Adding events to Outlook calendar

Hello,

How can I add calendar events to Outlook? Not sure where to start

I guess there is no way from Laravel and it's more of a vanilla PHP thing? If so I will remove this post

Thanks!

mike_isp

2 years ago

Level 3

If you're serving the calendar file to a user, so that their Outlook install can receive it and add it I think serving an .ical file/response would work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar

You could have a Laravel route return a response with the formatted data, and serve it with the text/calendar mime type.

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Snapey

2 years ago

Level 122

I guess there is no way from Laravel and it's more of a vanilla PHP thing?

by the way, incase you didn't realise You are running vanilla php.

Try researching the issue.

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Ligonsker

2 years ago

Level 8

@Snapey Yes 😅 I just meant maybe Laravel devs thought of this scenario and provided some easy to use tools (For example the easy to setup authentication)

Yep, research time :D

Snapey

2 years ago

Level 122

@Ligonsker https://github.com/spatie/calendar-links

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martinbean

2 years ago

Level 80

@ligonsker A user will need to authorise access from your application to their Microsoft account. You’d then use an OAuth token to add events to that user’s calendar.

Getting access on behalf of a user: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/auth-v2-user
Create event API endpoint: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-events

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