Today is Monday, November 9, 2009.

Birthdays

1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1821 Charles Baudelaire, Poet
1830 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer photographer
1841 Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
1850 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology
1885 H. Weyl --1955
1898 Paul Robeson, actor and singer (Show Boat, Song of Freedom)
1903 Gregory Pincus, inventor of the birth control pill
1915 Hedy Lamarr, sexy actress (Algiers, Ecstasy)
1918 Spiro Agnew
1926 Hugh Hefner, publisher (but oh what a publisher!)
1934 Carl Sagan, cosmology spokesman
1934 Carl Sagan
1936 Mary Travers
1941 Tom Fogerty
1951 Lou Ferrigno

Events

1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox, ending the US Civil War.
1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union
1965 at 5:16pm, a massive power failure blacks out New Engl. & Ontario
1967 first unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module

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