Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By : Doug Bierer
Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By: Doug Bierer

Overview of this book

PHP 7 comes with a myriad of new features and great tools to optimize your code and make your code perform faster than in previous versions. Most importantly, it allows you to maintain high traffic on your websites with low-cost hardware and servers through a multithreading web server. This book demonstrates intermediate to advanced PHP techniques with a focus on PHP 7. Each recipe is designed to solve practical, real-world problems faced by PHP developers like yourself every day. We also cover new ways of writing PHP code made possible only in version 7. In addition, we discuss backward-compatibility breaks and give you plenty of guidance on when and where PHP 5 code needs to be changed to produce the correct results when running under PHP 7. This book also incorporates the latest PHP 7.x features. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the tools and skills required to deliver efficient applications for your websites and enterprises.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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...