UseCase: Admin assigns tasks to People. Before we assign them we can see their tasks in a gantt chart. According to the task assign date and deadline, conflict days (overlap days) are generated between tasks.
I wrote this function to get overlapping dates between two dates. But now I need to get non overlapping days between two dates, below is the function I wrote.
$tasks = Assign_review_tasks::where('assigned_to', $employee)
->where('is_active', \Constants::$REVIEW_ACTIVE)
->whereNotNull('permit_id')->get();
$obj['task'] = count($tasks);
// count($tasks));
if (count($tasks) > 0) {
if (count($tasks) > 1) {
$start_one = $tasks[count($tasks) - 1]->start_date;
$end_one = $tasks[count($tasks) - 1]->end_date;
$end_two = $tasks[count($tasks) - 2]->end_date;
$start_two = $tasks[count($tasks) - 2]->start_date;
if ($start_one <= $end_two && $end_one >= $start_two) { //If the dates overlap
$obj['day'] = Carbon::parse(min($end_one, $end_two))->diff(Carbon::parse(max($start_two, $start_one)))->days + 1; //return how many days overlap
} else {
$obj['day'] = 0;
}
// $arr[] = $obj;
} else {
$obj['day'] = 0;
}
} else {
$obj['day'] = 0;
}
$arr[] = $obj;
start_date and end_date are taken from database,
I tried modifying it to,
(Carbon::parse((min($end_one, $end_two))->add(Carbon::parse(max($start_two, $start_one))))->days)->diff(Carbon::parse(min($end_one, $end_two))->diff(Carbon::parse(max($start_two, $start_one)))->days + 1);
But it didn't work, in simple terms this is what I want,
Non conflicting days = (end1-start1 + end2-start2)- Current overlapping days
I'm having trouble translate this expression . Could you help me? Thanks in advance
before trying to reimplement complex stuff I recommend you take a look at enhanced-period for Carbon
composer require cmixin/enhanced-period
CarbonPeriod::diff macro method is what I think you're looking for:
use Carbon\CarbonPeriod;
use Cmixin\EnhancedPeriod;
CarbonPeriod::mixin(EnhancedPeriod::class);
$a = CarbonPeriod::create('2018-01-01', '2018-01-31');
$b = CarbonPeriod::create('2018-02-10', '2018-02-20');
$c = CarbonPeriod::create('2018-02-11', '2018-03-31');
$current = CarbonPeriod::create('2018-01-20', '2018-03-15');
foreach ($current->diff($a, $b, $c) as $period) {
foreach ($period as $day) {
echo $day . "\n";
}
}
This will output all the days that are in $current but not in any of the other periods. (E.g. non-conflicting days)
I was going to advice some fellow Perl developers against eval-ing formulas as a string each time the formula is calculated, and instead eval - once - functions for each formula. Thus, instead of calling eval thousands of times, a function is called. I.e:
Instead of:
sub calc_formulas_naive
{
my %formulas;
$formulas{formula_a} = '$ref->{metric_a} + $ref->{metric_b} * $ref->{metric_c} - 100 * $ref->{metric_c} / 1000 + 33.33 * $ref->{metric_d}';
$formulas{formula_b} = '$ref->{metric_a} * $ref->{metric_c} - 33';
$formulas{formula_c} = '$ref->{metric_a} * $ref->{metric_c} - 33 + 0.265 * ($ref->{metric_d} / $ref->{metric_c}) - $ref->{metric_a} + $ref->{metric_e} * ($ref->{metric_d} + 1)';
my $ref = shift #_;
my $form_a_val = eval $formulas{formula_a};
my $form_b_val = eval $formulas{formula_b};
my $form_c_val = eval $formulas{formula_c};
}
Use:
my %formulas_adv;
sub prep_formulas_adv # called only once prior to parsing!
{
my $sub = 'sub { my $ref = shift #_; my $result = $ref->{metric_a} + $ref->{metric_b} * $ref->{metric_c} - 100 * $ref->{metric_c} / 1000 + 33.33 * $ref->{metric_d}; return $result; }';
$formulas_adv{formula_a} = eval $sub;
$sub = 'sub { my $ref = shift #_; my $result = $ref->{metric_a} * $ref->{metric_c} - 33; return $result; }';
$formulas_adv{formula_b} = eval $sub;
$sub = 'sub { my $ref = shift #_; my $result = $ref->{metric_a} * $ref->{metric_c} - 33 + 0.265 * ($ref->{metric_d} / $ref->{metric_c}) - $ref->{metric_a} + $ref->{metric_e} * ($ref->{metric_d} + 1); return $result; }';
$formulas_adv{formula_c} = eval $sub;
}
sub calc_formulas_advanced
{
my $ref = shift #_;
my $form_a_val = $formulas_adv{formula_a}($ref);
my $form_b_val = $formulas_adv{formula_b}($ref);
my $form_c_val = $formulas_adv{formula_c}($ref);
}
Now the question itself. I was totally sure that 2nd approach gives noticeable advantage when processing big amounts of data. I haven't had access to my old projects, but I also was quite sure I saw the 2nd approach working faster than the 1st. After all, Perl doesn't have to compile anything on-the-run in this case.
But before giving the advice, I wrote a small artificial example with 5K text files populated with rand generated metrics, ran both implementations, and... I don't observe any advantage of using unnamed functions over strings evaluation.
What's the matter? Was I hallucinating all the time, when I thought that eval is less effective than a function?
I'm building a booking form for a moving business that uses a calendar combined with a start and end time. I built the timepicker with Formidable Pro, and it allows me to check "unique" on time fields which automatically removes them on the selected date. However it doesn't automatically remove the times from within the range between start and end times (ie: if someone chooses to rent a truck from 1am-3am I need 1am,2am,and 3am to be removed from future options but right now it only removes 1am and 3am) . I need to write ajax to remove the in-between times from the options. I'm not sure where to begin. This is the current ajax_time_ options function. Any push in the right direction would be appreciated.
function ajax_time_options(){
global $frmpro_settings, $frmdb, $wpdb;
//posted vars = $time_field, $date_field, $step, $start, $end, $date, $clock
extract($_POST);
$time_key = str_replace('field_', '', $time_field);
$date_key = str_replace('field_', '', $date_field);
if (!preg_match('/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/', trim($date)))
$date = FrmProAppHelper::convert_date($date, $frmpro_settings->date_format, 'Y-m-d');
$date_entries = FrmEntryMeta::getEntryIds("fi.field_key='$date_key' and meta_value='$date'");
$opts = array('' => '');
$time = strtotime($start);
$end = strtotime($end);
$step = explode(':', $step);
$step = (isset($step[1])) ? ($step[0] * 3600 + $step[1] * 60) : ($step[0] * 60);
$format = ($clock) ? 'H:i' : 'h:i A';
while($time <= $end){
$opts[date($format, $time)] = date($format, $time);
$time += $step;
}
if($date_entries and !empty($date_entries)){
$used_times = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT meta_value FROM $frmdb->entry_metas it LEFT JOIN $frmdb->fields fi ON (it.field_id = fi.id) WHERE fi.field_key='$time_key' and it.item_id in (". implode(',', $date_entries).")");
if($used_times and !empty($used_times)){
$number_allowed = apply_filters('frm_allowed_time_count', 1, $time_key, $date_key);
$count = array();
foreach($used_times as $used){
if(!isset($opts[$used]))
continue;
if(!isset($count[$used]))
$count[$used] = 0;
$count[$used]++;
if((int)$count[$used] >= $number_allowed)
unset($opts[$used]);
}
unset($count);
}
}
echo json_encode($opts);
die();
}
I would like to display a time format like twitter and FB (Posted 3 hours ago, Posted 2 minutes ago and so on...)
I've tried this piece of code without success :
function format_interval($timestamp, $granularity = 2) {
$units = array('1 year|#count years' => 31536000, '1 week|#count weeks' => 604800, '1 day|#count days' => 86400, '1 hour|#count hours' => 3600, '1 min|#count min' => 60, '1 sec|#count sec' => 1);
$output = '';
foreach ($units as $key => $value) {
$key = explode('|', $key);
if ($timestamp >= $value) {
$floor = floor($timestamp / $value);
$output .= ($output ? ' ' : '') . ($floor == 1 ? $key[0] : str_replace('#count', $floor, $key[1]));
$timestamp %= $value;
$granularity--;
}
if ($granularity == 0) {
break;
}
}
I use this function with a callback into another function like : $this->format_interval(); and pass it to my View
My current format date is : 2012-07-26 09:31:pm and already stored in my DB
Any help will be very appreciated!
The Date Helper's timespan() method just does that:
The most common purpose for this function is to show how much time has elapsed from some point in time in the past to now.
Given a timestamp, it will show how much time has elapsed in this format:
1 Year, 10 Months, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 10 Hours, 16 Minutes
So, in your example, all you need to do is convert your date to a timestamp and do something like this:
$post_date = '13436714242';
$now = time();
// will echo "2 hours ago" (at the time of this post)
echo timespan($post_date, $now) . ' ago';
Try something like this in a my_date_helper.php file (source: Codeigniter Forums):
<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
if( ! function_exists('relative_time'))
{
function relative_time($datetime)
{
$CI =& get_instance();
$CI->lang->load('date');
if(!is_numeric($datetime))
{
$val = explode(" ",$datetime);
$date = explode("-",$val[0]);
$time = explode(":",$val[1]);
$datetime = mktime($time[0],$time[1],$time[2],$date[1],$date[2],$date[0]);
}
$difference = time() - $datetime;
$periods = array("second", "minute", "hour", "day", "week", "month", "year", "decade");
$lengths = array("60","60","24","7","4.35","12","10");
if ($difference > 0)
{
$ending = $CI->lang->line('date_ago');
}
else
{
$difference = -$difference;
$ending = $CI->lang->line('date_to_go');
}
for($j = 0; $difference >= $lengths[$j]; $j++)
{
$difference /= $lengths[$j];
}
$difference = round($difference);
if($difference != 1)
{
$period = strtolower($CI->lang->line('date_'.$periods[$j].'s'));
} else {
$period = strtolower($CI->lang->line('date_'.$periods[$j]));
}
return "$difference $period $ending";
}
}
The format is a little different than the one you're using in your database (why do you mark times with pm/am rather than just use 24 hour times and convert for the frontend?). Either way, shouldn't take much work to get it working.
I had a function that solved this like this:
$int_diff = (time() - $int_time);
$str_this_year = date('Y-01-01', $int_time);
$str_weekday = t('time_weekday_'.strtolower(date('l', $int_time)));
$str_month = t('time_month_'.strtolower(date('F', $int_time)));
$arr_time_formats = array( '-90 seconds' => t('time_a_minute_at_most'),
'-45 minutes' => t('time_minutes_ago', ceil($int_diff / (60))),
'-70 minutes' => t('time_an_hour_at_most'),
'-8 hours' => t('time_hours_ago', ceil($int_diff / (60 * 60))),
'today' => t('time_hours_ago', ceil($int_diff / (60 * 60))),
'yesterday' => t('time_yesterday', date('H:i', $int_time)),
'-4 days' => t('time_week_ago', $str_weekday, date('H:i', $int_time)),
$str_this_year => t('time_date', date('j', $int_time), $str_month, date('H:i', $int_time)),
0 => t('time_date_year', date('j', $int_time), $str_month, date('Y', $int_time), date('H:i', $int_time)));
if ($boo_whole)
return $arr_time_formats[0];
foreach(array_keys($arr_time_formats) as $h)
if ($int_time >= strtotime($h))
return $arr_time_formats[$h];
Basicly t() is a function combined with $this->lang->line() and sprintf(). The idea here is to give keys that's runned through strtotime() till you reach the closest time, with 0 being the fallback.
This approach is really good since you can easy adjust the times with a nice overview. I could give more piece of the code, but it feels like doing too much of the work :) Basicly this is just the theory behind how you can do it.
<?php
$this->load->helper('date');
//client created date get from database
$date=$client_list->created_date;
// Declare timestamps
$last = new DateTime($date);
$now = new DateTime( date( 'Y-m-d h:i:s', time() )) ;
// Find difference
$interval = $last->diff($now);
// Store in variable to be used for calculation etc
$years = (int)$interval->format('%Y');
$months = (int)$interval->format('%m');
$days = (int)$interval->format('%d');
$hours = (int)$interval->format('%H');
$minutes = (int)$interval->format('%i');
// $now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
if($years > 0)
{
echo $years.' Years '.$months.' Months '.$days.' Days '. $hours.' Hours '.$minutes.' minutes ago.' ;
}
else if($months > 0)
{
echo $months.' Months '.$days.' Days '. $hours.' Hours '.$minutes.' minutes ago.' ;
}
else if($days > 0)
{
echo $days.' Days '.$hours.' Hours '.$minutes.' minutes ago.' ;
}
else if($hours > 0)
{
echo $hours.' Hours '.$minutes.' minutes ago.' ;
}
else
{
echo $minutes.' minutes ago.' ;
}
?>
Please post any smarty syntax to Get number of days between two dates from my database. i was to able to display all the other fields,but this date field with number of days not working as the way i was expected.Please let me know is there any way to get this solution without any smarty additional plugins.
Smarty does not include any specific functions for doing date math operations. They have the date_format for timestamps, but otherwise you'd either have to write your own days_diff plugin, find one online, or do the date math in PHP and assign to a new variable in Smarty.
Here is my function for this problem:
/*
* Smarty plugin
* -------------------------------------------------------------
* Type: function
* Name: date_diff
* Author: Rafał Pawlukiewicz
* Purpose: factor difference between two dates in days, weeks, or years
* Input: d1 = "mm/dd/yyyy" or "yyyy/mm/dd" or "yyyy-mm-dd"
* d2 = "mm/dd/yyyy" or "yyyy/mm/dd" or "yyyy-mm-dd" or $smarty.now
* assign = name of variable to assign difference to
* interval = "days" (default), "weeks", "years"
* Examples: {date_diff d1="2020-01-20"}
* Examples: {date_diff d1="2020-01-20" d2=2020-02-10 interval="weeks"}
* Examples: {date_diff d1="2020-01-20" d2=2020-02-10 assign="variable_diff"} result: {$variable_diff}
* -------------------------------------------------------------
*/
function smarty_function_date_diff($params, &$smarty)
{
$d1 = isset($params['d1']) ? $params['d1'] : date('Y-m-d');
$d2 = isset($params['d2']) ? $params['d2'] : date('Y-m-d');
$assign_name = isset($params['assign']) ? $params['assign'] : '';
$date1 = strtotime($d1);
$date2 = strtotime($d2);
// use current for empty string
if (! $date1) {
$date1 = date('Y-m-d');
}
if (! $date2) {
$date2 = date('Y-m-d');
}
$interval = isset($params['interval']) ? $params['interval'] : 'days';
// diff in days
$diff = ($date2 - $date1) / 60 / 60 / 24;
if ($interval === "weeks") {
$diff /= 7;
}
elseif ($interval === "years") {
$diff /= 365.25;
}
$diff = floor($diff);
if ($assign_name) {
$smarty->assign($assign_name, $diff);
}
else {
return $diff;
}
}