This package offers an abstraction layer for creating iCalendars files. By using this PHP package, you can create *.ics files without the knowledge of the underling format. The output itself will follow RFC 5545 as good as possible.

You can install this package by using Composer, running the following command:

composer require eluceo/ical

The initial version was released back in 2012. The version 2 of this package is a complete rewrite of the package and is not compatible to older version. Please see the upgrade guide if you want to migrate from version 0.* to 2.*. If you just start using this package, you should install version 2.

Visit ical.poerschke.nrw for complete documentation.

The classes within this package are grouped into two namespaces:

• The Domain contains the information about the events.
• The Presentation contains the transformation from Domain into a *.ics file.

To create a calendar, the first step will be to create the corresponding domain objects. Then these objects can be transformed into a iCalendar PHP representation, which can be cast to string.

In this very basic example, that renders an empty event. You will learn how to create an event domain object, how to add it to a calendar and how to transform it to a iCalendar component.

$event = new \Eluceo\iCal\Domain\Entity\Event();

$calendar = new \Eluceo\iCal\Domain\Entity\Calendar([$event]);

$iCalendarComponent = (new \Eluceo\iCal\Presentation\Factory\CalendarFactory())->createCalendar($calendar);

file_put_contents('calendar.ics', (string) $iCalendarComponent);

header('Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cal.ics"');

echo $iCalendarComponent;

The following example will create a single day event with a summary and a description. More examples can be found in the examples/ folder.

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

// 1. Create Event domain entity
$event = (new Eluceo\iCal\Domain\Entity\Event())
    ->setSummary('Christmas Eve')
    ->setDescription('Lorem Ipsum Dolor...')
    ->setOccurrence(
        new Eluceo\iCal\Domain\ValueObject\SingleDay(
            new Eluceo\iCal\Domain\ValueObject\Date(
                \DateTimeImmutable::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', '2030-12-24')
            )
        )
    );

// 2. Create Calendar domain entity
$calendar = new Eluceo\iCal\Domain\Entity\Calendar([$event]);

// 3. Transform domain entity into an iCalendar component
$componentFactory = new Eluceo\iCal\Presentation\Factory\CalendarFactory();
$calendarComponent = $componentFactory->createCalendar($calendar);

// 4. Set headers
header('Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cal.ics"');

// 5. Output
echo $calendarComponent;

This package is released under the MIT license.