Using arrays with the Calendar class in CodeIgniter - php

Question

I'm trying to create a rather complex array for my calendar application. It's supposed to contain dates, with the name of the day, the 'type' and the events, if any. I got as far as creating this:
[dates] {
[22] {
[day] => [Friday]
[type] => [weekday]
}
[23] {
[day] => [Saturday]
[type] => [Weekend]
}
[24] {
[day] => [Sunday]
[type] => [Weekend]
}
}
Now I would like to add another key called 'events'. I want to add the events for each day to the array.. So I could get something like:
[24] {
[day] => [Sunday]
[type] => [Weekend]
[events] {
[1] {
[title] => [test event]
[description] => [my event]
[date] => [24-04-2011]
}
[2] {
[title] => [test event 2]
[description] => [my second event]
[date] => [24-04-2011]
}
}
Not sure if this makes sense.
I created the first example using this code:
for($i = 1; $i <= $data['days_in_curr_month']; $i++)
{
$day_info = $this->get_day_info($i, $data['current_month'], $data['current_year']);
$dates[$i]['name'] = $day_info['day_name'];
$dates[$i]['type'] = $day_info['day_type'];
}
return $dates;
I then wanted to grab the event info by doing:
$event_info = $this->get_event_info($i, $data['current_month'], $data['current_year']);
in the same for loop.
My get_event_info method looks like this:
public function get_event_info($day, $month, $year)
{
$date = $year . "-" . $month . "-" . $day;
$this->db->where('date', $date);
$this->db->where('user_id', '1');
$query = $this->db->get('tblEvents');
$event_info = array();
foreach($query->result() as $row)
{
$event_info['events'][$row->id]['title'] = $row->title;
$event_info['events'][$row->id]['description'] = $row->description;
}
return $event_info;
}
It outputs arrays like this:
Array ( [events] => Array ( [1] => Array ( [title] => Project 2 [description] => Test: Project 2 ) [2] => Array ( [title] => Illustrator [description] => Test: Illustrator 2 ) ) )
Now, I return the $event_info from get_events_info to the create_dates_list method, but I'm not sure how I would go about adding my event arrays to the $dates array.
The get_event_info gets the events for each date (1 - end of month-). I then want to add those to my $dates array in the format listed above in my second example.
I'm confused cause these are rather complex arrays. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think all you need to do is (for example):
$append_events = get_event_info($day, $month, $year);
$array['dates']['1']['event'] = $append_events['events'];
Then you can access your elements:
$array['dates']['1']['event'][$id]['title']
$array['dates']['1']['event'][$id]['description']