Calendar library supporting holidays - php
Are there any existing library that support holidays (e.g. Christmas) highlight in the calendar itself?
Google Calendar is fine, but I just want to use the library to display the calendar, I don't actually needed to create the events.
Any idea?
Problem with you saying holidays is that you are assuming a certain country / geographical / religious affiliation.
What you should really be looking for is a way to mark certain dates with something, as ultimately that is what you need. Holidays mean nothing other than days marked off or showing different from another. Google does this by utilizing feeds (which you could use).
Mozilla keeps a list of holidays as well:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/holidays.html
You will have to apply the list to your chosen calendar (most support day / date changes, and you would loop through your holiday list and add those days / mark as special).
Here is an example of jQuery Datepicker with Bank Holidays:
http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/datePicker/v2/demo/renderCalendarBankHolidays.html
Hope that gets you started.
Rather late in posting an answer, but as the current maintainer of the relevant PEAR Packages, I would suggest that you utilise the Date Holidays suite of components from PEAR. There are drivers for most countries: Australia, USA, UK, Germany, Russia and others.
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I am working on school timetables system and currently developing a PHP script that would allow exporting the data in iCalendar (.ics) format. The target use-case of exporting the data would be importing it into Google Calendar. Since there are holidays inbetween the semesters in our school (specified by start and end date), what would be the best way to exclude the holidays from the iCalendar recurrence rule (RRULE)?. Keep in mind that there can be many different schedules in one export. I did try using EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:YYYYMMDD,YYYYMMDD,YYYYMMDD... with all holiday days, but Google Calendar didn't exclude the dates, probably because schedules also have time attached and therefore they don't match. I'll also provide the data in iCalendar format with one of the events, with holiday days excluded one by one (the one that didn't work) BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Gregor Eesmaa/NONSGML Poska timetables//ET VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:schedule-1442#jpg.tartu.ee SUMMARY:French DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:Room 210 DTSTART:20151215T123000Z DTEND:20151215T134500Z RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20160211;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=TU EXDATE;VALUE=DATE:20151223,20151224,20151225,20151226,20151227,20151228,20151229,20151230,20151231,20160101,20160102,20160103,20160104,20160105,20160106,20160107,20160108,20160109,20160110,20160319,20160320,20160321,20160322,20160323,20160324,20160325,20160326,20160327,20160415,20160416,20160417,20160418,20160607,20160608,20160609,20160610,20160611,20160612,20160613,20160614,20160615,20160616,20160617,20160618,20160619,20160620,20160621,20160622,20160623,20160624,20160625,20160626,20160627,20160628,20160629,20160630,20160701,20160702,20160703,20160704,20160705,20160706,20160707,20160708,20160709,20160710,20160711,20160712,20160713,20160714,20160715,20160716,20160717,20160718,20160719,20160720,20160721,20160722,20160723,20160724,20160725,20160726,20160727,20160728,20160729,20160730,20160731,20160801,20160802,20160803,20160804,20160805,20160806,20160807,20160808,20160809,20160810,20160811,20160812,20160813,20160814,20160815,20160816,20160817,20160818,20160819,20160820,20160821,20160822,20160823,20160824,20160825,20160826,20160827,20160828,20160829,20160830,20160831 LAST-MODIFIED:20160102T123758Z DTSTAMP:20160107T232137Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
If DTSTART is a date-time value then EXDATEs must also be date-times. I propose you append T123000Z to each of your EXDATEs to make them actually point to valid instance starts. They will then get correctly excluded.
Based on this other SO issue, it seems you're not setting any excluded date in EXDATE. EXDATE can be set to DATE, based on the RFC 5545 specificaiton. Based on the answer on the other issue, your EXDATE should have been EXDATE:20151223,20151224,20151225,20151226,20151227,20151228,20151229,20151230,20151231,20160101,20160102,20160103,20160104,20160105,20160106,20160107,20160108,20160109,20160110,20160319,20160320,20160321,20160322,20160323,20160324,20160325,20160326,20160327,20160415,20160416,20160417,20160418,20160607,20160608,20160609,20160610,20160611,20160612,20160613,20160614,20160615,20160616,20160617,20160618,20160619,20160620,20160621,20160622,20160623,20160624,20160625,20160626,20160627,20160628,20160629,20160630,20160701,20160702,20160703,20160704,20160705,20160706,20160707,20160708,20160709,20160710,20160711,20160712,20160713,20160714,20160715,20160716,20160717,20160718,20160719,20160720,20160721,20160722,20160723,20160724,20160725,20160726,20160727,20160728,20160729,20160730,20160731,20160801,20160802,20160803,20160804,20160805,20160806,20160807,20160808,20160809,20160810,20160811,20160812,20160813,20160814,20160815,20160816,20160817,20160818,20160819,20160820,20160821,20160822,20160823,20160824,20160825,20160826,20160827,20160828,20160829,20160830,20160831 Hope this helps!
I posted this question looking for a solution that would exclude whole ranges. After careful consideration, I decided to do this properly, by excluding only the date-times where the event would actually take place. This decreased the file size of the export three fold. I also added timezone information as recommended for using RRULE. Now the French lesson event would look like this: BEGIN:VEVENT UID:schedule-1442#jpg.tartu.ee SUMMARY:French DESCRIPTION: LOCATION:Room 210 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Tallinn:20151215T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Tallinn:20151215T154500 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;UNTIL=20160211;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=TU EXDATE;TZID=Europe/Tallinn:20151229T143000,20160105T143000 CREATED:20160102T123758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160102T123758Z DTSTAMP:20160108T115122Z END:VEVENT
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{
'1':{
'date':'01-01-2012',
'dow':'01', // Monday
'profit':'326', // GBP
}, '2':{
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}
}
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The problems I have is that
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I can't figure out how I would group all Days of Week and dates successfully (in order).
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Here is a screenshot of what I have got already:
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Any help would be great!
Thanks!
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