Problem with a calendar

[jiveturkey420]

I am relatively new to PHP. I create a simple calendar script, but I've discovered an error. It was 10:52pm EST(UTC -5) on Thursday, Jul 17 2012 realtime, but my program was saying it was Jul 18 2012. I figure it's something with the date() that I'm not doing right, but I'm not sure. Perhaps someone can help me out? I'll post the script below....

 

<?php

 

/* Calendar Begin */

$current_day_name = date(l);

$current_day_short_name = date(D);

$current_day_num = date(d);

$current_day_suffix = date(S);

$current_month_name = date(F);

$current_month_num = date(n);

$current_year = date(Y);

$current_month_total_days = cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN,$current_month_num,$current_year);

$current_month_first_day = mktime(0,0,0,$current_month_num,1,$current_year);

$current_month_first_day_name = date('D',$current_month_first_day);

$days_in_week = 1;

$days_in_month = 1;

switch ($current_month_first_day_name) {

case "Sun": $empty_cell = 0; break;

case "Mon": $empty_cell = 1; break;

case "Tue": $empty_cell = 2; break;

case "Wed": $empty_cell = 3; break;

case "Thu": $empty_cell = 4; break;

case "Fri": $empty_cell = 5; break;

case "Sat": $empty_cell = 6; break; }

echo "<font size='5'><i>".$current_month_name." - ".$current_year."</i></font>";

echo "<table border='1'>";

echo "<tr>

<th width='70' height='30'>Sun</th>

<th width='70'>Mon</th>

<th width='70'>Tue</th>

<th width='70'>Wed</th>

<th width='70'>Thu</th>

<th width='70'>Fri</th>

<th width='70'>Sat</th></tr>";

echo "<tr>";

while ($empty_cell > 0) {

echo "<td height='50'><p align='center'> --- </p></td>";

$days_in_week++;

$empty_cell--; }

while ($days_in_month <= $current_month_total_days) {

echo "<td height='50'><p align='center'>".$days_in_month."</p></td>";

$days_in_month++;

$days_in_week++;

if($days_in_month == $current_day_num) {

echo "<td height='50'><p align='center'><font color='red'><b>".$days_in_month."</b></font></p></td>";

$days_in_month++;

$days_in_week++; }

if ($days_in_week > 7) {

echo "<tr></tr>";

$days_in_week = 1; } }

echo "</tr></table>";

/* Calendar End */

 

echo $current_day_name;

 

?>

 

If anyone can be any help, it'd be greatly appreciated.

 

jiveTurkey420

[Barand]

is the date.timezone setting correct in your php.ini file?

 

date.timezone = America/New_York

[jiveturkey420]

I looked for php.ini by running "whereis php.ini" in my terminal, but it gave me 7 or 8 different locations. Here is the output.

 

[jon@localhost ~]$ whereis php.ini

php: /bin/php /usr/bin/php /etc/php.ini /etc/php.d /lib/php /usr/lib/php /usr/share/php /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz

 

I am running Fedora 17

[Barand]

run

 

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

 

That will tell you which is being used

[jiveturkey420]

Alright, I got that.

I run "chown jon /etc/php.ini" , and then open it in gedit.

When I go to save it, it says that's it's unable to make a backup, and it won't save.

 

[Mahngiel]

because you only modified rights to the file,and not the directory, so the backup file failed.. you'll need at least chmod the folder.

[jiveturkey420]

Yeah Mahngiel, that was it, thank you.

 

I don't see where in php.ini timezones can be modified.

[xyph]

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = UTC

; http://php.net/date.default-latitude
;date.default_latitude = 31.7667

; http://php.net/date.default-longitude
;date.default_longitude = 35.2333

; http://php.net/date.sunrise-zenith
;date.sunrise_zenith = 90.583333

; http://php.net/date.sunset-zenith
;date.sunset_zenith = 90.583333

 

Alternately, set it during runtime

 

date_default_timezone_set

 

BTW - You've got to SASS it

[jiveturkey420]

So you're saying that I have to remove the semicolon before  "date.timezone" and add a " = UTC" at the end?

I found this bit that you posted in php.ini, and it's actually the same as mine. Only there was a semicolon before date.timezone, and no = UTC

 

[Mahngiel]

the semicolon before a line in a php.ini comments a line out... meaning the properties will not be read. 

[xyph]

Assuming you can't find date.timezone anywhere else in your php.ini, then yes! Remove the semi-colon, and add = yourtimezoneofchoice afterwards.

 

http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

 

It might be a good idea to just set it in the script/runtime... in the event that you are using it on a server that doesn't have access to php.ini. If this isn't the case, by all means stick to the setting in php.ini.