Chapter 8. Calendaring, Right Place, and Right Time
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Building a CodeIgniter Calendar helper with database results
- Building an appointment manager with Calendar Library
- Creating a helper to work with a person's date of birth
- Working with fuzzy dates in CodeIgniter
Introduction
CodeIgniter comes bundled with many functions and helpers to help support your application when working with time and dates, calendars, and so on. We're going to use a few of them in this chapter, but we will also create a few helpers of our own, which can be useful in everyday tasks, such as calculating a person's age (useful for an age verification script) and working with fuzzy dates (that is, writing a description of the date or time rather than ...
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