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Calendar Class Bug Fix, version 2.8 available!

Jim Mayes — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:25:12 +0000

Just released a new version (2.8) of the calendar class with a bug fix for those using the class on windows servers. The windows platform does not support the %e (day of month) modifier to the strftime function. Instead, the modifier %#d must be used to achieve the same date format. Se the notice on the [...]

single text input form submit in IE

Jim Mayes — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:27:57 +0000

The previous form submit issues with IE post has generated some conversation in the post comments. In the original post I looked at the situation where you have a form with just a single text input and a submit button. The conversation developed to look at the situation where you have a form just with [...]

Form submit by enter key and Internet Explorer

Jim Mayes — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:00:43 +0000

Related: Submit Form when no submit button is present in IE Ran into an (other) interesting Internet Explorer bug. Seems that if you have a form with only a single text input, hitting the enter button will not submit the form in IE. User Name Verify User Name The solution is to hide an additional disabled input for IE [...]

calendar.class.php updates and new version release

Jim Mayes — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:10:38 +0000

Just put up the new version of my php calendar class (version 2.7). This version integrates a fix for the start of the week bug people were seeing with PHP version < 5.1. Also, the license has changed. The class is now licensed under the GPL for use in open source projects. So if you want [...]

Calendar class start of month weirdness and PHP < 5.1.0

Jim Mayes — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:11:52 +0000

A couple of calendar class users have noticed a problem with the first day of the month when using the class with versions of PHP earlier than 5.1.0. The issue was introduced with the last upgrade when I switched to date(”N”) for calculating the day that the first of the month falls on. date(”N”) was [...]

Something incredibly stupid…

Jim Mayes — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:39:11 +0000

So I spent a few days last week helping a client locate the source of a server compromise. The point of attack turned out to be a very poorly written php script. Apparently miffed by the initiative to turn register globals off, and yet too lazy to directly call only the variables that were supposed [...]

Calendar Class Bug Fix, version 2.6 available!

Jim Mayes — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:28:35 +0000

A couple of calendar class users noticed an issue with the feature for controlling the day that weeks start on. The class has been updated with a fix. The fix involves replacing the use of PHP’s data(”w”) with date(”N”). date(”N”) uses the ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week. Days of the week [...]

how to determin if a specific year is a leap year in PHP

Jim Mayes — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:59:33 +0000

I don’t know if I’m just on a refactoring kick lately or what… Ok, how to determine if a year is a leap year. And the related question, how many days are in a given month. If you’re working with dates, there’s a good chance you will need a way to do both at some [...]

ucwords() to convert a string to title case in PHP

Jim Mayes — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:05:37 +0000

I enjoy the challenge of solving a problem as much as the next guy, but sometimes it seems that PHP programmers have a tendency to apply great ingenuity in creating complex solutions for a fairly simple problem that actually already has a very simple solution. What’s more, these bits of code (we’ll call them “better [...]

calendar.class.php update (version 2.5) now available!

Jim Mayes — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:01:52 +0000

I have just released a new version of my PHP calendar generation class. This new version (version 2.5) implements some features users have requested in comments on this site. You can now specify the starting day of the week. The calendar can be set to only link the days specified in the $highlighted_dates array and, you [...]