Functions-used-to-define-a-schedule-of-holidays


            function GetTimeStamp($MySqlDate) 
 { 
 /* 
 Take a date in yyyy-mm-dd format and return it to the user in a PHP timestamp 
 Robin 06/10/1999 
 */ 
 $date_array = explode("-",$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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