Nov
27
Okay, technically if something's "undiscovered", no one knows about it...and it's impossible for something in a programming language to be undiscovered because for it to exist, someone has to know about it...in fact, a lot of someones have to know about it. Regardless...
I was recently reading about how difficult it was for someone to create a DATE field in an Atom feed (they were creating a home-brew blog/cms with Python). Well, accidentally while researching what the php.ini file directives (found in PHP 5.2.0+, but available since 5.0.0 according to Zend) for the date.sunset_zenith and date.sunrise_zenith were for. I still didn't entirely figure it out, but I can still set the latitude and longitude correctly. However, while looking for this information, I found that PHP apparently has CONST values for many abstract date formats...all thanks to W3Schools!
Constants: ATOM, DATE_COOKIE, DATE_ISO8601, DATE_RFC821, DATE_RFC850, DATE_RFC1036, DATE_RFC1123, DATE_RFC2822, DATE_RSS, and DATE_W3C
Now, it is very true that PHP's date functions are extremely thorough and easy to use, as well as to convert to/from. However, if you have constant values, why the heck not use them?!
I was recently reading about how difficult it was for someone to create a DATE field in an Atom feed (they were creating a home-brew blog/cms with Python). Well, accidentally while researching what the php.ini file directives (found in PHP 5.2.0+, but available since 5.0.0 according to Zend) for the date.sunset_zenith and date.sunrise_zenith were for. I still didn't entirely figure it out, but I can still set the latitude and longitude correctly. However, while looking for this information, I found that PHP apparently has CONST values for many abstract date formats...all thanks to W3Schools!
Constants: ATOM, DATE_COOKIE, DATE_ISO8601, DATE_RFC821, DATE_RFC850, DATE_RFC1036, DATE_RFC1123, DATE_RFC2822, DATE_RSS, and DATE_W3C
Now, it is very true that PHP's date functions are extremely thorough and easy to use, as well as to convert to/from. However, if you have constant values, why the heck not use them?!
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