Question

I have a calendar set up in a mySQL table and I am trying to output the dates via monthly calendars (Jan, Feb, Mar) which accounts for the “missing days” for previous months and the following month.

So if I am trying to make a calendar for Jan 2013 and Jan 1 falls on a Tuesday — I am having difficulty coding a method to show that Sun Dec 30 and Mon Dec 31 act as “space fillers” or what have you… know what I mean?

I am having a difficult time wrapping my head around how to output this info.

The data structure and data is as follows:

Table_name: sched_calendar_table

dt  y   q   m   d   dw  monthName   dayName w   isWeekday   isHoliday   holidayDescr    isPayday
2010-01-01  2010    1   1   1   6   January Friday  0   1   1   New Year's Day  0
2010-01-02  2010    1   1   2   7   January Saturday    0   0   0       0
2010-01-03  2010    1   1   3   1   January Sunday  1   0   0       0
2010-01-04  2010    1   1   4   2   January Monday  1   1   0       0
2010-01-05  2010    1   1   5   3   January Tuesday 1   1   0       0

I plan on creating each monthly calendar using tables.

So the initial part of the code is:

echo '<table>';
$sql="SELECT * FROM sched_calendar_table WHERE y=2013";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
while($row=mysql_query($result)){
 echo '<tr><td>'; // .. unsure how to account for the placeholder days that aren't part of the month being displayed... how to do this?
}
echo '</table>';

Answer 1

Quick function, that returns all dates by weeks, start with monday, end with sunday (even if that dates are from after/before month).

function getWeekDays($month, $year)
{
    $dFrom = new DateTime("$year-$month-01");
    $dTo = clone $dFrom;
    if (($N = $dFrom->format('N')) > 1) {
        $dFrom->modify('-' . ($N - 1) . ' day');
    }
    $dTo->add(new DateInterval('P1M'));
    if (($N = $dTo->format('N')) < 7) {
        $dTo->modify((8 - $N) . ' day');
    }

    $p = new DatePeriod($dFrom, new DateInterval('P1D'), $dTo);

    $datesByWeek = array();
    foreach ($p as $d) {
        $datesByWeek[ $d->format('W') ][] = $d;
    }
    return $datesByWeek;
}

Example:

print_r( getWeekDays(1, 2013) );

Now you have all dates that represent current month, so you can do DB magic…

How to output table from this data, see > Find weekly periods (starting on a Monday) for a month