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A very common need related to generating a calendar is the scheduling of events. Events can be in the form of one-off events, which take place on one day, or on a weekend. There is a much greater need, however, to track events that are recurring. We need to account for the start date, the recurring interval (daily, weekly, monthly), and the number of occurrences or a specific end date.
Before anything else, it would be an excellent idea to create a class that represents an event. Ultimately you'll probably end up storing the data in such a class in a database. For this illustration, however, we will simply define the class, and leave the database aspect to your imagination. You will notice that we will use a number of classes included in the DateTime extension admirably suited to event generation:
namespace Application\I18n;
use DateTime;
use DatePeriod;
use DateInterval;
use InvalidArgumentException;
class Event
{
// code
}Next, we...