In this tutorial, we look at creating calendars in PHP. In this first of 4 tutorials, we build a simple, but working calendar for display purposes, looking at the techniques involved. In the second part we'll going to build a more advanced calendar that can display events for each day and has customised styling.
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In this article, we've looked at how to use the PHP date() command to retrieve useful information about the current date of a provided timestamp. We also looked at using the PHP mktime() command, to turn any date and / or time into a UNIX timestamp for use with the date() command.
Next we created the HTML structure for the calendar, which we then made dynamic using PHP to layout the calendar in the correct order. We also looked at formatting the HTML output so that it shows neatly in the browsers view source display,
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Having used this great tutorial some years ago when it first appeared I was keen to learn about the revised version and the methods used to interact with a database. So, I purchased the Tut, downloaded then read it only to find that this is the same as I previously had.
So how do you intend to provide what was advertised, "Creating a simple calendar in PHP (updated) ???
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