Re: Re: Date_Holidays

Maybe some more general approach / name possible? Why just holidays? In Germany there are a few remarkable days for which nowadays you won't get a free day (namely holiday) from your boss. Something like: Date_SpecialDates? Just a thought ... Stefan On 18 Oct 2003 at 16:00, Greg Beaver wrote: > Hi Stephan, > > This would be very useful. I have some working code that calculates a > few holidays like American Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, and also > several other random holidays (Labor Day, etc.). It also calculates > major Jewish holidays like Rosh Hashanah, I'd be happy to make my old > and rather scrappy code available to extract some algorithms. The > code is used as a backed for calendar.chiaraquartet.net > > It would be great to see the code PEARified and unit tested. > > Regards, > Greg > > Stephan Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I will have to implement a calendar in PHP that knows when certain > > holidays (like easter) are. I thought about implementing the > > algorithm in a class called Date_Holidays, so it can be used in > > PEAR. But as different countries have different holidays (in the US, > > labour day is in September, in Germany it's in May) I thought about > > a factory method like: > > > > $holidays = Date_Holidays::getHolidays('Germany'); > > > > This will return an object Date_Holidays_German, so at a later point > > Date_Holdays_France, etc. could be implemented. > > > > The object could then supply some methods to check whether a date is > > a holiday, list all holidays in a certain year or return one holiday > > for one year... > > > > Any thoughts or comments about this? I'll probably start working on > > this next monday. > > > > Stephan > > --- > > Stephan Schmidt > > schst@php-tools.net > > http://www.php-tools.net > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >