Echo all months with days calendar

Question

I am using the code below to echo the current month. How can i enhance it so that is shows all the months with the names and days and dates..

Code:

 <?php
$today    = getdate();
$firstDay = getdate(mktime(0,0,0,$today['mon'],1,$today['year']));
$lastDay  = getdate(mktime(0,0,0,$today['mon']+1,0,$today['year']));


?>

<?php

echo '<table>';
echo '  <tr><th colspan="7">'.$today['month']." - ".$today['year']."</th></tr>";
echo '<tr class="days">';
echo '  <td>Mo</td><td>Tu</td><td>We</td><td>Th</td>';
echo '  <td>Fr</td><td>Sa</td><td>Su</td></tr>';
?> 

<?php
echo '<tr>';
for($i=1;$i<$firstDay['wday'];$i++){
    echo '<td>&nbsp;</td>';
}
$actday = 0;
for($i=$firstDay['wday'];$i<=7;$i++){
    $actday++;
    echo "<td>$actday</td>";
}
echo '</tr>';
?> 

<?php
$fullWeeks = floor(($lastDay['mday']-$actday)/7);

for ($i=0;$i<$fullWeeks;$i++){
    echo '<tr>';
    for ($j=0;$j<7;$j++){
        $actday++;
        echo "<td>$actday</td>";
    }
    echo '</tr>';
    }
    ?> 

    <?php
    if ($actday < $lastDay['mday']){
    echo '<tr>';

    for ($i=0; $i<7;$i++){
        $actday++;
        if ($actday <= $lastDay['mday']){
            echo "<td>$actday</td>";
        }
        else {
            echo '<td>&nbsp;</td>';
        }
    }

    echo '</tr>';
}
?> 

Answer 1

Try this:

function getDates($year)
{
    $dates = array();

    date("L", mktime(0,0,0, 7,7, $year)) ? $days = 366 : $days = 365;
    for($i = 1; $i <= $days; $i++){
        $month = date('m', mktime(0,0,0,1,$i,$year));
        $wk = date('W', mktime(0,0,0,1,$i,$year));
        $wkDay = date('D', mktime(0,0,0,1,$i,$year));
        $day = date('d', mktime(0,0,0,1,$i,$year));

        $dates[$month][$wk][$wkDay] = $day;
    } 

    return $dates;   
}

it will return an array of months->weeks->day->weekday of the year you pass to the function. Hopefully it should be easy to traverse through the array to print everything out. Am sure there are a lot of tweaks you can make to that but its a start.

I would also try and stay away from printing out html using echo, for example instead of;

echo '<tr>';
for($i=1;$i<$firstDay['wday'];$i++){
    echo '<td>&nbsp;</td>';
}

do;

<tr>;
<?php for($i=1;$i<$firstDay['wday'];$i++){ ?>
    <td><?php echo $var; ?></td>
<?php } ?>

It kind of makes the code more readable I think.

EDIT: Just thought I should include an example of a use case as well, as below:

<?php $dates = getDates(2011); 

$weekdays = array('Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun'); ?>
<?php foreach($dates as $month => $weeks) { ?>
<table>
    <tr>
        <th><?php echo implode('</th><th>', $weekdays); ?></th>
    </tr>
    <?php foreach($weeks as $week => $days){ ?>
    <tr>
        <?php foreach($weekdays as $day){ ?>
        <td>
            <?php echo isset($days[$day]) ? $days[$day] : '&nbsp'; ?>
        </td>               
        <?php } ?>
    </tr>
    <?php } ?>
</table>
<?php } ?>

Which gives you the output: