php calendar to generate checkboxes next to each date

[Kentor]

does anyone know of a script that would produce a calendar starting
from todays date with checkboxes next to every day of the month so that
the user is able to check it in case of an event for that day...
without specifying what the event is... just a simple checkbox..

[NC]

Kentor wrote:

does anyone know of a script that would produce a calendar starting
from todays date with checkboxes next to every day of the month so that
the user is able to check it in case of an event for that day...
without specifying what the event is... just a simple checkbox..

Something like this should do the trick:

$timestamp = time();
$month = date('m', $timestamp);
while ($month == date('m', $timestamp)) {
$dateMDY = date('F j, Y', $timestamp);
$dateYMD = date('Y-m-d', $timestamp);
echo "<input type='checkbox' name='dates[]' ",
"value='$dateYMD'>$dateMDY<br>\r\n";
$timestamp = $timestamp + 24*60*60;
}

This will give you a checkbox for every day from today until the end of
the current month... The list (or, rather, array) of checked dates
will be available to the receiving script as $_POST['dates'] or
$_GET['dates'], depending on what method the form uses.

Cheers,
NC

[David Quinton]

On 18 Apr 2006 17:18:33 -0700, "Kentor" <ke****@gmail.com> wrote:

does anyone know of a script that would produce a calendar starting
from todays date with checkboxes next to every day of the month so that
the user is able to check it in case of an event for that day...
without specifying what the event is... just a simple checkbox..

Modify something like this:
<http://www.micronetwork.de/activecalendar/>

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[Kentor]

perfect this little php script would do :) and i suppose
http://www.micronetwork.de/activecalendar/ would also work.. i just
need to play with it a bit.
NC: how would i display this for 12 months ahead, starting from the
current date? and have it all sorted by months only showing the date
number and the month as a header for each month, and then a big year
header for the 2 years that would appear?

[Kentor]

and also how would go about storing the checked boxes in the database
for faster usage and retrieving those dates that have been checked so i
could display a calendar with different colors for checked/non checked
dates? :)

[NC]

Kentor wrote:

NC: how would i display this for 12 months ahead, starting from the
current date? and have it all sorted by months only showing the date
number and the month as a header for each month, and then a big
year header for the 2 years that would appear?

$timestamp = time();
$cutoff = strtotime(date('Y-m-d 23:59:59', $timestamp) . ' + 1 year');
// you could use $cutoff = $timestamp + 365*24*60*60,
// but it ignores leap year...
$year = date('Y', $timestamp);
$month = date('m', $timestamp);
$month_text = date('F', $timestamp);
echo "<h1>$year</h1>\r\n";
echo "<h2>$month_text</h2>\r\n<p>";
while ($timestamp <= $cutoff) {
if ($year <> date('Y', $timestamp)) {
$year = date('Y', $timestamp);
echo "<h1>$year</h1>\r\n";
}
if ($month <> date('m', $timestamp)) {
$month = date('m', $timestamp);
$month_text = date('F', $timestamp);
echo "<h2>$month_text</h2><p>\r\n";
}
$day = date('j', $timestamp);
$dateYMD = date('Y-m-d', $timestamp);
echo "<input type='checkbox' name='dates[]' ",
"value='$dateYMD'>$day \r\n";
$timestamp = $timestamp + 24*60*60;
}

Cheers,
NC

[Kentor]

awsome, i just need to make this look nice now :)