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-rw-r--r--system/helpers/date_helper.php166
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst3
-rw-r--r--user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst24
3 files changed, 191 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/system/helpers/date_helper.php b/system/helpers/date_helper.php
index 9e58d8630..7bec8079d 100644
--- a/system/helpers/date_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/date_helper.php
@@ -695,5 +695,169 @@ if ( ! function_exists('timezones'))
}
}
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Date range
+ *
+ * Returns a list of dates within a specified period.
+ *
+ * @access public
+ * @param int unix_start UNIX timestamp of period start date
+ * @param int unix_end|days UNIX timestamp of period end date
+ * or interval in days.
+ * @param mixed is_unix Specifies wether the second @param
+ * is a UNIX timestamp or day interval
+ * - TRUE or 'unix' for a timestamp
+ * - FALSE or 'days' for an interval
+ * @param string date_format Output date format, same as in date()
+ * @return array
+ */
+if ( ! function_exists('date_range'))
+{
+ function date_range($unix_start = '', $mixed = '', $is_unix = TRUE, $format = 'Y-m-d')
+ {
+ if ($unix_start == '' OR $mixed == '' OR $format == '')
+ {
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+ $is_unix = ! ( ! $is_unix OR $is_unix === 'days');
+
+ // Validate input and try strtotime() on invalid timestamps/intervals, just in case
+ if ( ( ! preg_match('/^[0-9]+$/', $unix_start) && ($unix_start = @strtotime($unix_time)) === FALSE)
+ OR ( ! preg_match('/^[0-9]+$/', $mixed) && ($is_unix === FALSE OR ($mixed = @strtotime($mixed)) === FALSE))
+ OR ($is_unix === TRUE && $mixed < $unix_start))
+ {
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+ if ($is_unix && ($unix_start == $mixed OR date($format, $unix_start) === date($format, $mixed)))
+ {
+ return array($start_date);
+ }
+
+ $range = array();
+
+ if (is_php('5.2'))
+ {
+ /* NOTE: Even though the DateTime object has many useful features, it appears that
+ * it doesn't always handle properly timezones, when timestamps are passed
+ * directly to its constructor. Neither of the following gave proper results:
+ *
+ * new DateTime('<timestamp>')
+ * new DateTime('<timestamp>', '<timezone>')
+ *
+ * --- available in PHP 5.3:
+ *
+ * DateTime::createFromFormat('<format>', '<timestamp>')
+ * DateTime::createFromFormat('<format>', '<timestamp>', '<timezone')
+ *
+ * ... so we'll have to set the timestamp after the object is instantiated.
+ * Furthermore, in PHP 5.3 we can use DateTime::setTimestamp() to do that and
+ * given that we have UNIX timestamps - we should use it.
+ */
+ $from = new DateTime();
+
+ if (is_php('5.3'))
+ {
+ $from->setTimestamp($unix_start);
+ if ($is_unix)
+ {
+ $arg = new DateTime();
+ $arg->setTimestamp($mixed);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ $arg = (int) $mixed;
+ }
+ $period = new DatePeriod($from, new DateInterval('P1D'), $arg);
+ $range = array();
+ foreach ($period as $date)
+ {
+ $range[] = $date->format($format);
+ }
+
+ /* If a period end date was passed to the DatePeriod constructor, it might not
+ * be in our results. Not sure if this is a bug or it's just possible because
+ * the end date might actually be less than 24 hours away from the previously
+ * generated DateTime object, but either way - we have to append it manually.
+ */
+ if ( ! is_int($arg) && $range[count($range) - 1] !== $arg->format($format))
+ {
+ $range[] = $arg->format($format);
+ }
+
+ return $range;
+ }
+
+ $from->setDate(date('Y', $unix_start), date('n', $unix_start), date('j', $unix_start));
+ $from->setTime(date('G', $unix_start), date('i', $unix_start), date('s', $unix_start));
+ if ($is_unix)
+ {
+ $arg = new DateTime();
+ $arg->setDate(date('Y', $mixed), date('n', $mixed), date('j', $mixed));
+ $arg->setTime(date('G', $mixed), date('i', $mixed), date('s', $mixed));
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ $arg = (int) $mixed;
+ }
+ $range[] = $from->format($format);
+
+ if (is_int($arg)) // Day intervals
+ {
+ do
+ {
+ $from->modify('+1 day');
+ $range[] = $from->format($format);
+ }
+ while (--$arg > 0);
+ }
+ else // end date UNIX timestamp
+ {
+ for ($from->modify('+1 day'), $end_check = $arg->format('Ymd'); $from->format('Ymd') < $end_check; $from->modify('+1 day'))
+ {
+ $range[] = $from->format($format);
+ }
+
+ // Our loop only appended dates prior to our end date
+ $range[] = $arg->format($format);
+ }
+
+ return $range;
+ }
+
+ /* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * PHP Version is < 5.2. We have no other option, but to calculate manually ...
+ *
+ * NOTE: If we do something like this:
+ *
+ * $unix_timestamp + 86400
+ *
+ * ... due to DST, there's a possibility of calculation errors and/or incorrect
+ * hours generated (if the specified format displays such data) due to DST.
+ */
+
+ $from = $to = array();
+ sscanf(date('Y-n-j G:i:s', $unix_start), '%d-%d-%d %d:%d:%d', $from['y'], $from['mo'], $from['d'], $from['h'], $from['mi'], $from['s']);
+
+ // If we don't have the end timestamp, let mktime() calculate it
+ $unix_end = ($is_unix) ? (int) $mixed : mktime($from['h'], $from['mi'], $from['s'], $from['mo'], $from['d'] + $mixed, $from['y']);
+
+ $end_check = date('Ymd', $unix_end);
+ while (date('Ymd', $unix_start = mktime($from['h'], $from['mi'], $from['s'], $from['mo'], $from['d'], $from['y'])) !== $end_check)
+ {
+ $range[] = date($format, $unix_start);
+ $from['d']++;
+ }
+
+ // Our loop only appended dates prior to our end date
+ $range[] = date($format, $unix_end);
+
+ return $range;
+ }
+}
+
/* End of file date_helper.php */
-/* Location: ./system/helpers/date_helper.php */ \ No newline at end of file
+/* Location: ./system/helpers/date_helper.php */
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 385eb4825..ac480cfe1 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ Release Date: Not Released
- url_title() will now trim extra dashes from beginning and end.
- Added XHTML Basic 1.1 doctype to :doc:`HTML Helper <helpers/html_helper>`.
- - Changed humanize to include a second param for the separator.
+ - Changed humanize() to include a second param for the separator.
+ - Added date_range() to the :doc:`Date Helper <helpers/html_helper>`.
- Database
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
index ad06dd628..f965e6166 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/date_helper.rst
@@ -296,6 +296,30 @@ Example
If the second parameter is empty, the current year will be used.
+date_range()
+============
+
+Returns a list of dates within a specified period.
+
+.. php:method:: date_range($unix_start = '', $mixed = '', $is_unix = TRUE, $format = 'Y-m-d')
+
+ :param integer $unix_start: UNIX timestamp of the range start date
+ :param integer $mixed: UNIX timestamp of the range end date or interval in days
+ :param boolean $is_unix: set to FALSE if $mixed is not a timestamp
+ :param string $format: output date format, same as in date()
+ :returns: array
+
+Example
+
+::
+
+ $range = date_range('2012-01-01', '2012-01-15');
+ echo "First 15 days of 2012:";
+ foreach ($range as $date)
+ {
+ echo $date."\n";
+ }
+
timezones()
===========