advise on getting dates in month/mini calendar

[jonny512379]

Hello All

 

First question post, other than the usual introduction posts.

 

FYI: i am OKish with php, but have never had a need to do the below

 

I basically need to get every date in a given month, including the day of the week (i.e monday, etc).

Ideally so i am given an array of dates (i.e with something like "$dates_arr = $calendar_obj->getDatesForMonth($month = 9, $year = 2015);")

This is to build a kind of mini calendar.

 

i would have assumed there are some inbuilt php functions/classes for this, but am struggling to find them.

Can anyone tell me if there is anything i should be looking at, before i try to build my own class / extend DateTime, etc (as i don't think i need to reinvent the wheel) 

 

I would be grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction

[Barand]

Have a look at the DateTime, DateInterval and DatePeriod classes

 

DateTime

DateInterval

DatePeriod

[Psycho]

There is no built-in function/methods that I am aware of. But, the process of getting the data would be a very simple process.

 

 

function getDOWs($year, $month)
{
    $monthDays = array(); //Output variable
    $daysInMonthy = date('t', strtotime("{$year}-{$month}-01")); //# days in selected month
    for($day=1; $day<=$daysInMonthy; $day++)
    {
        //Create timestamp for current day of month
        $date = strtotime("{$year}-{$month}-{$day}");
        //Add numeric day of month and the doy of week name to output array
        $monthDays[$day] = date('l', $date);
    }
    //Return results
    return $monthDays;
}
 
 
echo "<pre>";
print_r(getDOWs(2015, 9));
echo "<pre>";

 

Output for 2015 and 10

 

Array
(
[1] => Tuesday
[2] => Wednesday
[3] => Thursday
[4] => Friday
[5] => Saturday
[6] => Sunday
[7] => Monday
[8] => Tuesday
[9] => Wednesday
[10] => Thursday
[11] => Friday
[12] => Saturday
[13] => Sunday
[14] => Monday
[15] => Tuesday
[16] => Wednesday
[17] => Thursday
[18] => Friday
[19] => Saturday
[20] => Sunday
[21] => Monday
[22] => Tuesday
[23] => Wednesday
[24] => Thursday
[25] => Friday
[26] => Saturday
[27] => Sunday
[28] => Monday
[29] => Tuesday
[30] => Wednesday
)

[jonny512379]

Have a look at the DateTime, DateInterval and DatePeriod classes

 

DateTime

DateInterval

DatePeriod

Thank you!

[jonny512379]

 

There is no built-in function/methods that I am aware of. But, the process of getting the data would be a very simple process.

function getDOWs($year, $month)
{
    $monthDays = array(); //Output variable
    $daysInMonthy = date('t', strtotime("{$year}-{$month}-01")); //# days in selected month
    for($day=1; $day<=$daysInMonthy; $day++)
    {
        //Create timestamp for current day of month
        $date = strtotime("{$year}-{$month}-{$day}");
        //Add numeric day of month and the doy of week name to output array
        $monthDays[$day] = date('l', $date);
    }
    //Return results
    return $monthDays;
}
 
 
echo "<pre>";
print_r(getDOWs(2015, 9));
echo "<pre>";

Output for 2015 and 10

Array
(
[1] => Tuesday
[2] => Wednesday
[3] => Thursday
[4] => Friday
[5] => Saturday
[6] => Sunday
[7] => Monday
[8] => Tuesday
[9] => Wednesday
[10] => Thursday
[11] => Friday
[12] => Saturday
[13] => Sunday
[14] => Monday
[15] => Tuesday
[16] => Wednesday
[17] => Thursday
[18] => Friday
[19] => Saturday
[20] => Sunday
[21] => Monday
[22] => Tuesday
[23] => Wednesday
[24] => Thursday
[25] => Friday
[26] => Saturday
[27] => Sunday
[28] => Monday
[29] => Tuesday
[30] => Wednesday
)

Thank you very much, i will try to build a class, starting with what you have explained.

Thanks!

[Barand]

As Psycho's but using DateTime objects

function getDatesForMonth($month, $year)
{
    $int = new DateInterval('P1D');                          // 1 day interval
    $dt1 = new DateTime("$year-$month-01");
    $dt2 = (new DateTime($dt1->format('Y-m-t')));            // last day of month
    $dateper = new DatePeriod($dt1, $int, $dt2->add($int));  // create period from dt1 to dt2+1
    $res = array();
    foreach ($dateper as $d) {
        $res[$d->format('j')] = $d->format('D');
    }
    return $res;
}

$dates = getDatesForMonth(9,2015);

echo '<pre>',print_r($dates, true),'</pre>';

[jonny512379]

just a quick question

 

i notice in this post and in other post, variables are bing wrapped in {}

eg:

$daysInMonthy = date('t', strtotime("{$year}-{$month}-01")); //# days in selected month

 

why is this?

would this not be the same?:

$daysInMonthy = date('t', strtotime("$year-$month-01")); //# days in selected month

 

just asking out of curiosity

[Barand]

In the case above it is optional but in other cases it is required,

 

• with array elements embedded in a string "Today is {$dates['dayOfWeek']}"
• if there is no space between the $var and the next character "Price : {$price}GBP" and the next character could be part of a legitimate variable name.

[jonny512379]

 

In the case above it is optional but in other cases it is required,

 

• with array elements embedded in a string "Today is {$dates['dayOfWeek']}"
• if there is no space between the $var and the next character "Price : {$price}GBP" and the next character could be part of a legitimate variable name.

 

 

Thank you, makes perfect sense now, was just one of them things bugging me, and searching on google for "{} php" returns nothing (well it just ignores the {})