MCAL stands for Modular Calendar Access Library.
Libmcal is a C library for accessing calendars. It's written to be very modular, with pluggable drivers. MCAL is the calendar equivalent of the IMAP module for mailboxes.
With mcal support, a calendar stream can be opened much like the mailbox stream with the IMAP support. Calendars can be local file stores, remote ICAP servers, or other formats that are supported by the mcal library.
Calendar events can be pulled up, queried, and stored. There is also support for calendar triggers (alarms) and recurring events.
With libmcal, central calendar servers can be accessed, removing the need for any specific database or local file programming.
To get these functions to work, you have to compile PHP with --with-mcal. That requires the mcal library to be installed. Grab the latest version from http://mcal.chek.com/ and compile and install it.
The following constants are defined when using the MCAL module. For weekdays :
MCAL_SUNDAY
MCAL_MONDAY
MCAL_TUESDAY
MCAL_WEDNESDAY
MCAL_THURSDAY
MCAL_FRIDAY
MCAL_SATURDAY
MCAL_RECUR_NONE
MCAL_RECUR_DAILY
MCAL_RECUR_WEEKLY
MCAL_RECUR_MONTHLY_MDAY
MCAL_RECUR_MONTHLY_WDAY
MCAL_RECUR_YEARLY
MCAL_JANUARY
MCAL_FEBRUARY
MCAL_MARCH
MCAL_APRIL
MCAL_MAY
MCAL_JUNE
MCAL_JULY
MCAL_AUGUST
MCAL_SEPTEMBER
MCAL_OCTOBER
MCAL_NOVEMBER
MCAL_DECEMBER