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 developer wiesemann Mark Wiesemann wiesemann@php.net contributor 0.17.0 2006-12-16 PHP License alpha - Fixed bug #9319: 4th Advents Day not calculated right (quippo) - Added Danish holidays, contributed by Henrik Hansen - Added Slowenian holidays, contributed by Jakob Munih - Added Discordian holidays, contributed by Stephan 'Da:Sourcerer' Hohmann 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) 0.15.0 2006-01-06 PHP License alpha - Implemented request #5764 : Methods to get installed drivers and filters (schst) - Added driver for calculation of Swedish holidays, feature-request: #6350 (luckec) - Added unit-tests to package, added dynamic replacement of PEAR data-dir for language-files (luckec) 0.15.1 2006-01-15 PHP License alpha - added Midsummer Eve for Date_Holidays_Driver_Sweden (luckec) 0.15.2 2006-04-02 PHP License alpha - Fixed bug #7193 : signature of isHoliday() in composite driver was incorrect (schst) - Fixed bug #6729 : Veteran's Day wrong (schst) - minor refactorings (luckec) 0.16.0 2006-04-03 PHP License alpha - added method Date_Holidays::factoryISO3166() that allows to create drivers by a given ISO3166 code, this was request #6944 (luckec) 0.16.1 2006-08-13 PHP License alpha - bugfix for Date_Holidays::factoryISO3166(), which did return null instead of a PEAR_Error on failure (luckec) 0.17.0 2006-12-16 PHP License alpha - Fixed bug #9319: 4th Advents Day not calculated right (quippo) - Added Danish holidays, contributed by Henrik Hansen - Added Slowenian holidays, contributed by Jakob Munih - Added Discordian holidays, contributed by Stephan 'Da:Sourcerer' Hohmann