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| ===== What Year? ====== | ===== What Year? ====== | ||
| - | Someone in passing mentioned they had a project that could tell them the year of a vintage gig poster - I'd already built something into a bot to answer something similar, if I saw a poster in a bar and wondered if it was upcoming or not, I could ask "Adelaide is Fri Dec 1st this year?" and get a yes or no. | + | Someone in passing mentioned they had a project that could tell them the year of a vintage gig poster - I'd already built something into a bot to answer something similar when I was working on an events project, if I saw a poster in a bar and wondered if it was upcoming or not, I could ask "Adelaide is Fri Dec 1st this year?" and get a yes or no. |
| Due to how the string to time function in PHP works, it's not too difficult. Here is an expansion of the code to work for either a "day month date" or even just a "date month". | Due to how the string to time function in PHP works, it's not too difficult. Here is an expansion of the code to work for either a "day month date" or even just a "date month". | ||
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| + | For example if the poster has "Playing Tuesday 31st December" you can tell which year, and if it just has "Playing this Tuesday 31st" you can make a guess: | ||
| <code php what_year.php> | <code php what_year.php> | ||
| - | <?php | ||
| <?php | <?php | ||
| // Usage: ./what_year.php Tue 31st | // Usage: ./what_year.php Tue 31st | ||
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| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | The output for ''./what_year.php Tue 31st Dec'' is: | + | The output for ''./what_year.php Tue 31st'' is: |
| <code> | <code> | ||
| # *snipped* | # *snipped* | ||
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| Tue 31st occurs in Dec 2024 | Tue 31st occurs in Dec 2024 | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
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| + | [[/php_programs|Back to PHP teaching programs]] | ||
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