Sunrise, Sunset (with php)

[sde]

I stumbled across some interesting functions last week.

date_sunrise()
date_sunset()

they return a unix timestamp of the sunrise and sunset in php5. kinda cool.

[teknomage1]

Not to be negative or anything, but sometimes I wish more of php's builtin functions were library functions with real namespaces rather than prefix namespaces (eg Date:sunrise vs date_sunrise or MySQL:query vs mysql_query)

[sde]

why? then it would be called java or .net

[teknomage1]

I just like languages with small cores and good library support that's all. PHP's core does what good libraries do, but it's a pretty big core.

[sde]

I think PHP has both. A good core and then lots of other libraries you can add. Maybe it's not organized in namespaces, but they do organize similar functions in the PHP manual for reference.

I think PHP would not be PHP if it you had to do things like include a datetime namespace and instanciate a time object.

[teknomage1]

I never said anything about objects! I was more thinking of the ways you add libraries in C or perl. But yeah php does have a sort of eclectic charm.

[sde]

oh my bad, i always associated namespaces with OO. it does have an addon library structure, but i suppose they are added per PHP installation vs at the application level.

[Admin]

that's neat

although i still run 4 cause i'm lame*



*lame = i dont want to break old scripts, hooray.

[sde]

hey matt!

i haven't upgraded yet because i'm afraid to break hosting customer's sites. one of these days i'm just going to have to give plenty of warning and just do it.

[DJMaze]

Perl alike ?

function use($classname)
{
    include($classname.'.php');
}

use('datetime');
datetime::sunrise()
datetime::sunset()

class datetime
{
    public static function sunrise()
    {
        return date_sunrise();
    }
    public static function sunset()
    {
        return date_sunset();
    }
}

[teknomage1]

The point isn't that I want to call it as library::function, it's just that the standard php namespace seems a little crowded sometimes. That's a neat trick though.

[ChefFrank]

These functions rock! I actually took some time to look up the underlying algorithms and, it's MUCH easier just to call this function. Now, if someone would come up with a function that could give moonrise and moonset . . . . THOSE calculations are freeky!!!!!

Frank

[dave-php]

Originally Posted by teknomage1

I never said anything about objects! I was more thinking of the ways you add libraries in C or perl. But yeah php does have a sort of eclectic charm.

Don't give in so easy !

Dave

[teknomage1]

Hehe, welcome, Dave.