iSAMS Calendar into WordPress or Joomla

[qwerty94]

Hi All

 

Has anyone got the iSAMS Calendar showing in either a Wordpress or Joomla site?

 

Thanks!

[TechMonkey]

I've not done it but if you have access to the API, then all the information is made available there. It is an XML file so easily read.

[mavhc]

Will it publish an ical feed?

[qwerty94]

Not ical, we get two feed options:

 

http://training.isams.co.uk/system/api/feeds/calendar.ashx

or

http://training.isams.co.uk/system/api/feeds/calendar_rss.ashx

 

The bit i'm struggling with is finding a plugin/extension for either platform that can make use of the live feed URL to display as a calendar.

[mavhc]

Hmm, don't see any public docs on the formats, can you paste examples?

[slugshead]

Not ical, we get two feed options:

 

http://training.isams.co.uk/system/api/feeds/calendar.ashx

or

http://training.isams.co.uk/system/api/feeds/calendar_rss.ashx

 

The bit i'm struggling with is finding a plugin/extension for either platform that can make use of the live feed URL to display as a calendar.

 

We used to use EventON plugin on our intranet, looks slick can import ics but the modules all have a cost

[qwerty94]

Hmm, don't see any public docs on the formats, can you paste examples?

 

Just having a look at the API docs, which I think will be more suitable then the feeds for what we need to achieve:

 

<Event Id="974" CategoryId="26" SubategoryId="5"> <Category>26Category> <Subcategory>5Subcategory> <NationalCurriculumYear>0NationalCurriculumYear> <StartDate>2014-12-17T00:00:00StartDate> <EndDate>2014-12-21T00:00:00EndDate> <AllDayEvent>0AllDayEvent> <StartTime>1900-01-01T08:30:00StartTime> <EndTime>1900-01-01T16:00:00EndTime> <Description>1st XI Hockey Tour to Barcelona (until 21st).Description> <Location>BarcelonaLocation> <Notes>Do not forget your passport.Notes> <Hidden>0Hidden> <Ordinal>1Ordinal> <Edited>1Edited> <Late>1Late> <Types>...Types>Event>

[mavhc]

Do they provide an XML DTD?

[qwerty94]

[dhicks]

Has anyone got the iSAMS Calendar showing in either a Wordpress or Joomla site?

 

We use SalamanderSoft to export our iSAMS calendar to Google Calendar, from which we can export as an iCal (.ICS) file - there'll be a Wordpress plugin somewhere that displays iCal for you. The iCal format isn't complicated, being just a set of records in text format, so you could possibly write a script to convert the XML exported from iSAMS straight to iCal. I thought I remembered writing some code that did this at some point, but I can't find it. I do have a script that takes an iCal file and produces a printed calendar from a .DOCX template - we use it to produce a print-able (PDF) "school diary" document we can put on the school website for parents to download (and print) if they want.