BC or AD - a zend view helper

September 24, 2008

BC or AD - a zend view helper

Filed under: Database, Techie stuff — Daniel Pett @ 2:20 pm
Posted from The British Museum @ 51° 31' 08" N, 0° 07' 35" W

Apologies for the lack of posting on the blogs recently. I'm currently engaged in rebuilding the Scheme database to make it more usable and also more joined up. This is going to take a while and I'm using Zend Framework as the base. I think I should share some code and here's a view helper for changing negative integers to a BC date and positive integers to an AD date. The class is shown below:

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PHP:

<?php
class DEJP_View_Helper_ADBC
{
public function ADBC($string="", $suffix="BC", $prefix="AD")
{
if ($string <0) {
return abs($string). ' ' .$suffix;
//BC calendar dates are displayed with the BC as a suffix - eg 2600 BC
}
else
return $prefix.' '. abs($string);
//AD calendar dates are displayed with AD as a prefix - eg. AD 410
}
}
?>

And it would be used as such within your view script:

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PHP:

<?php echo $this->ADBC($table->field);?>

If I create anymore that might be useful, I'll add them.

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