OK. I have finally taken the time to hack together a block for automatically stating the Next PHP Meeting date. What I needed was a way to get the third Saturday of the current month unless it has already past. Then it would get the third Saturday of next month.
If you want to have some fun with a nice academic exercise, read the article and start hacking!
The “algorithm” I hacked together was:
[code]
$t=getdate();
$today = mktime(0,0,0,$t['mon'],$t['mday'],$t['year']);
[code]
$t=getdate();
$today = mktime(0,0,0,$t['mon'],$t['mday'],$t['year']);
$this_month_start = mktime(0,0,0,$t['mon'],1,$t['year']);
$next_month_start = mktime(0,0,0,$t['mon']+1,1,$t['year']);
$this_month_date = strtotime("Third Saturday",$this_month_start);
$next_month_date = strtotime("Third Saturday",$next_month_start);
if($today <= $this_month_date) {
$event_date = $this_month_date;
} else {
$event_date = $next_month_date;
}
print "Saturday, ".date('F dS, Y',$event_date)." 2:30pm";
?>[/code]
Now make me proud and post your improvements.
Happy Hacking!!
