I'm currently trying to implement an online diary system whereby insurance brokers book an appointment with an underwriter. I want the underwriter to receive an automated email which contains an invite to a meeting event and all they have to do is hit accept, as if it was a meeting invitation sent through Outlook.
Using the phpmailer class and the vCalendar specification I have managed to get the appointment sent as an attachment which the recipient can open and then save into their calendar. This is fine but is there a way I can get Outlook to treat it like a single invitation and not an email with an appointment attached?
I'd appreciate any insight on this.
Generating an automated meeting invitation
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I'm trying to do this now... and I'm not sure where to start...
I'm wondering if I create a MIME message like this:
I have a MIME and SMTP class that I wrote that works for sending messages... is there any more to it than that? Anybody have any experience with meeting requests and PHP?
I'm wondering if I create a MIME message like this:
And mail it... would that work?Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:09:13 -0700
From: Slippy <slippy@devnetwork.net>
Subject: Updated: The subject of our meeting is top secret
To: 'Slippy' <slippy@devnetwork.net>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: PHP 4 or 5 or whatever
Content-type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST; charset=utf-8
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
Message body would go here I guess???
I have a MIME and SMTP class that I wrote that works for sending messages... is there any more to it than that? Anybody have any experience with meeting requests and PHP?
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