note 77158 added to function.date

I created this function a while ago and needed it again recently, so had to trawl through some old files to find it. Thought I'd post it here in case anyone else finds it useful. <?php /* * Function to calculate which days are British bank holidays (England & Wales) for a given year. * * Created by David Scourfield, 07 August 2006, and released into the public domain. * Anybody may use and/or modify this code. * * USAGE: * * array calculateBankHolidays(int $yr) * * ARGUMENTS * * $yr = 4 digit numeric representation of the year (eg 1997). * * RETURN VALUE * * Returns an array of strings where each string is a date of a bank holiday in the format "yyyy-mm-dd". * * See example below * */ function calculateBankHolidays($yr) { $bankHols = Array(); // New year's: switch ( date("w", strtotime("$yr-01-01 12:00:00")) ) { case 6: $bankHols[] = "$yr-01-03"; break; case 0: $bankHols[] = "$yr-01-02"; break; default: $bankHols[] = "$yr-01-01"; } // Good friday: $bankHols[] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime( "+".(easter_days($yr) - 2)." days", strtotime("$yr-03-21 12:00:00") )); // Easter Monday: $bankHols[] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime( "+".(easter_days($yr) + 1)." days", strtotime("$yr-03-21 12:00:00") )); // May Day: if ($yr == 1995) { $bankHols[] = "1995-05-08"; // VE day 50th anniversary year exception } else { switch (date("w", strtotime("$yr-05-01 12:00:00"))) { case 0: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-02"; break; case 1: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-01"; break; case 2: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-07"; break; case 3: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-06"; break; case 4: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-05"; break; case 5: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-04"; break; case 6: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-03"; break; } } // Whitsun: if ($yr == 2002) { // exception year $bankHols[] = "2002-06-03"; $bankHols[] = "2002-06-04"; } else { switch (date("w", strtotime("$yr-05-31 12:00:00"))) { case 0: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-25"; break; case 1: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-31"; break; case 2: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-30"; break; case 3: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-29"; break; case 4: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-28"; break; case 5: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-27"; break; case 6: $bankHols[] = "$yr-05-26"; break; } } // Summer Bank Holiday: switch (date("w", strtotime("$yr-08-31 12:00:00"))) { case 0: $bankHols[] = "$yr-08-25"; break; case 1: $bankHols[] = "$yr-08-31"; break; case 2: $bankHols[] = "$yr-08-30"; break; case 3: $bankHols[] = "$yr-08-29"; break; case 4: $bankHols[] = "$yr-08-28"; break; case 5: $bankHols[] = "$yr-08-27"; break; case 6: $bankHols[] = "$yr-08-26"; break; } // Christmas: switch ( date("w", strtotime("$yr-12-25 12:00:00")) ) { case 5: $bankHols[] = "$yr-12-25"; $bankHols[] = "$yr-12-28"; break; case 6: $bankHols[] = "$yr-12-27"; $bankHols[] = "$yr-12-28"; break; case 0: $bankHols[] = "$yr-12-26"; $bankHols[] = "$yr-12-27"; break; default: $bankHols[] = "$yr-12-25"; $bankHols[] = "$yr-12-26"; } // Millenium eve if ($yr == 1999) { $bankHols[] = "1999-12-31"; } return $bankHols; } /* * EXAMPLE: * */ header("Content-type: text/plain"); $bankHolsThisYear = calculateBankHolidays(2007); print_r($bankHolsThisYear); ?> Will output this result: Array ( [0] => 2007-01-01 [1] => 2007-04-06 [2] => 2007-04-09 [3] => 2007-05-07 [4] => 2007-05-28 [5] => 2007-08-27 [6] => 2007-12-25 [7] => 2007-12-26 ) ---- Server IP: 194.145.210.4 Probable Submitter: 88.105.226.71 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/77158 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77158/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77158/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77158/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77158/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77158/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77158/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/77158 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/77158 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php