Al - yes, I remember that email of yours (I was going to mention it in my
previous response). The problem was that I thought the proposal was just a
little too complex - I couldn't understand it (though I probably should have
tried harder). I didn't understand, for instance, why "month" was being
changed to "monthdate". (Though I should have asked about that at the
time...)
Here's a more general question, and this might apply to both proposals: I
can see the need for "2nd Wednesday of every month", but not for "2nd
Wednesday of every 3rd month" - I just haven't heard of something being
scheduled that way. Are there such things? Of course, there are events that
happen every *12th* month, i.e. once a year, like Thanksgiving, which is on
the 4th Thursday of every November (I had to look that one up). But I don't
know if it's worth creating that functionality just to support a few
national holidays - and this being a semantic technology, surely there's a
way to get holiday information from an outside data source, if it's needed?
-Yaron
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Al Hooton <a...@hootons.org> wrote:
> Back in January I constructed a complete proposal for how to expose this
> kind of functional extension to #set_recurring_events. I got no
> response. Subsequently I DM'd Markus to see if he had any thoughts, and
> also got no response. Here is my original proposal:
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1263579979.8239.34.camel%40ramp&forum_name=semediawiki-devel
>
> Please pardon this typo in the original email: "decated" ->
> "deprecated".
>
> It's good to see I'm not the only person who thinks this is important.
> I was within a few weeks of coding this up just for myself, since nobody
> else seemed interested.
>
> I'm still open to any/all thoughts about my proposed way of exposing the
> functionality.
>
> -Al
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 22:27 -0500, Yaron Koren wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > No, this one's an actual problem. :) The 'xofmonth' concept sounds
> > interesting (though there might be a nicer name than that) - but what
> > would a call to #set_recurring_event look like, using 'xofmonth'?
> >
> >
> > -Yaron
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:51 PM, David Raison <da...@hackerspace.lu>
> > wrote:
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> > Hi again,
> >
> > I hope this is not going to turn out to be another Pebkac for
> > me ;)
> >
> > Have you foreseen the possibility of tweaking the recurring
> > events parser to not parse monthly
> > recurring events by date (i.e. each 6th of a month) but by
> > days of the week (i.e. every first
> > Saturday of a month)?
> >
> > Actually, there are two possibilities to do this (or let's
> > rather say, two that I thought of, not
> > being familiar with the SMWDataValueFactory). The first and,
> > IMHO simplest, being:
> >
> > Index: SMW_ParserExtensions.php
> >
> ===================================================================
> > - --- SMW_ParserExtensions.php (revision 63234)
> > +++ SMW_ParserExtensions.php (working copy)
> > @@ -416,6 +416,14 @@
> > $date_str =
> > "$cur_year-$cur_month-$cur_day $cur_time";
> > $cur_date =
> > SMWDataValueFactory::newTypeIDValue('_dat', $date_str);
> > $cur_date_jd =
> > $cur_date->getNumericValue();
> > + } elseif($unit == 'xofmonth') {
> > + $check_month =
> > $cur_date->getMonth();
> > + $cur_date_jd += 28 * $period;
> > + $cur_date =
> > SMWDataValueFactory::newTypeIDValue('_dat', $cur_date_jd);
> > + if ($cur_date->getMonth() !=
> > (($check_month + $period) % 12 )){
> > + $cur_date_jd += 7;
> > // add another week
> > + $cur_date =
> > SMWDataValueFactory::newTypeIDValue('_dat', $cur_date_jd);
> > + }
> > } else { // $unit == 'day' or 'week'
> > // assume 'day' if it's none of
> > the above
> > $cur_date_jd += ($unit ===
> > 'week') ? 7 * $period : $period;
> >
> >
> > Either there is no way to not have to calculate $cur_date
> > twice, or I'm just too tired to find it.
> > Here's the actual data: Setting [0] and Browsing [1]
> >
> > The other possibility would be to look up what day of the week
> > [date(N)] and in what quarter of the
> > month the $cur_day is [$cur_day ceil($cur_day / 7)] is and
> > then ask php for every "xth $dayOfWeek"
> > in the subsequent "$cur_month += $period".
> >
> > But that seems more complicated than method one.
> >
> > cheers,
> > D.
> >
> > [0]
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