RE: Recurring Events ? ex. 3rd thursday

[Emmet McGovern]

Thank You Charlie!  That works perfect.

-e

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:10 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Recurring Events ? ex. 3rd thursday

not thoroughly tested...

<cfscript>
        function getEveryNthDay(dow,nth,yy) {
                /**
                 * returns an array of dates containing every (nth) day of
week for
a given year
                 *
                 * @param dow   the day of the week to return
(integer...sunday = 1 /
saturday = 7)
                 * @param nth   every (nth) day of the week (integer...1-5
are valid
argument values)
                 * @param yy    the year to check
                 *
                 * @return an array of dates.
                 * @author Charlie Griefer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
                 * @version 1.0, February 14, 2006
                 */
                var containerArray = arrayNew(1);
                
                var mm                  = "";
                var dd                  = "";
                var startDate   = "";
                var dateFound   = 0;
                
                if (val(dow) LT 1 OR val(dow) GT 7) {
                        return false;
                }
                
                for (mm=1; mm LTE 12; mm=mm+1) {
                        dateFound = 0;
                        for (dd=1; dd LTE daysInMonth(createDate(yy, mm,
1)); dd=dd+1) {
                                startDate = createDate(yy, mm, dd);
                                if (dayOfWeek(startDate) EQ dow) {
                                        dateFound = dateFound + 1;
                                        if (dateFound EQ nth) {
                                                arrayAppend(containerArray,
startDate);
                                        }
                                }
                        }
                }
                
                return containerArray;
        }
</cfscript>

3rd friday of each month (tuesday = 6):
<br /><br />

<cfdump var="#getEveryNthDay(6, 3, 2006)#">


On 2/14/06, Emmet McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't seem to wrap my head around this.   Does anyone know how you loop
> through every third Thursday of the month in a year or every second
Tuesday
> and so on?
>
> Emmet
>
>
>
> 



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