Sorry, wasn't able to test this when I got home. But to clearify, when you use COM, it's loading Outlook (as you've seen) and then talking directly to it. So you don't need an exchange server to make it work. Try tracing through the code and see where it's failing. And nothing's showing up when you do "View source" (I know you said it's continuously running but curious what happens if you stop the page load and see what's been output)? Have you tried running the script via command line? I'd be curious to see how far the script gets for you before it bombs out. It might be trying to tell Outlook to do something and just hanging (hence the perpetual loading in your browser) which is why I'm wondering how far it gets and what happens if you run it via command-line. More info would definitely be appreciated. -TG = = = Original message = = = Still no luck I am afraid. Same thing happens - it kicks off an instance of Outlook.exe on the server, but the page never loads, it just stays blank with a never-ending progress bar. I thought it could be security related but have shared out my Calendar with default having reviewer access. I am using an Exchange server but don't want to follow the route of sharing Calendars and accessing them in Outlook. Is the problem with the script that it has to access an Exchange server to read the Calendar, even while Outlook is installed on the server and configured with the same profile? Thanks Justin -----Original Message----- From: tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2005 1:01 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Baiocchi, Justin (CSIRO IT, Armidale) Subject: Re: Displaying an Outlook Calendar on a webpage using PHP That looks like some of my code.. or a derivative of my code. For some reason, my PC at work here is having issues with PHP instantiating with COM so I can't test this, but the code you posted is conspicuously missing all the braces . I'm guessing that's not your issue though... or else you'd be getting some kind of error maybe. Anyway, here's a re-braced version of the code. It should produce something when run through a web browser, but you might View Source and see what shows up there. This does require Outlook to be installed on the PC that PHP is running on, as that's how COM works. I never messed around with remote COM calls, but I'm sure there's some way to do that. If someone wants to try this code and see if there are other issues besides the missing braces. I don't see anything obviously wrong with it (besides maybe some sloppy programming on my part :). I'll see about checking it when I get home tonight if I have time. <?php $comobjOutlook = new COM("outlook.application") or die("Outlook not loaded"); //$comobjOutlook -> Activate; # This is your mailbox name just like it appears in your Folders view. # It might be 'Inbox' or something else. $targetmailboxname = "Mailbox - Baiocchi, Justin (CSIRO IT, Armidale)"; # This is the folder you're looking for. In this case, I'm looking for calendar # items, but you can look for any folder. You need to add another loop to look # for subfolders. Although there's probably a better way, that's how I did it when # I needed to get to Personal Folders/Inbox/Subfoldername $targetfoldername = "Calendar"; $objNamespace = $comobjOutlook->GetNameSpace("MAPI"); $objFolders = $objNamespace->Folders(); $mailboxcount = $objFolders -> Count(); $foundmailbox = FALSE; for ($i=1; $i<=$mailboxcount; $i++) $folderitem = $objFolders ->Item($i); if ($folderitem -> Name == $targetmailboxname) $objMailbox = $folderitem; $foundmailbox = TRUE; $foundcal = FALSE; if ($foundmailbox) $objFolders = $objMailbox->Folders(); $foldercount = $objFolders -> Count(); for ($i=1; $i<=$foldercount; $i++) $folderitem = $objFolders -> Item($i); if ($folderitem -> Name == $targetfoldername) $objCalendar = $folderitem; $foundcal = TRUE; if ($foundcal) $objItems = $objCalendar->Items(); $itemcount = $objItems->Count(); for ($i=1; $i<=$itemcount; $i++) $apptitem = $objItems -> Item($i); $apptstart = $apptitem -> Start(); $apptend = $apptitem -> End(); $apptallday = $apptitem -> AllDayEvent(); $apptrecur = $apptitem -> IsRecurring(); $apptsubject = $apptitem -> Subject(); $apptlocation = $apptitem -> Location(); $secondsadj = $apptstart - 14400; $startadj = date("m/d/Y H:i:s", mktime(0,0,$secondsadj,1,1,1970)); $secondsadj = $apptend - 14400; $endadj = date("m/d/Y H:i:s", mktime(0,0,$secondsadj,1,1,1970)); if($apptallday) $allday = "All Day"; else $allday = ""; if($apptrecur) $recurring = "Recurring"; else $recurring = ""; echo "$apptsubject @ $apptlocation\r\nFrom: $startadj To: $endadj\r\n"; if ($allday <> "" OR $recurring <> "") echo "$allday $recurring\r\n"; echo "\r\n\r\n"; else die ("Did not find calendar folder"); else die("Did not find target mailbox: $targetmailboxname"); ?> = = = Original message = = = Hello all, I am trying to publish an Outlook Calendar on a web page using PHP and COM. I have managed to track down on the net some examples of how it could be done. The most promising is the code below. However, all that happens is that outlook.exe is started on the server, but nothing is displayed on the web page and it just times-out. I am running PHP 4.0.18 on Windows 2003 server and I have Outlook 2002 installed on the server. Does anybody know why it doesn't work? Thanks Justin ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
