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Saturday, August 21. 2004

Calculating holidays with PHP

Today a new package has been released at pear.php.net, which helps you calculating holidays. Date_Holidays has been developed by Carsten Lucke, a friend of mine is a driver-based package that provides holiday calculation rules for different religions and countries.
Using the package is quite easy:
<?php
require_once 'Date/Holidays.php';
$germany = &Date_Holidays::factory('Germany', 2005, 'en_EN');
// I wonder when the easter bunny will be visiting us next year
$easter = $germany->getHoliday('easter', 'de_DE');

// Will my birthday be a holiday?
if ($germany->isHoliday('2005-05-12') {
echo "Is a holiday\n";
}
?>

Harry Fuecks already thinks of combining this with PEAR::Calendar.
Posted by schst in PHP at 00:23 | Comments (10)
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