Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL® and Apache All in One, Fifth Edition

Chapter 24. Creating a Simple Calendar

In this chapter, you learn the following:

• How to build a simple calendar script

• How to view and add events in your calendar

• How to build a class library to generate date pull-downs in HTML forms

This chapter pulls together the skills you’ve learned so far regarding the PHP language and building small CRUD applications—those that create, retrieve, update, and delete data. In this chapter, you continue your learning in the context of creating a small calendar application.

Building a Simple Display Calendar

You’ll use the date and time functions you learned in Chapter 10, “Working with Strings, Dates, and Time,” to build a calendar that displays the dates for any month between 1990 and 2020. Those are ...