[Gllug] More MySQL and scripts

[Xander D Harkness]

John HEARNS wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, John Hearns wrote:
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>>Bruce Richardson wrote:
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>>>On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:14:59AM +0100, Andy wrote:
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>>>>If I was you I'd use PHP to do the queries and generate the e-mails.  PHP is
>>>>quite simple to learn and can be run as a shell as a cron task.
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>>>I'm not trying to start a PHP v Perl war - I use both.  But this is an
>>>area where Perl is much stronger.
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>>Xander, there is a standard for sending out meeting and calendaring
>>information.
>>Too early in the morning for me to remember the incantaton, but I think
>>it is an xcal attachment. Evolution does this, and I kinda wonder if Outlook
>>can accept these attachments.
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>Answering myself, that's iCalendar. And Outlook does support it.
>And a CPAN search turns up Net::ICal
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>Even better maybe, a quick Google turned up 
>http://www.horde.org/kronolith/
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It was part of kronolith that I am seeking to add to.  It does export as 
ical.  

What I would like to do is have kronolith email people when they have an 
appointment due.

Rather than what I think you are aiming at which is to email 
participants with an appointment request much as evolution does.

Kind regards
Xander

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