Comments on: Outlook Calendar REST API

By: Adam Trachtenberg

Adam Trachtenberg — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:41:53 +0000

Based on popular request, here is the kludgy bit of code I wrote to do this: http://www.trachtenberg.com/exchange.phps

It uses the PEAR HTTP_Request library. Since I haven’t played with it in years, I don’t know what shape it’s in. I did a minimal clean up to remove my hardcoded information and turn that into variables at the top.

I tried it just now and I am getting Login Timeout errors, but I don’t have the time to debug this.

I think the important part is the format of the request headers, url, and body.

If you get this working, please add a comment here, so people can use what you do.

Thanks!

By: Jegan Markandu

Jegan Markandu — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:08:04 +0000

I’m making the same request. Could I get to look at your PHP code that pulls the MS Exchange Calendar contents. Thanks

By: Chris Rutherfurd

Chris Rutherfurd — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:12:25 +0000

Hey Adam,
This seems very interesting. Could this be done the other way around, so that the request for calendar is made from outlook and made to a PHP file.

By: Office Outlook

Office Outlook — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:51:25 +0000

If I have a remote web access to Exchange, what for to me such web service?

By: Joe Travaglini

Joe Travaglini — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:11:15 +0000

Hey Adam,
Did you ever publish this PHP source anywhere? If so, where? If not, would you be willing to share it?

By: Adam Trachtenberg

Adam Trachtenberg — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:53:34 +0000

I will try and dig it up. I’m not sure where I left in, or what state it is in.

By: Paul Flatt

Paul Flatt — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:32:10 +0000

Hi Adam,

I’m really interested in what you are doing with PHP pulling in Outlook Calendar information. I would like to be able to do the same, using the resulting data as an in/out board on our Corporate Intranet (running under Mambo/Joomla).

Would it be possible to get access to your code so that I could modify it slightly to do what I need it to?

Regards,

Paul

By: Adam Trachtenberg

Adam Trachtenberg — Fri, 27 May 2005 14:41:09 +0000

Thanks to the good comments above, and after lots of digging around, I have managed to make a successful Outlook Calendar request from PHP using a hacked version of HTTP_Request.

I modified the package (hurray for open source) to include DAV SEARCH support (which technically isn’t official DAV yet, so it’s not even in the HTTP_DAV_Client package), and I was able to figure out all the authentication settings for my server, and search SQL syntax for pulling Calendar records. (I wish I knew how to do the equivalent of a LIMIT clause, but I’m not sure that’s possible.)

Since I’m not using Windows, the MAPI angle wasn’t possible. That’s why I went the DAV route, which is less well documented. It’s still partially experimental DAV, so it’s not widely used outside of Outlook/Exchange.

For my next trick, I will port this to use the JavaScript XMLHTTPRequest object, so it can be embedded directly in the widget instead of requiring a forked PHP CLI process.

By: George Schlossnagle

George Schlossnagle — Fri, 27 May 2005 13:21:49 +0000

I did a similar thing with my iCal calendars, which I push to a DAV server. For syncing that with the salesforce SOAP API, I pull the files back over DAV, parse them in PHP, and use ext/soap to manage the SF syncing. Doing something similar and exposing them over REST instead of pushing them over SOAP would be easy.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 26 May 2005 08:05:09 +0000

hey Adam,

You can also use Python to access your Outlook calendar, I wrote an app that extracted my calendar using Python a couple months ago:

http://cephas.net/blog/2004/09/17/sending_your_outlook_calendar_using_python.html