Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Daily emailing of Calendar events?

[Chris Hirsch]

Well that would certainly work :-) Any estimate of completion? I figured 
I'd have to get down and dirty in php somewhere...can I help test? I 
don't know if I can afford the time to help implement..

Chris

Ralf Becker wrote:

> It has not been done so far and it is not as easy at it might sound: 
> as a web-based app phpgw, can no do something on a fixed-time, it 
> depends on users activly requesting something.
>
> I'm developing atm an API service to be able to run things like that 
> or eg. the Alarm planned in the calendar (where we might integrate 
> this), have a look at: 
> http://www.phpgroupware.org/wiki/TimedAsyncServices
>
> Ralf
>
> Chris Hirsch wrote:
>
> > Hey all..before I go trying to re-invent something that has already 
> > been done, I was wondering if anybody had already created something 
> > that would query the events in the Calendar for like the next 7 days 
> > and send out a daily email containg all of these upcoming events. I 
> > would like this to be a daily thing to give people a heads up on 
> > upcoming events.
> >
> > This sounds super easy and I was hoping that somebody had already 
> > done this or could point me in the correct direction for either a sql 
> > select statement or whatever was necessary to do this.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Chris

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