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PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   PHP 7 Programming Cookbook Over 80 recipes that will take your PHP 7 web development skills to the next level!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883446
Length 610 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Doug Bierer Doug Bierer
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Preface 1. Building a Foundation FREE CHAPTER 2. Using PHP 7 High Performance Features 3. Working with PHP Functional Programming 4. Working with PHP Object-Oriented Programming 5. Interacting with a Database 6. Building Scalable Websites 7. Accessing Web Services 8. Working with Date/Time and International Aspects 9. Developing Middleware 10. Looking at Advanced Algorithms 11. Implementing Software Design Patterns 12. Improving Web Security 13. Best Practices, Testing, and Debugging A. Defining PSR-7 Classes Index

Creating an HTML international calendar generator


Creating a program to display a calendar is something you would most likely do as a student at secondary school. A nested for() loop, where the inside loop generates a list of seven days, will generally suffice. Even the problem of how many days there are in the month is easily solved in the form of a simple array. Where it starts to get tricky is when you need to figure out, for any given year, on what day of the week does the 1st of January fall. Also, what if you want to represent the months and days of the week in a language and format acceptable to a specific locale? As you have probably guessed, we will build a solution using the previously discussed Application\I18n\Locale class.

How to do it...

  1. First we need to create a generic class that will hold information for a single day. Initially it will only hold an integer value, $dayOfMonth. Later, in the next recipe, we'll expand it to include events. As the primary purpose of this class...

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