My browser homepage is set to a localhost php calendar that is connected to a database (to display birthdays, events, reminders, data of all sorts). One of the dates I originally found difficult to calculate was Easter. One of the definitions I found was, “Easter is observed on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or following the spring equinox (March 21). Easter is a ‘movable’ feast which can occur as early as March 22 or as late as April 25.”<\/p>\n
So, the logic is:
\ncalculate the full moon on or after March 21
\nthen find the next Sunday.<\/p>\n
Easy right?<\/p>\n
Fast forward to a long weekend where I just wanted something to play with (to take my mind off troubles). Did some research and came across some interesting ways of calculating a full moon. Some good, some not so good. Finally decided to go with a class I found at: http:\/\/www.phpclasses.org\/package\/5975-PHP-Calculate-the-phase-of-the-Moon-for-a-given-date.html<\/a><\/p>\n Note: For Easter you only need set, get_next_newmoon, and get_next_fullmoon methods. Also, because get_next_fullmoon calls get_next_newmoon (which means the full moon is based on the new moon), errors can occur if you specify a date after the new moon for a given month. I encountered this issue when I originally used ‘year-04-01’ in the conditional (reared its ugly head by saying the next full moon was in May).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I did most of that and then decided to go with using an array, because I suddenly decided it was not worth the effort. The next day, I decided to finish it. I parsed $easter (exploded) for comparison with displayed month and date, so my calendar would display Easter on the correct date. I compared it to the array of dates for Easter till 2022. Worked up to that point.<\/p>\n Note: My coding is not bullet proof. Use at your own risk. Also, as with many languages, there are many ways to do the same thing in PHP. I\u2019m not saying I did it the best or most efficient way, just that it worked for me. If it helps you, all the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My browser homepage is set to a localhost php calendar that is connected to a database (to display birthdays, events, reminders, data of all sorts). One of the dates I originally found difficult to calculate was Easter. One of the … Continue reading <?php
\ninclude 'classes\/moonPhase.class.php';<\/code><\/p>\n$moon = new moon();
\n$moon->set(\"date\", date(\"$year_to_display-03-01\"));
\n\/\/ year_to_display is calculated in my calendar - you can hardcode or calc
\n$nextFullMoon = $moon->get_next_fullmoon();<\/code><\/p>\nif(strtotime($nextFullMoon) < strtotime(\"$year_to_display-03-21\")){
\n\/\/ might need to change to the 22nd
\n$moon->set(\"date\", date(\"$year_to_display-03-22\"));
\n\/\/ get next full moon
\n$nextFullMoon = $moon->get_next_fullmoon();
\n}
\n$easter = date(\"m-d-Y\", strtotime(\"next Sunday\", strtotime($nextFullMoon)));
\n\/\/ format to display in format I prefer
\necho $easter;
\n?><\/code><\/p>\n