Date_Holidays

Driver based class to calculate holidays.

Date_Holidays helps you calculating the dates and titles of holidays and other special celebrations. The calculation is driver-based so it is easy to add new drivers that calculate a country's holidays. The methods of the class can be used to get a holiday's date and title in various languages. luckec Carsten Lucke luckec@php.net lead schst Stephan Schmidt schst@php.net helper wiesemann Mark Wiesemann wiesemann@php.net contributor 0.14.0 2005-10-16 PHP License alpha - Switched from using INI files for translation to XML files - Added script to convert INI files to XML files - Added script to compile XML based language files - Holidays can now have various properties (see "languagefile-with-properties.xml" in examples-directory) - removed "againstNoiseDay" !BC break! from Germany driver, cannot be calculated automatically - new driver-methods: = addCompiledTranslationFile(), allows adding compiled language-data files for performance improvements = getHolidaysForDatespan(), returns holidays within a given time span - several bugfixes - Added filters for german federal states (contributed by Mark Wiesemann) PEAR Date XML_Serializer Console_Getargs 0.9.0 2004-08-20 PHP License alpha initial pear release 0.10.0 2004-08-30 PHP License alpha added optional $restrict-param for Date_Holidays_Driver::isHoliday() 0.11.0 2004-11-03 PHP License alpha Added driver and English languagefile for USA built by Kevin English. 0.12.0 2004-12-29 PHP License alpha - added Italian languagefile for Christian holidays (thx 2 quipo) - added performance-fix for getHolidayForDate() (thx 2 quipo) - added German translation for USA-holidays 0.13.0 2005-02-14 PHP License alpha - added Filters (Blacklist, Whitelist, Composite, Germany_Official) - improved Date_Holidays_Driver_Composite (allows executing setYear() now) - added new driver PHPdotNet - several cosmetic changes 0.14.0 2005-10-16 PHP License alpha - Switched from using INI files for translation to XML files - Added script to convert INI files to XML files - Added script to compile XML based language files - Holidays can now have various properties (see "languagefile-with-properties.xml" in examples-directory) - removed "againstNoiseDay" !BC break! from Germany driver, cannot be calculated automatically - new driver-methods: = addCompiledTranslationFile(), allows adding compiled language-data files for performance improvements = getHolidaysForDatespan(), returns holidays within a given time span - several bugfixes - Added filters for german federal states (contributed by Mark Wiesemann)