Student projects/ical

Calendar export to iCal

Background

iCal is the standard format for "streaming" event data, like RSS for calendars.

Overview

Design and construct a solution for producing public and private iCal files from the events in Moodle's calendar.

Details

1. it should be efficient and only updated when new events have been added and only when the ical file has been requested at least once
2. calendars should be produced for each course, for each user, and for the whole site (public view and private view)
3. the iCal files should be standard and compatible with, say, Google Calendar.
4. for some measure of security, calendar URLs should include a long unique encrypted string that is difficult to guess.
5. For extra points, implement an optional method of publishing direct to Google calendar (see Google Calendar API)

See this forum post too

(done in 1.8)