OtterBob — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:44:33 +0000

It really looks great, Andy. Nice job.

andy206uk — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:23:05 +0000

Hopefully if I ever get it finished It's going to be a free web based service that anyone will be able to use to display a calendar on their website.

KarenArt — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:11:58 +0000

Hey congratulations!
Making a calendar work... you're good.

It looks terrific!
So will you share the code with us or will we have to pay for it?

Have fun with it!

andy206uk — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:59:09 +0000

sorry... I've expanded the script since then. You need to append ?id=1 or ?id=2 to the end of the script. (it's calling extra info from a db and I haven't yet told the script what to do if the id hasn't been specified, hence the weiredness).

http://www.greendezire.com/calendar.php?id=1
http://www.greendezire.com/calendar.php?id=2

OtterBob — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:32:30 +0000

Glad to hear you got it working. Congratulations. Yeah, sometimes if you just can't figure out what the code is doing you're better off writing your own. Sometimes you even stumble upon a function you've never heard of before.

I just checked out the link and nothing shows up. Looking at the source there an opening tag and a tag, then lots of nothing until the tag. Also, the and tags are blank. Does that have anything to do with the fact that I'm using IE6? (That's all I can use at work.)

Anyway, congratulations again, and I'm glad I could be of help.

andy206uk — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:29:17 +0000

Yay! I got it working exactly as I wanted. Thanks for all your suggestions guys your help has been invaluble and I really appreciate it! (especially the thing about leap years! that worked a charm!).

You can see it functioning at:
http://www.greendezire.com/calendar.php

I'll be doing some more work on it soon to turn it into something really useful but you guys have got me started and for that I'm really thankful!

andy206uk — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:40:23 +0000

Thanks for the help guys, I've decided to start again from scratch with my own code because I can't get my head round the code I nicked!

Plus it's going to require lot's of updating in the future so I'm better off understanding what I'm doing than trying to bodge it!

OtterBob — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:55:27 +0000

OK, I think I've got it. The first time you execute the line:

$my_time = strtotime("+$i DAY");

in the for loop, $my_time takes today's date as the default value. Outside of the loop you need to set $my_time to the first of the current month. This should work:

$my_time = strtotime("1 " . date('F Y'));

If I'm right you'll end up with $my_time being strtotime("1 August 2004"). Then when you hit the for loop you'll add 0 days. That should take care of what date the script starts with. I hope (fingers crossed).

KarenArt — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:00:09 +0000

I think you may be having that problem because you're telling it to count days starting with today.
Perhaps if you tell it to count months for each year and then tell it how many days are in each month, that might be what you want.

Best of luck with it!
Calendars can be so frustrating to make sometimes.

andy206uk — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:17:24 +0000

Thanks guys. You've given me something to think about. I was trying to achieve something based on a little code snippet I found on the php.net site and it nearly worked (it does allow for leapyears allready - god knows how).

I just want it to always start from the beginning of the current month rather than "today" and it just doesnt seem to want to do it. grrrr.