Discordian date: Difference between revisions

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=={{header|PHP}}==

<lang PHP><?php

// Discordian dating machine. Accepts date from PHP function date() or from the URL.

// The Discordian calendar has 5 days in a week, 73 days in a month and 5 months in a year.

// Ex. ddate.php will generate todays date according to your computer

// Ex. ddate.php?y=2012&m=2&y=29 will generate the date for Feb. 29, 2012

$DAYS = array("Sweetmorn","Boomtime","Pungenday","Prickle-Prickle","Setting Orange");

$MONTHS = array("Chaos","Discord","Confusion","Bureaucracy","The Aftermath");

// If user passed year, month and day variables in URL

if(isset($_GET['y']) && isset($_GET['m']) && isset($_GET['d'])) {

// Get year, month and day from URL

$usery = $_GET['y']; $userm = $_GET['m']; $userd = $_GET['d'];

// Use unix time to calculate day of year starting at zero

$userdate = mktime(0,0,0,$userm,$userd,$usery);

$ddays = ($userdate - mktime(0,0,0,1,1,$usery)) / 86400;

// Calculates the Discordian year, month and day

$dyear = ($usery) + 1166; $dmonth = $MONTHS[$dday/73]; $dday = $ddays%73 + 1;

}

// If user didn't pass year, get date from PHP function

else {

// Create array containing current Gregorian year, month, day,

// days of year starting at zero and whether or not year is a leap

$date = explode(" ",date('Y n j z L'));

// Calculates the Discordian year, month and day

$dyear = $date[0]+1166; $dmonth = $MONTHS[$date[3]/73]; $dday = $date[3]%73 +1;

}

// Determine the name of the day

if ($ddays === NULL) { $ddayname= $DAYS[$date[3]%5]; }

else { $ddayname= $DAYS[$ddays%5]; }

// Leap year exception for date from PHP

if ($ddays === NULL) {

if ($date[4]) {

if ($date[1] == 2 && $date[2] == 29) { echo "Today is St. Tib's Day, YOLD " . $dyear; }

if ($date[3] >= 60) { //offset day by one if leap year

$dday -= 1;

if($dday % 5 == 0) $ddayname = $DAYS[4];

else $ddayname = $DAYS[($dday%5)];

}

}

// Display Discordian date

echo "Today is " . $ddayname . ", " . $dmonth . " " . $dday . ", YOLD " . $dyear;

}

else { // Leap year exception for date from URL

if ($usery % 100 == 0) { // leap year exception for years that are divisible by one hundred

if ($usery % 400 == 0 && $userm == 2 && $userd == 29) { echo "Today is St. Tib's Day, YOLD " . $dyear; }

}

else if ($usery % 4 == 0) { // if the year is a leap year

if ($userm == 2 && $userd == 29) { echo "Today is St. Tib's Day, YOLD " . $dyear; }

elseif ($ddays >= 60) { // offset day by one if leap year

$dday -=1;

if($dday % 5 == 0) $ddayname = $DAYS[4];

else $ddayname=$DAYS[($dday%5-1)];

echo "Today is " . $ddayname . ", " . $dmonth . " " . $dday . ", YOLD " . $dyear;

}

else { echo "Today is " . $ddayname . ", " . $dmonth . " " . $dday . ", YOLD " . $dyear; }

}

// Display Discordian date

else { echo "Today is " . $ddayname . ", " . $dmonth . " " . $dday . ", YOLD " . $dyear; }

}

?>

</lang>

Output:<pre>ddate.php #23 November 2011

Today is Boomtime, The Aftermath 35, YOLD 3177

ddate.php?y=2012&m=2&y=28

Today is Prickle-Prickle, Chaos 59, YOLD 3178

ddate.php?y=2012&m=2&y=29

Today is St. Tib's Day, YOLD 3178

ddate.php?y=2012&m=3&y=1

Today is Setting Orange, Chaos 60, YOLD 3178