Re: Call for Votes: PEAR::Calendar

Harry, you know what I will say on this :) 20 classes to do a calender is a little of an overkill (reminds me of the joke in an eddy murphy movie about using AK47 to shoot game) I like the idea of having a class to contain the date/time, but a single slightly larger class that handles all time/date combinations would make sense.. eg. $date = Calendar_DateTime::make(2000,10,1); $datetime = Calendar_DateTime::make(2000,10,1,10,15,1); (using func_get_args() to determine how may args....) there seems alot of repetition in all the Day/Month/Year classes... that would be eliminated by this.. alot the nextDay/nextYear may be handled better by something like $nextday = $date->make($date->year, $date->month, $date+1); $nextmonth = $date->make($date->year, $date->month+1, $date); that way a) you dont have to document alot of very simple, & obvious methods b) the user doesnt have to remember all the methods.. (basically it's pretty much how mktime works....) Other points (partly from the FAQ) - using define rather than require_once Thats one of the PEAR coding standards.. - you probably dont gain very much doing it that way.. - from what I remember they both do the same thing internally (look up a hash table).. It would be nice to handle non-unixtime dates like < 1970.. - but I guess that has to wait until we have someone bothered to write the algoritmns to do it... Regards Alan Harry Fuecks wrote:

Proposed Name: Calendar Proposed Category: Calendar (new namespace) PEAR::Calendar is an package for generating Calendars as data structures (it does not render content) allowing you to easily connect up a user interface with an underlying data store (such as MySQL). It provides a simple API to make generating a calendar much like querying a database - just pick a date then render the output with a loop. It's also extensible so should (in theory) be a foundation for generating practically any calendar you can think of (the challenge is a Chinese calendar). PEAR package: ------------- http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/htmlsax/Calendar-0.1.tgz?download Extensive README: ----------------- http://htmlsax.sourceforge.net/calendar/ API documentation: ------------------ http://htmlsax.sourceforge.net/calendar/api/ Examples: --------- http://htmlsax.sourceforge.net/calendar/examples/ This follows the earlier package proposal: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev&m=106045306402489&w=2 to which the issues raised have been addressed (it's now extensible and no longer tied to Unix timestamps). Also package name change on recommendation, from Date_Calendar to Calendar One thing that would be very good would be volunteers willing to help maintain the package. Timewise there's never enough. [PS: Please note I can only post on the mailing list in the evenings...] Thanks, Harry

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