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"deserialize" : function(str){...},
"urldecode" : function(str) {...}
Creating Date Objects
CHAPTER 8 ■ EDITING THE CALENDAR WITH AJAX AND JQUERY
Because only events created for the month being displayed should be added to the calendar, you need to
determine what month and year is being displayed, as well as the month and year that the event occurs.
■ Note For this step you’ll take advantage of JavaScript’s built-in Date object, which provides methods to simplify
many date-related operations. For a full explanation of all available methods associated with the Date object, visit
http://w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp.
Modifying the Calendar Class with an ID
To generate a Date object for the currently displayed month, you need to add an ID to the h2 element
that displays the month above the calendar. To ensure cross-browser compatibility, modify the
buildCalendar() method in the Calendar class with the following bold code:
public function buildCalendar()
{
/*
* Determine the calendar month and create an array of
* weekday abbreviations to label the calendar columns
*/
$cal_month = date('F Y', strtotime($this->_useDate));
$cal_id = date('Y-m', strtotime($this->_useDate));
$weekdays = array('Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue',
'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat');
}
/*
* Add a header to the calendar markup
*/
$html = "\n\t$cal_month";
for ( $d=0, $labels=NULL; $d