Function to get the last day (saturday) of current week

/**
 * Function to get the last day (saturday) of current week
 *
 * @return string
 */
function get_week_end_date()
{
$format = 'M d, Y';

// if today is saturday, return today's date
if (date('N') === 7)
{
return date($format);
}
else
{
// return next saturday's date
return date($format, strtotime('next saturday'));
}
}

Get Days of the Week

This function can be used to get the days of the week:

function get_week_days()
{
    $timestamp = strtotime('monday this week');
    $week_days = array();
    for ($i = 1; $i <= 7; $i++)
    {
        $day = array();
        $day['name'] = strftime('%A', $timestamp);
        $day['short_name'] = strftime('%a', $timestamp);
        $week_days[$i] = $day;
        $timestamp = strtotime('+1 day', $timestamp);
    }

    return $week_days;
}


Output of this function will be:

Array
(
    [1] => Array
        (
            [name] => Monday
            [short_name] => Mon
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [name] => Tuesday
            [short_name] => Tue
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [name] => Wednesday
            [short_name] => Wed
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [name] => Thursday
            [short_name] => Thu
        )

    [5] => Array
        (
            [name] => Friday
            [short_name] => Fri
        )

    [6] => Array
        (
            [name] => Saturday
            [short_name] => Sat
        )

    [7] => Array
        (
            [name] => Sunday
            [short_name] => Sun
        )

)

Hope this function will be useful to list the days of the week somewhere in your projects.

Happy coding..:) 

Date Range Checking Using PHP

1)
/**
* Function to check if a date is within a date range
* Returns true if date falls within startDate and startDate
*
* @param timestamp $date
* @param timestamp $startDate
* @param timestamp $startDate
*
* @return boolean
*/
public function isDateInRange($date, $startDate, $endDate)
{
return (($date >= $startDate) && ($date <= $endDate));
}

2)

/**
* Function to check if a date range falls within another date range
*
* @param timestamp $startDate1 first date range startDate
* @param timestamp $endDate1 first date range endDate
* @param timestamp $startDate2 second date range startDate
* @param timestamp $endDate2 second date range endDate
*
* @return boolean
*/
public function isDateRangeInDateRange($startDate1, $endDate1, $startDate2, $endDate2)
{
return ($this->isDateInRange($startDate2, $startDate1, $endDate1) ||
$this->isDateInRange($endDate2, $startDate1, $endDate1));
}

Get First and Last Date of the Current Week - The MySql Way

First Day of the Week

SELECT DATE_ADD(current_date, INTERVAL(1-DAYOFWEEK(current_date)) DAY) FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK;

Last Day of the Week

SELECT DATE_ADD(current_date, INTERVAL(7-DAYOFWEEK(current_date)) DAY) LAST_DAY_OF_WEEK;

URL Rewriting

Found a really nice and simple article on URL rewriting using .htaccess. Thought of sharing it :)
Here is it:-
http://www.sicanstudios.com/how-to-remove-php-html-htm-extensions-with-htaccess/

How to check if script tags are entered in a field

jQuery.validator.addMethod("disableScript", function(text, element) {
return (text.match(/\<\bscript\b/i) || text.match(/\<\/\bscript\b/i))?false:true;
}, "Script tags are not allowed");

And how to use it?? It's very simple.

Just add this method to the list of rules to validate the particular input field.

Example:-

rules: {

first_name: {required: true, disableScript: true},

comment: {disableScript: true}

}

Note:
The JQuery validator plugin js file should be included in the page for this to work.

How to reset a form using JQuery

A little bit JQuery too..To reset the input field values of a form to its default values, the following code can be used. This is similar to using the reset button of HTML.

$("form")[0].reset();