VB format syntax
Using the Visual Basic format() function
The Format function converts a value to a text string and gives you control over the string's appearance. For example, you can specify the number of decimal places for a numeric value, leading or trailing zeros, currency formats, and portions of the date. The syntax is:
Syntax
Format(expression [,format [,firstdayofweek [,firstweekofyear]]])
expression
Any valid expression
format
A valid named or user-defined format expression
firstdayofweek
A constant that specifies the first day of the week
firstweekofyear
A constant that specifies the first week of the year The firstdayofweek argument has these settings: Constant Value Description
vbUseSystem 0 Use NLS API setting.
vbSunday 1 Sunday (default)
vbMonday 2 Monday
vbTuesday 3 Tuesday
vbWednesday 4 Wednesday
vbThursday 5 Thursday
vbFriday 6 Friday
vbSaturday 7 Saturday
The firstweekofyear argument has these settings: Constant Value Description
vbUseSystem 0 Use NLS API setting.
vbFirstJan1 1 Start with week in which January 1 occurs (default).
vbFirstFourDays 2 Start with the first week that has at least four days in the year.
vbFirstFullWeek 3 Start with the first full week of the year.
Notes
If you try to format a number without specifying format, Format provides functionality similar to the Str function, although it is internationally aware. However, positive numbers formatted as strings using Format don’t include a leading space reserved for the sign of the value; those converted using Str retain the leading space.
If you are formatting a non-localized numeric string, you should use a user-defined numeric format to ensure that you get the look you want.
If the Calendar property setting is Gregorian and format specifies date formatting, the supplied expression must be Gregorian. If the Visual Basic Calendar property setting is Hijri, the supplied expression must be Hijri.
If the calendar is Gregorian, the meaning of format expression symbols is unchanged. If the calendar is Hijri, all date format symbols (for example, dddd, mmmm, yyyy) have the same meaning but apply to the Hijri calendar. Format symbols remain in English; symbols that result in text display (for example, AM and PM) display the string (English or Arabic) associated with that symbol. The range of certain symbols changes when the calendar is Hijri.
Formatting Symbols
Character Description
None
No formatting Display the number with no formatting.
: Time separator. In some locales, other characters may be used to represent the time separator. The time separator separates hours, minutes, and seconds when time values are formatted. The actual character used as the time separator in formatted output is determined by your system settings.
/ Date separator. In some locales, other characters may be used to represent the date separator. The date separator separates the day, month, and year when date values are formatted. The actual character used as the date separator in formatted output is determined by your system settings.
C Display the date as ddddd and display the time as t t t t t, in that order. Display only date information if there is no fractional part to the date serial number; display only time information if there is no integer portion.
D Display the day as a number without a leading zero (1 - 31).
dd Display the day as a number with a leading zero (01 - 31).
ddd Display the day as an abbreviation (Sun - Sat).
dddd Display the day as a full name (Sunday - Saturday).
ddddd Display the date as a complete date (including day, month, and year), formatted according to your system's short date format setting. The default short date format is m/d/yy.
dddddd Display a date serial number as a complete date (including day, month, and year) formatted according to the long date setting recognized by your system. The default long date format is mmmm dd, yyyy.
w Display the day of the week as a number (1 for Sunday through 7 for Saturday).
ww Display the week of the year as a number (1 - 53).
m Display the month as a number without a leading zero (1 - 12). If m immediately follows h or hh, the minute rather than the month is displayed.
MM Display the month as a number with a leading zero (01 - 12). If m immediately follows h or hh, the minute rather than the month is displayed.
MMM Display the month as an abbreviation (Jan - Dec).
MMMM Display the month as a full month name (January - December).
q Display the quarter of the year as a number (1 - 4).
y Display the day of the year as a number (1 - 366).
yy Display the year as a 2-digit number (00 - 99).
yyyy Display the year as a 4-digit number (100 - 9666).
h Display the hour as a number without leading zeros (0 - 23).
hh Display the hour as a number with leading zeros (00 - 23).
n Display the minute as a number without leading zeros (0 - 59).
nn Display the minute as a number with leading zeros (00 - 59).
s Display the second as a number without leading zeros (0 - 59).
ss Display the second as a number with leading zeros (00 - 59).
t t t t t Display a time as a complete time (including hour, minute, and second), formatted using the time separator defined by the time format recognized by your system. A leading zero is displayed if the leading zero option is selected and the time is before 10:00 A.M. or P.M. The default time format is h:mm:ss.
AM/PM Use the 12-hour clock and display an uppercase AM with any hour before noon; display an uppercase PM with any hour between noon and 11:59 P.M.
am/pm Use the 12-hour clock and display a lowercase AM with any hour before noon; display a lowercase PM with any hour between noon and 11:59 P.M.
A/P Use the 12-hour clock and display an uppercase A with any hour before noon; display an uppercase P with any hour between noon and 11:59 P.M.
a/p Use the 12-hour clock and display a lowercase A with any hour before noon; display a lowercase P with any hour between noon and 11:59 P.M.
AMPM Use the 12-hour clock and display the AM string literal as defined by your system with any hour before noon; display the PM string literal as defined by your system with any hour between noon and 11:59 P.M. AMPM can be either uppercase or lowercase, but the case of the string displayed matches the string as defined by your system settings. The default format is AM/PM.
0
Digit placeholder Display a digit or a zero. If the expression has a digit in the position where the 0 appears in the format string, display it; otherwise, display a zero in that position. If the number has fewer digits than there are zeros (on either side of the decimal) in the format expression, display leading or trailing zeros. If the number has more digits to the right of the decimal separator than there are zeros to the right of the decimal separator in the format expression, round the number to as many decimal places as there are zeros. If the number has more digits to the left of the decimal separator than there are zeros to the left of the decimal separator in the format expression, display the extra digits without modification.
#
Digit placeholder
Display a digit or nothing. If the expression has a digit in the position where the # appears in the format string, display it; otherwise, display nothing in that position. This symbol works like the 0 digit placeholder, except that leading and trailing zeros aren't displayed if the number has the same or fewer digits than there are # characters on either side of the decimal separator in the format expression.
.
Decimal placeholder
In some locales, a comma is used as the decimal separator. The decimal placeholder determines how many digits are displayed to the left and right of the decimal separator. If the format expression contains only number signs to the left of this symbol, numbers smaller than 1 begin with a decimal separator. If you always want a leading zero displayed with fractional numbers, use 0 as the first digit placeholder to the left of the decimal separator instead. The actual character used as a decimal placeholder in the formatted output depends on the Number Format recognized by your system.
%
Percent placeholder The expression is multiplied by 100. The percent character (%) is inserted in the position where it appears in the format string.
,
Thousand separator In some locales, a period is used as a thousand separator. The thousand separator separates thousands from hundreds within a number that has four or more places to the left of the decimal separator. Standard use of the thousand separator is specified if the format contains a thousand separator surrounded by digit placeholders (0 or #). Two adjacent thousand separators or a thousand separator immediately to the left of the decimal separator (whether or not a decimal is specified) means “scale the number by dividing it by 1000, rounding as needed.” You can scale large numbers using this technique. For example, you can use the format string “##0,,” to represent 100 million as 100. Numbers smaller than 1 million are displayed as 0. Two adjacent thousand separators in any position other than immediately to the left of the decimal separator are treated simply as specifying the use of a thousand separator. The actual character used as the thousand separator in the formatted output depends on the Number Format recognized by your system.
:
Time separator In some locales, other characters may be used to represent the time separator. The time separator separates hours, minutes, and seconds when time values are formatted. The actual character used as the time separator in formatted output is determined by your system settings.
/
Date separator In some locales, other characters may be used to represent the date separator. The date separator separates the day, month, and year when date values are formatted. The actual character used as the date separator in formatted output is determined by your system settings.
E- E+ e- e+
Scientific format If the format expression contains at least one digit placeholder (0 or #) to the right of E-, E+, e-, or e+, the number is displayed in scientific format and E or e is inserted between the number and its exponent. The number of digit placeholders to the right determines the number of digits in the exponent. Use E- or e- to place a minus sign next to negative exponents. Use E+ or e+ to place a minus sign next to negative exponents and a plus sign next to positive exponents.
- + $ ( ) space
Display a literal character To display a character other than one of those listed, precede it with a backslash (\) or enclose it in double quotation marks (” “).
\
Display the next character in the format string Many characters in the format expression have a special meaning and can't be displayed as literal characters unless they are preceded by a backslash. The backslash itself isn't displayed. Using a backslash is the same as enclosing the next character in double quotation marks. To display a backslash, use two backslashes (\). Examples of characters that can't be displayed as literal characters are the date- and time-formatting characters (a, c, d, h, m, n, p, q, s, t, w, y, and /:), the numeric-formatting characters (#, 0, %, E, e, comma, and period), and the string-formatting characters (@, &, <, >, and !).
“ABC”
Display the string inside the double quotation marks To include a string in format from within code, you must use Chr(34) to enclose the text (34 is the character code for a double quotation mark).
@
Character placeholder Display a character or a space. If the string has a character in the position where the @ appears in the format string, display it; otherwise, display a space in that position. Placeholders are filled from right to left unless there is an ! character in the format string. See below.
&
Character placeholder Display a character or nothing. If the string has a character in the position where the & appears, display it; otherwise, display nothing. Placeholders are filled from right to left unless there is an ! character in the format string. See below.
<
Force lowercase Display all characters in lowercase format.
>
Force uppercase Display all characters in uppercase format.
!
Force left to right fill of placeholders The default is to fill from right to left.
Named Formats
Visual Basic provides several standard formats to use with the Format function. Instead of using symbols, you specify these formats by name in the format argument of the Format function. Always enclose the format name in double quotation marks (“”). The following table lists the format names you can use. Named format Description
General Number Shows numbers as entered.
Currency Shows negative numbers inside parentheses.
Fixed Shows at least one digit.
Standard Uses a thousands separator.
Percent Multiplies the value by 100 with a percent sign at the end.
Scientific Uses standard scientific notation.
General Date Shows date and time if expression contains both. If expression is only a date or a time, the missing information is not displayed.
Long Date Uses the Long Date format specified in the Regional Settings dialog box of the Microsoft Windows Control Panel.
Medium Date Uses the dd-mmm-yy format (for example, 03-Apr-93)
Short Date Uses the Short Date format specified in the Regional Settings dialog box of the Windows Control Panel.
Long Time Shows the hour, minute, second, and “AM” or “PM” using the h:mm:ss format.
Medium Time Shows the hour, minute, and “AM” or “PM” using the “hh:mm AM/PM” format.
Short Time Shows the hour and minute using the hh:mm format.
Yes/No Any nonzero numeric value (usually - 1) is Yes. Zero is No.
True/False Any nonzero numeric value (usually - 1) is True. Zero is False.
On/Off Any nonzero numeric value (usually - 1) is On. Zero is Off.
Multiple Formats
A user-defined format expression can have from one to four sections separated by semicolons. (If the format argument contains one of the named formats, only one section is allowed.) If you use The result is
One section The format expression applies to all values.
Two sections The first section applies to positive values and zeros, the second to negative values.
Three sections The first section applies to positive values, the second to negative values, and the third to zeros.
Four sections The first section applies to positive values, the second to negative values, the third to zeros, and the fourth to Null values.
The following example has two sections: the first defines the format for positive values and zeros; the second section defines the format for negative values.
$#,##0;($#,##0)
If you include semicolons with nothing between them, the missing section is printed using the format of the positive value. For example, the following format displays positive and negative values using the format in the first section and displays “Zero” if the value is zero.
$#,##0;;\Z\e\r\o
Note If you try to format a number without specifying format, Format provides the same functionality as the Str function. However, positive numbers formatted as strings using Format lack the leading space reserved for displaying the sign of the value; whereas, those converted using Str retain the leading space.
Examples
The following conversions assume that the country in the Windows Control Panel is set to “English (United States).” Format syntax Result
Format(8315.4, “00000.00”) 08315.40
Format(8315.4, “#####.##”) 8315.4
Format(8315.4, “##,##0.00”) 8,315.40
Format(315.4, “$##0.00”) $315.40
Format(7, “0.00%”) 700.00%
Format(“This Is A Test”, “<”) this is a test
Format(“This Is A Test”, “>”) THIS IS A TEST
Format(Now, “m/d/yy”) 1/27/93
Format(Now, “dddd, mmmm dd, yyyy”) Wednesday, January 27, 1993
Format(Now, “d-mmm”) 27-Jan
Format(Now, “mmmm-yy”) January-93
Format(Now, “hh:mm AM/PM”) 07:18 AM
Format(Now, “h:mm:ss a/p”) 7:18:00 a
Format(Now, “d-mmmm h:mm” 27-January 7:18
Format(Now, “d-mmmm-yy”) 27-January-93
Format(Now, “d mmmm”) 27 January
Format(Now, “mmmm yy”) January 93
Format(Now, “hh:mm AM/PM”) 08:50 PM
Format(Now, “h:mm:ss a/p”) 8:50:35 p
Format(Now, “h:mm”) 20:50
Format(Now, “h:mm:ss”) 20:50:35
Format(Now, “m/d/yy h:mm”) 1/27/93 20:50
Format (format) Positive 5 Negative 5 Decimal .5 Null
Zero-length string 5 -5 0.5
0 5 -5 1
0.00 5.00 -5.00 0.50
#,##0 5 -5 1
#,##0.00;;;Nil 5.00 -5.00 0.50 Nil
$#,##0;($#,##0) $5 ($5) $1
$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00) $5.00 ($5.00) $0.50
0% 500% -500% 50%
0.00% 500.00% -500.00% 50.00%
0.00E+00 5.00E+00 -5.00E+00 5.00E-01
0.00E-00 5.00E00 -5.00E00 5.00E-01
Credit
Most of this is a re-hash of the documentation available from Microsoft. But Microsoft has its Format() documentation spread out in a number of loosely related entries, instead of being in one place.
String Formating in VB
Labels: VisualBasic 0 commentsby gini at 4:06 AM
Calnder using PHP and Ajax
Labels: Ajax, PHP 0 commentsOnline calendars are often used in many web applications. Though popular, the logic behind creating a calendar can be scary especially for those who are new to programming. There are many web calendars in the market but some of them are quite complicated. If we are not able to understand the code, it becomes harder for us to customise the calendar to fit into our existing application. As such, we need to create a calendar that can plug itself into any system seamlessly without problems. Whether we are using Wordpress, Mambo/Joomla or Drupal, we should only need to insert one line into our code for the calendar to work. ie something like this:
require_once('quick_calendar.php');
?>
If you are already bored at this point or not interested to know how to create a web calendar, feel free to see a live demo of the simple calendar here. The installation procedures is in the source code.
Other than configuring the database access for the calendar, I do not want to change other things. With AJAX, I could even make the page static as I navigate between different months in the calendar. In this tutorial, I would like to share with you a simple calendar I created that fufills the objectives discussed above. The tutorial assumes that you have basic knowledge of PHP and SQL but don't worry, the actual code is minimal and you should be able to customise it easily by reading at the comments. I used PHP 4 so that it is compatible with most servers. You should also be able to re-create the calendar easily in other programming languages using the same logic.
The First Step: Problem Identification
Perhaps the hardest part in creating a calendar is to come up with a good solution to display the days of the month in the correct column, ie Monday, Tuesday..etc.
Apr 2006
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30
Let us take April 2006 for example. There are 30 days and 6 rows in the calendar. If we are given a day in the month, say 15, we have to know that it falls on a saturday and is in the third row (third week). We cannot take for granted that the first day is always the first cell in the table (top left cell). Sometimes, we get 4 or 5 weeks in a month. Only if we know how many days are there in a certain month and which day the first of the month falls in only can we construct the calender as shown above.
Getting Crucial information From The PHP Date function
PHP provides a date() function that gives us alot of useful information about the days and months of the year. To built the calendar for any month, We need 2 important pieces of information from the Date function, ie the "number of days in the month" and a "numeric representation of the first day of the month".
I can get today's date easily from the following code:
// get year, eg 2006$year = date('Y');// get month, eg 04$month = date('n');// get day, eg 3$day = date('j');To get the number of days in this month, I will use the both the date and mktime function like so:
// get number of days in month, eg 28$daysInMonth = date("t",mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,$year));The numeric representation of the day of the week ranges from 0 to 6. 0 is sunday and 6 is saturday. Again, to get the numeric first day of this month, the function mktime comes in handy.
// get first day of the month, eg 4$firstDay = date("w", mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,$year));The Monthly Calendar As A 2-D Array
If we look at the calendar again for April 2006, we will see that it is actually a table(grid) filled with values starting from 1 to x (no of days in the month). The first day of the month is a variable though... It can occur in any day of the week. In the table, imagine each cell as having coordinates (x,y), starting from the top left cell as (0,0) and the bottom right cell as (5,6). In the month of April, the first day of the month is stored in coordinate (0,6). So, the plan now is to store the days of the month in a 2-D Array.
Firstly, we want to know the number of cells needed.
// calculate total spaces needed in array$tempDays = $firstDay + $daysInMonth;Then we want to know the number of rows needed.
// calculate total rows needed$weeksInMonth = ceil($tempDays/7);Populating The 2-D Array
Knowing the number of rows and columns in the 2-D array, we can now fill the arrays with values using 2 for-loops. The first cell will start with a value of 1 and the subsequent cells will have their values increased by 1 till it reaches the end of the array.
for($j=0;$j<$weeksInMonth;$j++) {
for($i=0;$i<7;$i++) {
$counter++;
$week[$j][$i] = $counter;
}
}
?>
For the month of April, the temporary array should be something like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 32 33 34 35
36 37 38 39 40 41 42
The Magic Offset
As you can see, the array above is not correct. The first day of April, ie value 1 should be in (0,6) instead of (0,0). Remeber the variable $firstDay? It is the numeric representation of the first day of month which happens to be 6 in April 2006. If we subtract $firstDay from all the values in the array, we will get the array as follows:
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31 32 33 34 35 36
You should now be able to guess what we are going to do next. Looking at the array above, you see that we already got the values we want but we also have some unwanted values. Any number less than 1 or more than $daysInMonth (number of days in a month) should be ignored.
function fillArray() {
// create a 2-d array
for($j=0;$j<$this->weeksInMonth;$j++) {
for($i=0;$i<7;$i++) {
$counter++;
$this->week[$j][$i] = $counter;
// offset the days
$this->week[$j][$i] -= $this->firstDay;
if (($this->week[$j][$i] < 1) || ($this->week[$j][$i] > $this->daysInMonth)) {
$this->week[$j][$i] = "";
}
}
}
}
?>
This is the core function in the entire calendar generation algorithm.
Displaying The Calendar
Getting the values right in the 2-D array, we are now ready to display them. Now, we will create a table and start looping again using the foreach function.
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $date | "; } echo "||||||
The final display will be like this:
Apr 2006
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30
We now have a plain calendar.
Adding Special Dates To The Calendar
This calendar only tells you "the days of a week" at the moment and is not very useful. Most online calendar will have reminders as well. Say for example, if my birthday falls on the 4th of April, I want the number 4 in the calendar be displayed differently, possible with a hyperlink in which upon clicking on it, will perform some task like redirecting me to a certain page or displaying more information about myself in a popup windows..etc. To do that, we need to a table in the database with at least 6 columns: id, day, month, year, link, desc.
CREATE TABLE calendar (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
day VARCHAR( 2 ) NOT NULL ,
month VARCHAR( 2 ) NOT NULL ,
year VARCHAR( 4 ) NOT NULL ,
link VARCHAR( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
desc TEXT NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( id )
);
We then need to insert some data into the table for testing:
INSERT INTO calendar ( id , day , month , year , link , desc )
VALUES (
'', '24', '*', '2006', 'http://www.sitecritic.net', 'Check your web cccount on the 24th of every month. 2006 only!'
), (
'', '5', '11', '2006', 'some_javascript_funtion', 'Olympics, remember to buy ticket from alice.'
),(
'', '2', '1', '2007', 'some_javascript_funtion', 'early 2007. Any new plans for the year?'
), (
'', '9', '*', '*', 'http://www.evolt.org', 'Remember to check updates from evolt.org every month.'
);
The * under the month or year column means every month or year.
Next, we do a query and extract the important dates for a certain month and store it in an array.
$sql = "SELECT * FROM calendar WHERE (month='$month' AND year='$year') || (month='*' AND year='$year') || (month='$month' AND year='*') || (month='*' AND year='*')";
$rs = $db->query($sql);
while ($rw = $rs->fetchRow()) {
extract($rw);
$links[] = array('day'=>$day', 'month'=>$month, 'year'=>$year, 'link'=>$link, 'desc'=>$desc);
}
?>
If we create a class to generate the calendar, we need to pass the $links array into the class like so:
$cal = &new Calendar($cArray, $today, $links, $css);
$cal->render();
?>
The $cArray is a class containing the array for the plain calendar as shown in step 6. The $today variable is today's date. The $links variable contains the important dates in this month. With the $css variable, we can decorate the calendar table and make it look nicer.
Adding AJAX Capability
To make the calendar more user friendly, we want to be able to navigate easily between the months or years without refreshing the page. Thanks to AJAX, we can now do that easily. If the user clicks on "next month" for example, we need to call the AJAX function to refresh the calendar without refreshing the page. We do that using XMLHttpRequest. This is the main code that does the trick.
http.open('get', 'quick_calendar.php?m='+m+&y='+y+'&ran='+ran_no);After I get a response from the AJAX function, i need to update the calender. The calendar is wrapped around with the div tag called 'quickCalender'. I just need to rewrite the contents of the tag on the fly.
document.getElementById("quickCalender").innerHTML = http.responseText; Conclusion and Future Improvements
In this tutorial, we went through the concept of how to create a web calendar using AJAX and PHP. I left the details in the code to prevent the tutorial becoming too long and indigestable. If you look at the code hard enough, you will notice that I packed alot of codes in one file. As a good programming practice, I should have broken them down into smaller parts/files. Because the objective of this project is to create a quick "plug and forget" calendar system, I did that on purpose.
Also, the object oriented approach I used in the code may not be flexible enough if I want to have different layouts for the calendar. The problem can be easily fixed by using inheritance, ie creating a superclass for the QuickCalendar class. We can then have BrownCalendar, SpecialCalendar ...etc.
Hope you enjoy reading this tutorial as much as I wrote it. The full demo can be seen here and source code is here.
Bernard Peh specialises mainly in SEO and PHP programming. He is also the web developer behind Sitecritic.net Web Design. During his free time, he maintains his melbourne web developer blog.
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dcal
Submitted by Douglas Clifton on November 14, 2006 - 21:59.
dcal is a PHP calendar I wrote a few years ago. It will display any year or month from 1970 to 2037 and includes holidays, moon phases, the vernal and autumnal equinox, summer and winter solstices, and some other goodies including a slick JavaScript slider interface for jumping directly to a particular month.
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Hi Bernard, just so you know
Submitted by dmackinn on November 23, 2006 - 16:19.
Hi Bernard, just so you know the source code and the demo links appear to be broken.
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Great Article
Submitted by cianuro on November 23, 2006 - 20:24.
Great article Bernard. Although there are many perfectly decent calendar apps already out there made by the big guys, it's nice to follow along the creative process. And it seems the URLs are fied now. Regards Dave
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There's a problem...
Submitted by daiBach on November 30, 2006 - 17:22.
If you are in December and try to navigate back one month then the year gets incremented as well e.g. moving from Dec 06 to Nov 06 actually brings up Nov 07.
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changes to the script
Submitted by bpeh on December 2, 2006 - 10:02.
thanks all esp daibach for pointing out the error, I've updated the script: php calendar. I emailed the admin with the changes but it wasnt updated. I did a typo with the link in the first paragraph. The link in last paragraph is fine.
there is also an extended version http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/quick_calendar_demo2.php
the source code is http://web-developer.sitecritic.net/quick_calendar.txt
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Good script. On your
Submitted by bichenoubi on December 4, 2006 - 06:39.
Good script. On your website, on the simple version, there is still errors if you go back and froth a couple of time between dec 2006 and jan 2007. On the extended version, there is no problem. One advice, even thought this is not the point of the article, for accessibility reasons, you should remove the hre f = "java script:; "(errors only for evolt filter) and replace it with the ajax function, eg: hre f="quick_calendar2.php ? m=11&y=2006"(errors only for evolt filter). You will only have to change a bit the php code to find a new way to send only calendar html code for your ajax functions (i.e. your already there random var?).
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thx for your script.but your
Submitted by jabky on December 4, 2006 - 08:30.
thx for your script.but your source code up there are not like your extended version. and i try to change like gichenoubi said but it still doesn't work for me. i'm the newbie in ajax
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Some quickCalendar fixes
Submitted by kirk837 on January 5, 2007 - 07:13.
1. To fix the Jan->Dec problem in the "simple" version: In createHeader(), in elseif ($prevMonth==0){, need to add the forgotten statement $prevMonth=12;
2. The "jumpiness" of dates in calendar body when changing month to month is fixed by css changes:
td {height: 22px; border: 0px;
.today and .link {padding: 1px;
Jumpiness of the entire page is improved by setting weeksInMonth (in CreateQCalendarArray) to 6 (this sometimes leaves a blank bottom week, but it keeps the rest of the page from jumping).
3. I found it necessary to initialize the links[] array to '' prior to filling it in the "while mysql_fetch_array" loop, to avoid empty array errors at the foreach loop in createBody. Don't know why this isn't a problem for the posted demo.
4. Each next/previous month or year causes the entire css to again be written to the page, making the page increasingly large (to see this, save the page and examine in an editor). Here's a fix: Place css in quick_calendar.css; in function createHeader, read in the css within the "class=calendar" table with fread:
$this->html = "
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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