Introduction

Introduction

Date_Holidays is a driver-based holiday calculation package. It helps you check whether a specific date is a holiday in a specific country or religion. Furthermore you can calculate the date of any holiday supported in the driver for the country, region or religion.

Currently the following drivers are supported:

• Austria

• Christian, calculates Christian holidays (used as base driver for other drivers)

• Denmark

• England & Wales

• Germany, calculates German holidays

• Ireland, calculates Irish holidays

• Jewish, calculates Jewish holidays

• The Netherlands

• Norway

• Slovenia

• Sweden, calculates Swedish holidays

• USA, calculates holidays in the United States of America

• UNO, calculates UNO (United Nations Organization) holidays

• Composite, a driver that is used to combine any number of the other drivers so they can be queried at once.

If you have written a custom driver for Date_Holidays that could be included in the distribution, please contact the package maintainers or open a feature request and attach a patch in the bug tracking tool.

Date_Holidays supports I18N by storing the names of the different holidays in INI files for each language. These files will be stored in the data directory of your PEAR installation.