Re: Date package for PEAR

LIMBOURG Arnaud wrote: > > > What do you think on building a unique Date package > > containing the Monte > > and Baba classes? > > Well, since we are talking about the validation packcage. > > I see two things > > - date validation > - date manipulations I'm sure manipulation can be easily done with Date.php, now I'm searching for a validate method with no success. Any idea how to validate a date and if a date is in a range with Calc or Date? > Having one big date package isn't going with the validation class, right ? Please note that big package != one big class file. For the date validation I could use checkdate and timestamps for doing the validation but we have to take the decision if we would like to check dates for dates out 1970-2038 with no other dependency or use Date/Calc classes for doing a more heavy but complete validation. > > Advantages: > > > > 1) Have php4/pear/Date/(Calc|Human).php out of php4 repo > > 2) Have a good and complete Date package > > 3) Avoid dependencies in the actual pear/Date/ package > > > > I'm going to do it in the next 5 minutes if there is no > > objections (just > > kidding..) > > Dictator ! ;)) > Hehe :-p Tomas V.V.Cox