WP_Mail ICS Outlook Meeting Invite

  • Resolved A31

    (@a31)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    Good Evening,

    I hope that someone can help me.

    What I would like to achieve is to send an ics or Outlook Meeting invite through an email.

    So here is some of my code (i only copy relevant parts because i use a class that manages mailer, the same class sends normal email perfectly):

    $date = "20170515";
$startTime = "1300";
$endTime = "1400";
$subject = "Meeting";
$desc = "Details";

    $SendMail_To = '[email protected]';
    $SendMail_Subject = 'TESTING';
    $SendMail_Message = "
            BEGIN:VCALENDAR
            VERSION:2.0
            PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
            BEGIN:VEVENT
            UID:" . md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true)) . "example.com
            DTSTAMP:" . gmdate('Ymd').'T'. gmdate('His') . "Z
            DTSTART:".$date."T".$startTime."00Z
            DTEND:".$date."T".$endTime."00Z
            SUMMARY:".$subject."
            DESCRIPTION:".$desc."
            END:VEVENT
            END:VCALENDAR
            ";

    Then in my mailer class I change the following:

    function set_html_content_type()
{
   //return 'text/html';
   return 'text/calendar';
}
                    
add_filter ('wp_mail_content_type', 'set_html_content_type' );
                    
                    wp_mail($SendMail_To,$SendMail_Subject,$SendMail_Message,$Headers,$Attachment_Array);
                                        
remove_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'set_html_content_type' );

    I receive the email fine, and there is a Calendar Item attached, but when I want to open the attachment, it tells me that it cannot open the file.

    Can you please help?

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  • Thread Starter A31

    (@a31)

    As luck would have it… many hours before the query… but right after I post for help , I get a solution. Here is my code now:

    $sequence = 0;
$event_id = 1234;
$status = 'TENTATIVE';

$start = '20170510';
$start_time = '160630';
$end = '20170510';
$end_time = '180630';
$subject = "Meeting";
$desc = "Details";

$ical = "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\n";
$ical .= "VERSION:2.0\r\n";
$ical .= "PRODID:-//YourCassavaLtd//EateriesDept//EN\r\n";
$ical .= "METHOD:REQUEST\r\n";
$ical .= "BEGIN:VEVENT\r\n";
$ical .= "ORGANIZER;SENT-BY=\"MAILTO:[email protected]\":MAILTO:[email protected]\r\n";
$ical .= "ATTENDEE;[email protected];ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE:mailto:[email protected]\r\n";
$ical .= "UID:".strtoupper(md5($event_id))."-kaserver.com\r\n";
$ical .= "SEQUENCE:".$sequence."\r\n";
$ical .= "STATUS:".$status."\r\n";
$ical .= "DTSTAMPTZID=Africa/Nairobi:".date('Ymd').'T'.date('His')."\r\n";
$ical .= "DTSTART:".$start."T".$start_time."\r\n";
$ical .= "DTEND:".$end."T".$end_time."\r\n";
$ical .= "LOCATION:".$venue."\r\n";
$ical .= "SUMMARY:".$summary."\r\n";
$ical .= "DESCRIPTION:".$event['description']."\r\n";
$ical .= "BEGIN:VALARM\r\n";
$ical .= "TRIGGER:-PT15M\r\n";
$ical .= "ACTION:DISPLAY\r\n";
$ical .= "DESCRIPTION:Reminder\r\n";
$ical .= "END:VALARM\r\n";
$ical .= "END:VEVENT\r\n";
$ical .= "END:VCALENDAR\r\n";

    $SendMail_To = '[email protected]';
    $SendMail_Subject = 'TESTING';
    $SendMail_Message = $ical;
    function set_html_content_type()
                    {
                        //return 'text/html';
                        return 'text/calendar';
                    }
                    
                    add_filter ('wp_mail_content_type', 'set_html_content_type' );
                    
                    wp_mail($SendMail_To,$SendMail_Subject,$SendMail_Message,$Headers,$Attachment_Array);
                                        
                    remove_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'set_html_content_type' );

    Hope this can help someone else…

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