Today is Tuesday, November 24, 2009.

Birthdays

1632 Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
1713 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California.
1784 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850)
1853 Bat Masterson
1864 Henre de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter
1868 Scott Joplin, entertainer
1868 Scott Joplin
1888 Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
1925 William F. Buckley, Jr., right-wing curmudgeon

Events

1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1874 Patent granted to Joseph Glidden for barbed wire.
1963 first live murder on TV - Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald.
1971 "D B Cooper" parachutes from a Northwest 727 with $200,000.
1992 last U.S. servicemen leave the Philippines - the lease expired.

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