Today is Wednesday, February 10, 2010.

Birthdays

1747 A. Yasuaki --1817
1775 Charles Lamb, English critic, poet, essayist
1868 William Allen White, American writer and journalist
1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist, "Dr. Zhivago" (Nobel 1958)
1890 Boris Pasternak
1893 Jimmy Durante, comedian
1893 Jimmy Durante
1898 Bertolt Brecht
1905 Lon Chaney, Jr.
1927 Leontyne Price
1930 Robert Wagner
1939 Roberta Flack
1950 Mark Spitz
1955 Greg Norman
1967 Laura Dern

Events

Alpha Aurigid meteor shower, radiant in Auriga
1720 Edmund Halley is appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French & Indian War
1870 City of Anaheim incorporated (first time).
1879 First electric arc light used (in California Theater).

That's all for today.

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CDAY PHP

What happened on this day in history? What happened on your birthday? Web-based CDAY, an almanac for web servers, reports events, birthdays, and holidays, and supports RSS (XML).

Webmasters: Install CDAY on your web site to add value and attract visitors. This might work especially well with original data for a specific subject (e.g. baseball).

Demonstration

See the embedded demonstration on the right-hand of the page. You may also see a fuller demo with features such as date navigation and RSS.

Requirements

PHP 4+, web scripting language
Web server, such as Apache
MySQL or PostgreSQL database highly recommended

Download program

Your rights to use and distribute CDAY are licensed to you under the GNU General Public License.

CDAY PHP v0.54 (.tar.gz, 21k)
CDAY PHP v0.54 (.zip, 31k)

Don't forget to download libraries, which are separate.

Monitor new releases using your SourceForge.net or Freshmeat.net account.

Installation

For best results start with these instructions to test the program. Then embed PHP into your existing web pages and customize library data for your audience.

Download the program.
Download libraries separately.
Unpack the archives to your web server directory (e.g., /var/www/html/cday).
Modify cday_cfg.php as needed using any text editor. Be sure to specify your database (type, host name, user name, password).
If you don't have shell access to your web server, modify cday_import.php to allow remote use. Upload libraries and PHP files to web server now.
Run the cday_import.php script. It copies library data to MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Test CDAY using a web browser.
When finished you may delete or disable the cday_import.php.

Ideas

Use only SQLite for back-end storage (to replace MySQL and Postgresql). (I would still use the text as an interchange format.)
Replace Kincaid format with XML.

Users

Clan Uke: notice integration and customized look
Royal Australian Navy - Gun Plot
Ballpark Flashblack