PHP Calendar - Need some explanation :P

[blueice2]

Hi,
I'm fairly new to php and as a project I've decided to try (😃) and follow a guide to making a PHP calendar (over at devarticles. I've been getting on ok, referring to php.net to see what the different functions do but this piece of code has stumped me - I really dont undersand how it works:

for($i = 1; $i < $numDays+1; $i++, $counter++) 
{ 
$timeStamp = strtotime("$year-$month-$i"); 

if($i == 1) 
{ 
// Workout when the first day of the month is 
$firstDay = date("w", $timeStamp); 

for($j = 0; $j < $firstDay; $j++, $counter++) 
echo "<td>&nbsp;</td>"; 
} 

It might just be a matter of me looking more carefully but could someone attempt to explain what its achieving . Have a look at this if my question makes no sense what so ever 😛

Table headings for the days of the week start at Sunday and end at Saturday, however each different month could start on a different day, so we have to setup empty cells to push the 1st day of the month under its appropriate day

O_o

Cheers, and happy xmas to you all 😃
Henry

[daphreeek]

i'll give an example 2 explain this.

lets say you are making a calendar for Nov 2002. You will see it starts on a Friday, not a Sunday. Thus it should look like this:

Sun  Mon  Tues  Wed  Thur  Fri  Sat
                            1    2
 3    4    5     6     7    8    9.....

That may not look rite in ur browser, but the 1 is under fri then they go as normal 🙂

all that code does is insert the gap so that 1 is under the Fri heading, not sunday 🙂

• Matt

[blueice2]

Thanks Matt that helped 😃