Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on Date and Time::Date_Holidays

On Jun 21, 2004, at 3:10 PM, Stephan Schmidt wrote:

Hi,

And that file format can be parsed into an array using PEAR::File_IMC -- the array nesting gets quite deep, but the hard work has been done at that point (i.e., making sense of the text).

I think this could be done with a special driver. This allows people to choose whether they want to use an ics file, use any of the supported drivers or build their own simple driver. But I wouldn't require ICS support for the first release. If people need to read ICS files, they may use FILE_IMC.

Agreed -- the Date_Holidays package is going to build in the first place. Support something like IMC formats (which, for all their human-readable simplicity, turn out to be relatively troublesome to parse) will only add to the trouble. I am only saying that the Date_Holidays class can make use of File_IMC at some point to store or share calendar-date info, especially when expecting to give that info to other programs. -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty for PHP. http://phpsavant.com/ DB_Table: build RDBMS tables and XHTML forms in one PHP class. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=DB_Table Yawiki: a collaborative online documentation system. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Yawiki Yawp: a single-file foundation for PHP applications. http://phpyawp.com/