PHP - Display a unix calendar 1

[thewhistler1]

I am trying to display a calendar on my web page, just the current month. I think the easiest way to do this would be to just display a unix calendar with the cal command. I did this

$cal = `cal`;
$cal = nl2br($cal);
echo $cal;

but the numbers don't line up correctly.

Any one know how to make this look right or another simple way to display this months calendar?

Thanks for the help.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Yes, because whitespace characters are collapsed in HTML rendering.

Either display it with preserved whitespaces ( surrounded with [tt]pre[/tt] tags or with [tt]white-space: pre[/tt] style ), or split it up and put each day in its own [tt]table[/tt] cell.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[thewhistler1]

OK

How would I go about preserving the white space?

Thanks

 

[feherke]

Hi

How would I go about preserving the white space?

surrounded with [tt]pre[/tt] tags

$cal =  `cal`;
$cal = nl2br($cal);
echo [red]"<pre>[/red]$cal[red]</pre>"[/red];

or with [tt]white-space: pre[/tt] style

$cal =  `cal`;
$cal = nl2br($cal);
echo [red]"<p style=\"font-family: monospace; white-space: pre\">[/red]$cal[red]</p>"[/red];

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[thewhistler1]

Oh OK, I had never used the <pre> tags so I didn't follow what you meant. That worked.... thanks a lot.

 

[feherke]

Hi

split it up and put each day in its own [tt]table[/tt] cell.

Anyway, let us have this solution too.

$cal=`cal`;

foreach (split("\n",$cal) as $nr=>$line) if ($nr>1 && $line) {
  preg_match_all("/(..)./",$line,$match);
  echo "<tr><td>",join("</td><td>",array_map(create_function('$o','return trim($o)?$o:"&nbsp;";'),$match[1])),"</td></tr>\n";
}

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[feherke]

Hi

Oops, submitted too soon.

foreach (split("\n",$cal) as $nr=>$line) if ($nr>1 && $line) {
  preg_match_all("/(..).[red]?[/red]/",$line,$match);
  echo "<tr><td>",join("</td><td>",array_map(create_function('$o','return trim($o)?$o:"&nbsp;";'),$match[1])),"</td></tr>\n";
}

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/