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Functions used to define a schedule of holidays. Can define non-fixed holidays
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(eg. 3rd sunday of June).
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function GetTimeStamp($MySqlDate)
{
$date_array = explode("-",$MySqlDate); // split the array
$var_year = $date_array[0];
$var_month = $date_array[1];
$var_day = $date_array[2];
$var_timestamp = mktime(0,0,0,$var_month,$var_day,$var_year);
return($var_timestamp); // return it to the user
} // End function GetTimeStamp()
function ordinalDay($ord, $day, $month, $year)
// ordinalDay returns date of the $ord $day of $month.
// For example ordinalDay(3, 'Sun', 5, 2001) returns the
// date of the 3rd Sunday of May (ie. Mother's Day).
//
// Note: $day must be the 3 char abbr. for the day, as
// given by date("D");
//
{
$firstOfMonth = GetTimeStamp("$year-$month-01");
$lastOfMonth = $firstOfMonth + date("t", $firstOfMonth) * 86400;
$dayOccurs = 0;
for ($i = $firstOfMonth; $i < $lastOfMonth ; $i += 86400)
{
if (date("D", $i) == $day)
{
$dayOccurs++;
if ($dayOccurs == $ord)
{ $ordDay = $i; }
}
}
return $ordDay;
} // End function ordinalDay()
function getNextHoliday()
// Looks through a lists of defined holidays and tells you which
// one is coming up next.
//
{
$year = date("Y");
class holiday
{
var $name;
var $date;
var $catNum;
function holiday($name, $date, $catNum)
// Contructor to define the details of each holiday as it is created.
{
$this->name = $name; // Official name of holiday
$this->date = $date; // UNIX timestamp of date
$this->catNum = $catNum; // category, we used for databases access
}
} // end class holiday
$holidays[] = new holiday("Groundhog Day", GetTimeStamp("$year-2-2"), "20");
$holidays[] = new holiday("Valentine's Day", GetTimeStamp("$year-2-14"), "14");
$holidays[] = new holiday("St. Patrick's Day", GetTimeStamp("$year-3-17"), "15");
$holidays[] = new holiday("Easter", easter_date($year), "16");
$holidays[] = new holiday("Mother's Day", ordinalDay(2, 'Sun', 5, $year), "3");
$holidays[] = new holiday("Father's Day", ordinalDay(3, 'Sun', 6, $year), "4");
$holidays[] = new holiday("Independence Day", GetTimeStamp("$year-7-4"), "17");
$holidays[] = new holiday("Christmas", GetTimeStamp("$year-12-25"), "13");
$numHolidays = count($holidays);
for ($i = 0; $i < $numHolidays; $i++)
{
if ( date("z") > date("z", $holidays[$i]->date) && date("z") <= date("z",
$holidays[$i+1]->date) )
{
$nextHoliday["name"] = $holidays[$i+1]->name;
$nextHoliday["dateStamp"] = $holidays[$i+1]->date;
$nextHoliday["dateText"] = date("F j, Y", $nextHoliday["dateStamp"]);
$nextHoliday["num"] = $holidays[$i+1]->catNum;
}
}
return $nextHoliday;
} // end function GetNextHoliday
$nextHoliday = getNextHoliday();
echo $nextHoliday["name"]." (".$nextHoliday["dateText"].")";
?>
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