (rfc2445) export support, and so far it works fairly well for all forum events ("all day", ranged, recurring weekly, monthly, annually, etc.) I've included spport for most of the Olson timezone info, by adding a few custom event fields to our vBulletin events DB, so things like Daylight Saving Time seems to work properly.
I've been able to test it on Apple's iCal, Mozilla SunBird (which has bugs and incomplete support of all RFC options like WKST, invalid packaging of UNTIL to UTC, and a few others, ATM), korganizer, and php-icalander.
I'm in the process of reviewing the code to optimize sections and perform some security checks. When I am done, I hope to make it OpenSource.
What I would really like to see is an ical import tool (even flatfile import would be fine.) I could start work on this too, and build a tokenizer, parser, syntax checker, and conversion/import tool, but that is a lot more work, and requires dealing with clients that violate the RFC.
Before I consider this, is there such an import tool? Are there plans to add support for this to future releases of vBulletin? (I found threads here from years back where is was requested, and more recent threads too, but nothing about a timeline.)
Also, I would like to know what is considered the best, most-current, introduction or HOWTO for building a "plugin" that can be configured from the AdminCP. (I have found a few threads here, and some offsite, but want to know which you all consider to be the best. (One of the threads mentioned there were no admincp hooks, and another suggested a work-around.) All I need support for, is the setting of specific variables that wouldbe used by the export tool to allow for customization for different sites.
Lastly, I am an admin on a licensed vbulletin site, but the person that purchased the license has not yet granted me access here to have a validated account, linked with our license. This means I don't think I can view code samples yet.
Is there a ways that several of us "admins" can share the same effective access to these forums to see code samples without giving us the username/password that he used to make the purchase?
(Step-by-step procedures for how he would add other site admins to this space would be great, so we could just point the buyer to the directions and have him follow them.)
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