CSI: Miami Season 7 Premiere

On right now on CTV

Insane episode... 10pm Eastern on CBS for the rest of you guys (about 2.5 hours).

Regular blogging will start again soon... promise!

October 9^th EDIT: I just realized I put Season '9' instead of '7'... fixed!

What are you Playing this Weekend?

Wow, I haven't done this for a while!

It's my birthday weekend. Going to spend it back home with my parents. Bringing my PSP with me. I'm going to concentrate on a few games...

• Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness
• Patapon
• N⁺

So, like ol' times sake:

What are YOU playing this weekend?

Project Calendar - Month-View Generator

Here is the code of the function that generates the calendar, passing two variables (static or user generated).

function renderCalendar($strMonth, $strYear) {
     $date = mktime(12, 0, 0, $strMonth, 1, $strYear);
     $daysInMonth = date("t", $date);
     $dayOffset = date("w", $date);
  
     $calendarWeeks = ceil(($daysInMonth + $dayOffset) / 7) - 1; //how many weeks (rows) in the month
  
     echo "*****HTML Code for Table *****";

     for ($rowIndex = 0; $rowIndex <= $calendarWeeks; $rowIndex++) {
          echo "*****HTML Code for Table Row *****";
               for ($colIndex = 1; $colIndex <= 7; $colIndex++) {
                    $currentDay = ($colIndex - $dayOffset) + ($rowIndex * 7);

                    if ($currentDay < 1 or $currentDay > $daysInMonth) {
                         echo "*****HTML Code for empty cell *****";
                    } else {
                         echo "*****HTML Code for date cell *****";
                    }
               }
               echo "*****HTML Code for closing Table Row *****";
          }
     }

You can check the result here.

Project Calendar - First day of the month...

For quite a while, I have been doing some research on simple algorithms to find out what was the first day of the month, defining the offset. But then it hit me: "What if I just generate my date variable at the first of the current month?"...

Yes, that's all I had to do. Use mkdate(); using the current month and year (or user selected month and year) and make my date variable with the first day of the month. I can check the day of the week of any date variable with PHP...

...Simple!

I now have a working calendar that, by default, shows the current month. Users can then select a month and year (within certain ranges) and the calendar will change, with the correct number of days and the right starting day.

I'm cleaning up the code a little bit. I will upload it later and post the renderCalendar() function.

Project Calendar - In Goes Functions!

This is not an elaborate post on complex algorithm I just found out, no. This is just an update saying that I'm starting to put functions in my PHP code. For the sake of prototyping, I was putting my code directly in the Body (the linear way), but it's time to clean up before I start working on the offset (first day of the month) algorithm.