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INFORMATION FOR DEVELOPERS
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Once the Date API is installed, all functions in the API are available to be used
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anywhere by any module. If the Date Timezone module is installed, the system site
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timezone selector and the user timezone selectors are overwritten to allow the
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selection of timezone names instead of offsets. Proper timezone conversion
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requires knowledge of those timezone names, something that is not currently
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available in Drupal core, and the change in selectors makes it possible to track it.
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In most cases, you should enable the Date Timezone module any time you use the
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Date API to be able to set the site and user timezone names. It is not enabled by
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default in case another module is setting timezone names in the database.
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The API uses the PHP 5.2 date functions to create and manipulate dates, and
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contains an option module that will emulate those functions in earlier versions
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of PHP.
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If you are using PHP 4 or PHP 5.0 or 5.1, native date handling won't work right.
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Install the Date_PHP4 module to enable wrapper functions so this code will work
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in old PHP versions.
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Example, the following will create a date for the local value in one
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timezone, adjust it to a different timezone, then return the offset in seconds
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in the new timezone for the input date; The offset will be adjusted for both
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the timezone difference and daylight savings time, if necessary:
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$date = date_create('2007-03-11 02:00:00', timezone_open('America/Chicago'));
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$chicago_time = date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i');
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print 'At '. $chicago_time .' in Chicago, the timezone offset in seconds
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was '. date_offset_get($date);
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date_timezone_set($date, timezone_open('Europe/Berlin');
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$berlin_time = date_format($date, 'Y-m-d H:i');
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print 'It was '. $berlin_time .' in Berlin when it
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was '. $chicago_time .' in Chicago.';
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print 'At that time in Berlin, the timezone offset in seconds was
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'. date_offset_get($date);
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A helper function is available, date_make_date($string, $timezone, $type),
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where $string is a unixtimestamp, an ISO date, or a string like YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS,
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$timezone is the name of the timezone this date is in, and $type is the type
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of date it is (DATE_UNIX, DATE_ISO, or DATE_DATETIME). It create and return
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a date object set to the right date and timezone.
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Simpletest tests for these functions are included in the package.
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Available functions include the following (more documentation is provided in
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the files):
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Date PHP4 Module
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PHP 4 substitutions for the PHP 5 date functions are supplied. Use the PHP 5
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functions in your code as they would normally be used and the PHP 4
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alternatives will be automatically be substituted in when needed.
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You cannot do everything with these functions that can be done in PHP 5, but
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you can create dates, find timezone offsets, and format the results.
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Timezone handling uses native PHP 5 functions when available and degrades
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automatically for PHP 4 to use substitutions like those
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provided in previous versions of the Date and Event modules.
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Read the doxygen documentation in this module for more information
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about using the functions in ways that will work in PHP 4.
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Simpletest tests for the PHP 4 equivalent functions are included in the package.
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The following functions are emulated in PHP4:
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date_create()
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date_date_set()
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date_format()
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date_offset_get()
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date_timezone_set()
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timezone_abbreviations_list()
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timezone_identifiers_list()
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timezone_offset_get()
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timezone_open()
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Preconfigured arrays
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Both translated and untranslated values are available. The date_week_days_ordered()
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function will shift an array of week day names so it starts with the site's
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first day of the week, otherwise the weekday names start with Sunday as the first
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value, the expected order for many php and sql functions.
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date_month_names();
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date_month_names_abbr();
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date_month_names_untranslated();
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date_week_days();
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date_week_days_abbr();
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date_week_days_untranslated();
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date_week_days_ordered();
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date_years();
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date_hours();
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date_minutes();
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date_seconds();
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date_timezone_names();
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date_ampm();
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Miscellaneous date manipulation functions
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Pre-defined constants and functions that will handle pre-1970 and post-2038
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dates in both PHP 4 and PHP 5, in any OS. Dates can be converted from one
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type to another and date parts can be extracted from any date type.
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DATE_DATETIME
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DATE_ISO
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DATE_UNIX
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DATE_ARRAY
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DATE_OBJECT
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DATE_ICAL
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date_convert()
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date_is_valid();
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date_part_is_valid();
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date_part_extract();
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Date calculation and navigation
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date_difference() will find the time difference between any two days, measured
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in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, weeks, or years.
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date_days_in_month();
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date_days_in_year();
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date_weeks_in_year();
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date_last_day_of_month();
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date_day_of_week();
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date_day_of_week_name();
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date_difference();
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Date regex and format helpers
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Pre-defined constants, an array of date format strings and their
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equivalent regex strings.
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DATE_REGEX_LOOSE is a very loose regex that will pull date parts out
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of an ISO date with or without separators, using either 'T' or a space
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to separate date and time, and with or without time.
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date_format_date() is similar to format_date(), except it takes a
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date object instead of a timestamp as the first parameter.
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DATE_FORMAT_ISO
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DATE_FORMAT_DATETIME
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DATE_FORMAT_UNIX
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DATE_FORMAT_ICAL
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DATE_REGEX_ISO
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DATE_REGEX_DATETIME
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DATE_REGEX_LOOSE
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date_format_date();
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date_t()
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date_short_formats();
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date_medium_formats();
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date_long_formats();
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date_format_patterns();
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Standardized ical parser and creator
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The iCal parser is found in date_api_ical.inc, which is not included by default.
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Include that file if you want to use these functions:
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Complete rewrite of ical imports to parse vevents, vlocations, valarms,
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and all kinds of timezone options and repeat rules for ical imports.
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The function now sticks to parsing the ical into an array that can be used
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in various ways. It no longer trys to convert timezones while parsing,
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instead a date_ical_date_format() function is provided that can be used to
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convert from the ical timezone to whatever timezone is desired in the
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results. Repeat rules are parsed into an array which other modules can
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manipulate however they like to create additional events from the results.
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date_ical_export();
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date_ical_import();
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date_ical_date_format();
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Helpers for portable date SQL
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The SQL functions are found in date_api_sql.inc, which is not included by default.
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Include that file if you want to use these functions:
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date_sql();
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date_server_zone_adj();
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date_sql_concat();
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date_sql_pad();
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Date forms and validators
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Reusable, configurable, self-validating FAPI date elements are found in
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date_api_elements.inc, which is not included by default. Include it
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if you want to use these elements. To use them, create a form element
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and set the '#type' to one of the following:
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date_select
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The date_select element will create a collection of form elements, with a
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separate select or textfield for each date part. The whole collection will
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get re-formatted back into a date value of the requested type during validation.
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date_text
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The date_text element will create a textfield that can contain a whole
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date or any part of a date as text. The user input value will be re-formatted
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back into a date value of the requested type during validation.
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date_timezone
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The date_timezone element will create a drop-down selector to pick a
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timezone name.
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The custom date elements require a few other pieces of information to work
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correctly, like #date_format and #date_type. See the internal documentation
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for more information.
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Date Popup Module
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A new module is included in the package that will enable a popup jQuery
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calendar date picker and timepicker in date and time fields.
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It is implemented as a custom form element, so set '#type' to 'date_popup'
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to use this element. See the internal documentation for more information.
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Date Repeat API
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An API for repeating dates is available if installed. It can be used by
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other modules to create a form element that will allow users to select
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repeat rules and store those selections in an iCal RRULE string, and a
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calculation function that will parse the RRULE and return an array of dates
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that match those rules. The API is implemented in the Date module as a
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new date widget if the Date Repeat API is installed.
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Install file for dependent modules
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The following code is an example of what should go in the .install file for
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any module that uses the new Date API. This is needed to be sure the system
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is not using an earlier version of the API that didn't include all these new
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features. Testing for version '5.2' will pick up any version on or after the
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change to the new API.
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/**
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* Implementation of hook_requirements().
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*/
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function calendar_requirements($phase) {
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$requirements = array();
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$t = get_t();
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// This is the minimum required version for the Date API so that it will
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work with this module.
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$required_version = 5.2;
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// Make sure the matching version of date_api is installed.
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// Use info instead of an error at install time since the problem may
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// just be that they were installed in the wrong order.
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switch ($phase) {
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case 'runtime':
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if (variable_get('date_api_version', 0) < $required_version) {
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$requirements['calendar_api_version'] = array(
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'title' => $t('Calendar requirements'),
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'value' => $t('The Calendar module requires a more current version
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of the Date API. Please check for a newer version.'),
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'severity' => REQUIREMENT_ERROR,
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);
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}
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break;
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case 'install':
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if (variable_get('date_api_version', 0) < $required_version) {
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$requirements['calendar_api_version'] = array(
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'title' => $t('Calendar requirements'),
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'value' => $t('The Calendar module requires the latest version
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of the Date API, be sure you are installing the latest versions
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of both modules.'),
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'severity' => REQUIREMENT_INFO,
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);
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}
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break;
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}
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return $requirements;
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}
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/**
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* Implementation of hook_install().
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*/
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function calendar_install() {
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// Make sure this module loads after date_api.
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db_query("UPDATE {system} SET weight = 1 WHERE name = 'calendar'");
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}
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/**
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* Implementation of hook_update().
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*/
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function calendar_update_5000() {
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$ret = array();
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$ret[] = update_sql("UPDATE {system} SET weight = 1 WHERE name = 'calendar'");
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return $ret;
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}
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