What are some common methods for creating a calendar in PHP without using MySQL?

When creating a calendar in PHP without using MySQL, one common method is to generate the calendar grid based on the current month and year. This can be achieved by using PHP date functions to determine the number of days in the month, the day of the week the month starts on, and then displaying the days in a grid format. 

<?php
// Get current month and year
$month = date('n');
$year = date('Y');

// Get the number of days in the month
$days_in_month = cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, $month, $year);

// Get the day of the week the month starts on
$first_day = date('w', mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 1, $year));

// Create calendar grid
echo "<table>";
echo "<tr><th>Sun</th><th>Mon</th><th>Tue</th><th>Wed</th><th>Thu</th><th>Fri</th><th>Sat</th></tr>";
echo "<tr>";
for ($i = 0; $i < $first_day; $i++) {
    echo "<td></td>";
}
for ($day = 1; $day <= $days_in_month; $day++) {
    echo "<td>$day</td>";
    if (($first_day + $day) % 7 == 0) {
        echo "</tr><tr>";
    }
}
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>

Keywords

PHP calendar date functions HTML CSS

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