[SOLVED] Force month()

Dark-Hawk · April 7, 2009

I'm trying to make a dedicated calendar for a PHP application for a school. The calendar needs to always display a particular month since their Parent Teacher Conferences never change. How would I force the calendar I've put together to ALWAYS display, let's say the month of December, if it's currently June. This is the calendar script I'm currently building off of, I figured it'd be much easier to build off of just a calendar, rather than worry about putting that together on my own as well:

<?
    /* Print out the HTML headers, and calendar header */
    echo "<HTML>\n"
    . " <HEAD>\n"
  
    . " </head>\n"
    . " <BODY>\n";
    /* Grab the month and year */
    if ($month == "" || $year == "")
    {
    $this_month = date("n");
    $month_name = date("F");
    $this_year = date("Y");
    }
    else
    {
    $this_month = date("n", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year));
    $month_name = date("F", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year));
    $this_year = date("Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year));
    }
    /* This is for the navigation */
    $last_month = $this_month - 1;
    $next_month = $this_month + 1;
    /* Same with all this stuff */
    if ($last_month == 12)
    $last_year = $this_year - 1;
    else
    $last_year = $this_year;
    /* DITTO!!! */
    if ($next_month == 1)
    $next_year = $this_year + 1;
    else
    $next_year = $this_year;
    /* Display the calendar header */
    echo " <CENTER><B>Event Calendar for $month_name, $this_year</b></center><BR>\n" 
    . " <TABLE align=\"center\" border=\"2\" bordercolor=\"#000000\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n"
    . "<TR bgcolor=\"#DDDDDD\">\n"
    . "<TH width=\"115\">Sun</th>\n"
    . "<TH width=\"115\">Mon</th>\n"
    . "<TH width=\"115\">Tue</th>\n"
    . "<TH width=\"115\">Wed</th>\n"
    . "<TH width=\"115\">Thu</th>\n"
    . "<TH width=\"115\">Fri</th>\n"
    . "<TH width=\"115\">Sat</th>\n"
    . "</tr>\n";
    /* Grab the first day of the month, and total days */
    $first_day = date("w", mktime(0, 0, 0, $this_month, 1, $this_year));
    $total_days = date("t", mktime(0, 0, 0, $this_month, 1, $this_year));
    /* Start on the day of the first week */
    $week_num = 1;
    $day_num = 1;
    /* While the day of the week isn't '7' */
    while ($week_num <= 6)
    {
    echo "<TR>\n";
    /* Loop through the week days */
    for ( $i = 0; $i <= 6; $i++ )
    {
    /* If it's the first week then... */
    if ($week_num == 1)
    {
    /* If it's not the first day yet, then use a space */
    if ($i < $first_day)
    $the_day = " ";
    /* If it is the first day, then start with a '1' */
    else if ($i == $first_day)
    {
    $the_day = 1;
    }
    }
    else
    {
    /* If we're past the total days, then use spaces */
    if ($the_day > $total_days) 
    $the_day = " ";
    }
    /* Display the day (or space) */
    echo "<TD height=\"150\" width=\"110\" valign=\"top\"></style><font size=3>\n";
    /* Incrememnt the day of the month */
    if ($the_day != " "); {
    	
   
    echo '<a href="edcal.php?'; //adding the link to the date in each cell
    	
    echo "the_day=$the_day";
    echo "&this_year=$this_year";
    echo "&this_month=$month_name";
    echo "&month=$this_month";
    echo "&year=$this_year";
    echo '">';
    echo "$the_day"; 
    echo '</a>';
echo "\n";

//$grab = ($the_day++);
       if(file_exists("$month_name$the_day$this_year.php")){  //checking for the data, if any
include("$month_name$the_day$this_year.php");
}
}$the_day++;
}


   echo "\n";	
   
    echo '</td></tr>';
echo "\n";
    /* Increment the week number */
    $week_num++;
    }
    /* Finish off with closing out our tags */
echo "\n";
    echo '</table><BR><CENTER><A href="calendar.php?month=';

    echo "\n";
echo "$last_month&year=$last_year";
echo "\n";
echo '">Last Month</a> || <A href="calendar.php?month=';
echo "\n";
echo "$next_month&year=$next_year";
echo "\n";
echo '">Next Month</a>';
echo "\n";
    echo '</center></body></html>';
    

    ?>

Brian W · April 7, 2009

Look into strtotime() to produce a Unix time stamp which you then would use as the second parameter in date()

Example:

<?php
$time = strtotime("December 1st");
echo date("m-d-y", $time);
?>

which outputs 12-01-09

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