Workaround to fix calendar sync problems

[samliddicott]

I shall probably be closing down my server in the next couple of weeks, and so the work-around will no longer be operational.

Would anyone else (or perhaps the church?) host the workaround script? It is a single php script that makes use of /tmp to store log files to help users self-debug any failures they experience.

There is less than 2000 users making use of it.

I suppose whoever hosts it could insert advertising into the calendars Maybe the guys running ldsaudio would try? Anyone have a contact there we could put it to?

[EarloftheWest]

Sam,

Thanks for all you do. This was a great work around.
Has anyone imported this into something like Hotmail and then synced the Hotmail account with the Google account?
Thanks.

[silid]

I'll host it.

Si.

[samliddicott]

Hah - good man. I've got mormonite.com that you can host it under.

[TimRiker]

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.

[josephcreed]

I tried using the following link on my Google Calendar:

https://cdev.lds.org/phpstack/ldscalend ... xxxxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is my calendar ID.

and I get this error in:

Settings Error
Could not fetch the url because robots.txt prevents us from crawling the url.

I also noticed that when trying to test my calendar id on the page https://cdev.lds.org/phpstack/ldscalendar/ the script removes the first number, so for my test I added a 0 in front and then re-performed the test.

[TimRiker]

hmmm...

ok, modified robots.txt so phpstack is not included.

I do not see it removing any numbers from the calendar id. I'm not including ".php" in my url, but I've tried it with that included and I can still get an ical file.

[josephcreed]

Thank you.

Google let me add the calendar without error, it did not immediately sync. I will give it an hour or two and report back.

I do not see it removing any numbers from the calendar id

I put my calendar ID into the text field on the page (https://cdev.lds.org/phpstack/ldscalendar/) and when I press the button "Test My ID", the first number disappears and the test fails with text that ends in "URL does not work".

Each time I press "Test My ID", the number gets shorter by truncating the first number.

So I copied in my 19 digit number ID and then put a "0" in the front, effectively making the ID 20 digits long. The preceeding character has to be numeric for the truncating to occur, I tried adding an "a" and it stayed in placed and failed.

[josephcreed]

Thank you.

I will give it an hour or two and report back.

I am too impatient. I changed my sync link by removing the "s" from "https", and the events showed up immediately.

[TimRiker]

oops. Regex typo. removing ^[0-9] instead of [^0-9]. fixed.

I hear internally that the lds.org calendar url may be available soon over http as well as https. I don't have a timeline for that yet.