With more and more articles coming out lately, you'd think that maybe Internet.com took the hint with PHPBuilder.com and are starting to revive it. Well, as part of that, there's yet another new article posted this morning about "Using PHP to Make Basic vCalendar/iCalendar Events".

For those unfamiliar with what vCalendar/iCalendar are - they're the formats that several of the large calendaring applications use to import and export their calendar files so that you can share them with the world (software like Outlook, iCal, and some Palm apps). Well, this article steps you through how to create a text file with the correct settings/format to share your calendars from PHP, and they even provide you with a few resources about the vCalendar/iCalendar formats for your reference.

With the introduction of things like iCal from Apple and various other software that allows you to share these calendars with everyone, scripts like these are going to become more and more popular. All it would take is a good database layout, and an apache server running mod_dav to get things rolling....