Add2Calendar

Allow you to add event to calendar easier

Feature

• Single Event: Google
• Single Event: iCal
• Single Event: Outlook
• Single Event: Outlook Online (disabled since v1.1.0)
• Single Event: Yahoo!
• Multi Event: iCal
• Multi Event: Outlook

Compatible with all browsers:

• Google Chrome 19+
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5+
• Safari 6+
• Internet Explorer 10+
• Opera 11.5

Getting Started

Install

1. Install via `npm`
1.1 Install npm
1.2 Install package: `npm install --save add2calendar`

2. Install via `bower`
2.1 Install npm
2.2 Install bower: `npm install -g bower`
2.3 Install package: `bower install --save add2calendar`

Example usage

var singleEventArgs = {
  title       : 'Add2Calendar plugin event',
  start       : 'July 27, 2016 10:30',
  end         : 'July 29, 2016 19:20',
  location    : 'Bangkok, Thailand',
  description : 'Event description'
};
var singleEvent = new Add2Calendar(singleEventArgs);
singleEvent.createWidget('#single-normal');

Parameters

---- Example
title       : 'Add2Calendar plugin event',
start       : 'July 27, 2016 10:30',
end         : 'July 29, 2016 19:20',
location    : 'Bangkok, Thailand',
description : 'Event description.'

---- Default
title       : ''
location    : ''
description : ''

---- Type
title       : <string>
location    : <string>
start       : <string> (date format) (required)
end         : <string> (date format) (required)
description : <string>

Why this plugin

Apologize me, if I miss something

1: Simple

2: Many plugins do not meet my requirements

2.1 [addevent.com](https://www.addevent.com/)
- Not free

2.2 [addtocalendar](http://addtocalendar.com/)
- Google: OK
- iCal: OK
- Outlook: OK
- Outlook Online: not working (tested at 25/07/2016)
- Yahoo!: incorrect end date (tested at 25/07/2016)
- They link to their own service
- They add their own "description" at the bottom of event's description

2.3 [add-to-calendar-buttons](https://github.com/carlsednaoui/add-to-calendar-buttons)
- Google: OK
- iCal: OK
- Outlook: OK
- Outlook Online: don't have
- Yahoo!: incorrect date (tested at 25/07/2016)

2.4 [jquery.addtocalendar](https://github.com/tardate/jquery.addtocalendar)
- Google: OK
- iCal: don't have
- Outlook: don't have
- Outlook Online: incorrect date, event and description not working (tested at 25/07/2016)
- Yahoo!: OK

Important changelog

1.1.0
- Remove `setLang` API (using `setOption` instead)
- Remove outlook-online from the list

1.0.0
- First release

Future Update

• Update Google format to new format
• Submit to bower
• Submit to npm
• Wordpress plugin
• start and end parameters can be Date objet
• Refactor
• Unit test
• Create default value of end variable (should be equal start + 1 day)
• Support ES6 (module export)
• Complete DocBlockr
• Support callback function
• Set language
• Support download attr
• Refactor
• Refactor option parameter
• Implement tape
• Separate utilitie function of out main file

Format and others

• escape() vs encodeURI()
• .ics vs .vcs
• Timezone
• Google Format: 1, 2, 3
• iCal Format: ICalendar, 1.0 format(vcs), 2.0 format(ics)
• URL Encoding
• Date.prototype.toISOString()
• Outlook: Linking to calendars
• Adding Events to Users Calendars – Part 2 – Web Calendars

Helper tool

• htmlviewer
• css-beautify-minify
• jsbeautifier.org
• countrycode.org