Changing the start day

[geoffC]

Hello,

I'm trying to retro-fit this lovely script to an existing site.

The holiday cottage site, runs its bookings Fri-Fri.... is there an easy'ish way of getting your script to generate calenders Fri - Thurs?

Ta muchly

Geoff

[chris]

Hi,
What a strange day to start a calendar on!

I think I have got this working...

Open includes > functions.inc.php and find these lines within the draw_cal() function:

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if(CAL_START_DAY=="sun"){
   //$cal_row_counter=0;
   for($k=0; $k<7; $k++){
      $weekday = substr($lang["days"][$k],0,1);
      $the_cal.='<td class="cal_title" width="'.$td_width.'"> '.$weekday.'</td>';
   }
}else{
   //$cal_row_counter=1;
   if ($first_week_day == 0)   $first_week_day =7;
   for($k=1; $k<=7; $k++){
      if($k==7)    $weekday = substr($lang["days"][0],0,1);
      else      $weekday = substr($lang["days"][$k],0,1);
      $the_cal.='<td class="cal_title" width="'.$td_width.'"> '.$weekday.'</td>';
   }
}

Replace that whole block (or comment it out incase you change back at a later date) with this:

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//   friday start
$d=5;   # Friday is number 5
for($k=1; $k<=7; $k++){
   $the_cal.='<td class="cal_title" width="'.$td_width.'"> '.substr($lang["days"][$d],0,1).'</td>';
   ++$d;
   $d %= 7; # reset to 0
}

That sorts out the day titles, now for the actual calendar dates.
In fact the only thing that is needed is to adjust the padding days at the beginning of the month.

Find this code a few lines down from the last block:

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if(CAL_START_DAY=="sun")   $first_week_day_start   =   $first_week_day;   # start sunday
else                  $first_week_day         =   $first_week_day-1;   # current version starts monday


and change it to this:

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$first_week_day         =   $first_week_day+1;

All being well, that should be it.

Note - these changes completely override the var CAL_START_DAY defined in common,inc.php.

Let me know if you have any problems making the changes or if you spot something that I missed.

Chris

[geoffC]

Hi Chris,

Firstly thank you hugely for the very swift reply.

Yep.. friday is an odd day to start with!

Your modifications.. almost work!

The first bit.. puts all the days in the right order F S S M T W T (hooray!), however unless I am being particularly dense the dates are still a little out of whack...

I think September should look something like:

F S S M T W T
_ _ _ _ 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10

What I am getting is:

F S S M T W T
- - - 1 2 3 4
etc...

I've tried changing to +2

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$first_week_day         =   $first_week_day+2;

But that makes things a little more.. erm.. wobbly!

2 Screenshots..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94443948@N00/3929214220 ---- +1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/94443948@N00/3929218306 ---- +2

Sorry for all the fuss... I'm sure it's just me being particularly dense today!

Geoff

[chris]

hmmm, I got this:
http://www.cbolson.com/code/availabilit ... ts/geoffc/

Must have done something else to the code.....

Have you made any other changes to functions.inc.php?

If you want I can send you a zipped copy of my modified file.

Chris

[chris]

ah, a couple of lines down from the last change you probably have this:

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if($first_week_day!=7){
         for($week_day = 0; $week_day < $first_week_day; $week_day++){
            $the_cal.='<td class="cal_empty">'.$cal_no_day.'</td>';   
            $j++;
         }
      }

change that to this:

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if($first_week_day<6){
         for($week_day = 0; $week_day <= $first_week_day; $week_day++){
            $the_cal.='<td class="cal_empty">'.$cal_no_day.'</td>';   
            $j++;
         }
      }

Chris

[geoffC]

Lovely that has worked a treat.

For my next trick.. I now want to add an editable price per week, at the end of each <tr...

Wish me luck!

Thank you again Chris for the cracking script, and all the support today.

[Rawthey]

I'm trying to set the start day to Friday with version 3.03.03. I've applied the changes described above and it nearly works. The calendar starts on the right days but the F S S M T W T strip along the top of each month isn't getting displayed.
There's an example at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawthey/5805276081
Could you suggest what else I need to change to make this compatible with v3.03.03?

Here's the diffs between the original functions.inc.php and my mods:

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RCS file: RCS/functions.inc.php,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -b -r1.2 functions.inc.php
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< if(AC_START_DAY=="sun"){
< //$cal_row_counter=0;
<
< for($k=0; $k<7; $k++){
< $weekday = substr($lang["day_".$k.""],0,1);
< $list_day_titles.='<li class="cal_weekday"> '.$weekday.'</li>';
< }
< }else{
< //$cal_row_counter=1;
< if ($first_week_day == 0) $first_week_day =7;
---
> // friday start
> $d=5; # Friday is number 5
52,56c44,46
< //echo "<br>".$k;
< if($k==7) $weekday = substr($lang["day_0"][0],0,1);
< else $weekday = substr($lang["day_".$k.""],0,1);
< $list_day_titles.='<li title="'.$lang["day_".$k.""].'"> '.$weekday
< }
---
> $the_cal.='<td class="cal_title" width="'.$td_width.'"> '.substr($lang["days"][$d
> ++$d;
> $d %= 7; # reset to 0
59d48
<
61,65c50,51
< $j=1;
< if(AC_START_DAY=="sun") $first_week_day_start = $first_week_day; #
< else $first_week_day =
<
< if($first_week_day!=7){
---
> $first_week_day = $first_week_day+1;
> if($first_week_day<6){
68c54
< for($week_day = 0; $week_day < $first_week_day; $week_day++){
---
> for($week_day = 0; $week_day <= $first_week_day; $week_day++){

[Rawthey]

OK, I've solved it now. I just found the post in the Version 3 Support section which shows the changes I need.

I should have spotted this in the first place but I'd had to trawl through the forum manually because I had problems with the search facility which produced the following message when I searched for Changing the start day:

The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: changing start day the.
You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 3 characters and must not contain more than 14 characters excluding wildcards.

... and searching for just Changing start had the same result