PHP: iCal creations, how to make a new line in a description

Question

I'm using the following to create a calendar invite for outlook for a php script. However the \n doesn't give me a new line in outlook. Is there a way to do this? Seems silly if you can't!

  function addToCalendar($calEmail, $calSubject, $calDesc) 
  {

$calEmail = '[email protected]';
$description = $calDesc;
$message="BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20110718T121000Z
DTEND:20110718T131000Z
DTSTAMP:20110525T075116Z
ORGANIZER;CN=TOMS TEST:mailto:[email protected]
UID:12345678
ATTENDEE;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Yup:mailto:[email protected]
DESCRIPTION New \n Line
LOCATION: I AM THE LOCATION
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY: TEST SUMMARY
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR";

$headers = "From: From Name <From Mail>\n";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST;\n";
$headers .= '        charset="UTF-8"';
$headers .= "\n";
$headers .= "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit";


$subject = "Meeting Subject";
$subject = html_entity_decode($calSubject, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');


if(mail($calEmail, $calSubject, $message, $headers)) {

    echo "sent";
}else {
    echo "error";
}


  }

It's the DESCRIPTION New \n Line part i'm having issues with.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Tom

Answer 1

You should replace \r\n with \n:

$description = str_replace("\r\n", "\\n", $description);

See also Encoding newlines in iCal files