| PEAR Announce 2005-10-22, 6:57 pm |
| The new PEAR package Date_Holidays-0.14.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.
Release notes
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- Switched from using INI files for translation to XML files
- Added script to convert INI files to XML files
- Added script to compile XML based language files
- Holidays can now have various properties (see "languagefile-with-properties.xml" in examples-directory)
- removed "againstNoiseDay" !BC break! from Germany driver, cannot be calculated automatically
- new driver-methods:
= addCompiledTranslationFile(), allows adding compiled language-data files for performance improvements
= getHolidaysForDatespan(), returns holidays within a given time span
- several bugfixes
- Added filters for german federal states (contributed by Mark Wiesemann)
Package Info
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Date_Holidays helps you calculating the dates and titles of holidays and other special celebrations. The calculation is driver-based so it is easy to add new drivers that calculate a country's holidays. The methods of the class can be used to get a holida
y's date and title in various languages.
Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Date_Holidays
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Date_Ho...download/0.14.0
Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Date_Holidays-0.14.0.tgz
Authors
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Carsten Lucke <luckec@php.net> (lead)
Stephan Schmidt <schst@php.net> (helper)
Mark Wiesemann <wiesemann@php.net> (contributor)
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