NewsForge: A DIY Calendar Control in PHP | Linux Today

NewsForge: A DIY Calendar Control in PHP

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 26, 2007

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“As a former ASP.Net coder, I’ve missed the convenience of
Microsoft’s built-in Calendar Control since I switched to doing Web
site development in PHP. On a recent project I needed the ability
to display a calendar with dates serving as hyperlinks to selected
database items. I decided to use the opportunity to write some
portable PHP code that I could use in other projects.

“My design goals were to create a PHP page that would take as
input a querystring value in the form of a Unix epoch number that
would represent the beginning moment of a particular date…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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