[Gllug] More MySQL and scripts

John HEARNS John.Hearns at cern.ch
Wed Sep 25 06:59:35 UTC 2002


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, John Hearns wrote:

> 
> 
> Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:14:59AM +0100, Andy wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I'm not trying to start a PHP v Perl war - I use both.  But this is an
> > area where Perl is much stronger.
> >
> 
> 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.

Answering myself, that's iCalendar. And Outlook does support it.
And a CPAN search turns up Net::ICal

Even better maybe, a quick Google turned up 
http://www.horde.org/kronolith/




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