NAME HTML::CalendarMonthSimple - Perl Module for Generating HTML Calendars SYNOPSIS use HTML::CalendarMonthSimple; $cal = new HTML::CalendarMonthSimple('year'=>2001,'month'=>2); $cal->width('50%'); $cal->border(10); $cal->header('Text at the top of the Grid'); $cal->setcontent(14,"Valentine's Day"); $cal->setdatehref(14, 'http://www.lovers.com/'); $cal->addcontent(14,"
Don't forget to buy flowers."); $cal->addcontent(13,"Thirteenth day of the month"); $cal->bgcolor('pink'); print $cal->as_HTML; DESCRIPTION HTML::CalendarMonthSimple is a Perl module for generating, manipulating, and printing a HTML calendar grid for a specified month. It is intended as a faster and easier-to-use alternative to HTML::CalendarMonth. This module requires the Date::Calc module, which is available from CPAN if you don't already have it. INTERFACE METHODS new(ARGUMENTS) Naturally, new() returns a newly constructed calendar object. Recognized arguments are 'year' and 'month', to specify which month's calendar will be used. If either is omitted, the current value is used. An important note is that the month and the year are NOT the standard C or Perl -- use a month in the range 1-12 and a real year, e.g. 2001. # Examples: # Create a calendar for this month. $cal = new HTML::CalendarMonthSimple(); # One for a specific month/year $cal = new HTML::CalendarMonthSimple('month'=>2,'year=>2000); # One for "the current month" in 1997 $cal = new HTML::CalendarMonthSimple('year'=>1997); setcontent(DATE,STRING) addcontent(DATE,STRING) getcontent(DATE) These methods are used to control the content of date cells within the calendar grid. # Examples: # The cell for the 15th of the month will now say something. $cal->setcontent(15,"An Important Event!"); # Later down the program, we want the content to be boldfaced. $foo = "" . $cal->getcontent(15) . ""; $cal->setcontent(15,$foo); # Or we could get extra spiffy: $cal->setcontent(15,"" . $cal->getcontent(15) . ""); # Example: # addcontent() does not clober existing content. # Also, if you setcontent() to '', you've deleted the content. $cal->setcontent(16,''); $cal->addcontent(16,"
Hello World
"); $cal->addcontent(16,"Hello Again
"); print $cal->getcontent(16); # Prints 2 sentences setdatehref(DATE,URL_STRING) getdatehref(DATE) These methods are used to control the content of date cells within the calendar grid. # Example: # The date number in the cell for the 15th of the month will # be a link to the sourceforge website $cal->setdatehref(15,"http://sourceforge.net/"); # Example: # You want to add to an URL $cal->setdatehref(15, $getdatehref(15)."projects/perl/"); as_HTML() This method returns a string containing the HTML table for the month. # Example: print $cal->as_HTML(); It's okay to continue modifying the calendar after calling as_HTML(). My guess is that you'd want to call as_HTML() again to print the further-modified calendar, but that's your business... year() month() monthname() These methods simply return the year/month of the calendar. monthname() returns the text name of the month, e.g. "December". border([INTEGER]) This specifies the value of the border attribute to the tag for each
day's cell. This controls how text will be centered/aligned within the
cells.
Any value can be used, if you think the web browser will find it
interesting. Some useful alignments are: left, right, center, top, and
bottom,
By default, cells are aligned to the left.
header([STRING])
By default, the current month and year are displayed at the top of the
calendar grid. This is called the "header".
The header() method allows you to set the header to whatever you like.
If no new header is specified, the current header is returned.
If the header is set to an empty string, then no header will be printed
at all. (No, you won't be stuck with a big empty cell!)
# Example:
# Set the month/year header to something snazzy.
my($y,$m) = ( $cal->year() , $cal->monthname() );
$cal->header(" |