Anything Goes here...: July 2006

I wanted to add a calendar to my blog and knew I dont have to re-create the wheel.. This is used mainly when you are in the archives section.

This section goes between <head> and </head>

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">

/* you absolutely, positively must change the value for dateType below to match your
"Date Header Format" as set in your blog's Settings
if your date format is:
"Sunday, June 24, 2001" use 1
"6/24/2001" use 2
"6.24.2001" use 3
"20010624" use 4
"2001/06/24" use 5
"2001-06-24" use 6
"24.6.01" use 7
"June 24, 2001" use 8
"june 24, 2001" use 9
something else, change to one of those and use the right number! */

dateType = "1";

tableFontStyle = "10px Verdana";
tableBackgroundStyle = "#eee";
tableBackgroundLinkStyle = "#ffff99";
// tableBorderStyle is the CSS style applied to the outside of the table, and around each cell
tableBorderStyle = "1px solid black";
// tableBorder is the ugly old HTML border attribute
tableBorder = "0";

/* change the lowMonthNames if you use a non-English language and you use one of the date styles
with the month name in the date, but be sure they are in lower case (these are used for
matching, not displaying */

lowMonthNames = new Array("january", "february", "march", "april", "may", "june", "july", "august", "september", "october", "november", "december");

// you can change the displayMonthNames and displayWeekdayNames to anything that suits you

displayMonthNames = new Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
displayWeekdayNames = new Array("Su", "Mo", "Tu", "We", "Th", "Fr", "Sa");

/* if you already do something with the body onload event (or want to later), add a call to
it in this function or put the "if (inArchives) drawCalendar();" call in your existing
onload function */
function doOnloadTasks(){
if (inArchives) drawCalendar();
}

// time to stop changing things, unless you are sure you know what you're doing!
links = new Array();
inArchives = false;
if (location.href.indexOf("<$BlogArchiveFileName$>") > -1) inArchives = true;

function datesplitter(date, datetype){
switch(datetype){
case "1" :
date = date.substring(date.indexOf(",")+2);
year = date.substring(date.length-4);
day = date.substring(date.indexOf(" ")+1,date.indexOf(","));
wordMonth = date.substring(0,date.indexOf(" "));
wordMonth = wordMonth.toLowerCase();
for (i = 0; i < 12; i++){
if (lowMonthNames[i] == wordMonth){
month = i;
i = 12;
}
}
break;
case "2" :
year = date.substring(date.length-4);
month = date.substring(0,date.indexOf("/"))-1;
day = date.substring(date.indexOf("/")+1,date.lastIndexOf("/"));
break;
case "3" :
year = date.substring(date.length-4);
month = date.substring(0,date.indexOf("."))-1;
day = date.substring(date.indexOf(".")+1,date.lastIndexOf("."));
break;
case "4" :
year = date.substring(0,4);
month = date.substring(4,6);
if (month.charAt(0) == "0") month = month.substring(1);
month = month-1;
day = date.substring(6);
if (day.charAt(0) == "0") day = day.substring(1);
break;
case "5" :
year = date.substring(0,4);
month = date.substring(date.indexOf("/")+1,date.lastIndexOf("/"));
if (month.charAt(0) == "0") month = month.substring(1);
month = month-1;
day = date.substring(date.lastIndexOf("/")+1);
if (day.charAt(0) == "0") day = day.substring(1);
break;
case "6" :
year = date.substring(0,4);
month = date.substring(date.indexOf("-")+1,date.lastIndexOf("-"));
if (month.charAt(0) == "0") month = month.substring(1);
month = month-1;
day = date.substring(date.lastIndexOf("-")+1);
if (day.charAt(0) == "0") day = day.substring(1);
break;
case "7" :
year = date.substring(date.length-2);
if (year.charAt(0) == "0") year = year.charAt(1);
year = parseInt(year);
if (year < 50) year = 2000 + year; else year = 1900 + year;
month = date.substring(date.indexOf(".")+1,date.lastIndexOf("."))-1;
day = date.substring(0,date.indexOf("."));
break;
case "8" :
year = date.substring(date.length-4);
day = date.substring(date.indexOf(" ")+1,date.indexOf(","));
wordMonth = date.substring(0,date.indexOf(" "));
wordMonth = wordMonth.toLowerCase();
for (i = 0; i < 12; i++){
if (lowMonthNames[i] == wordMonth){
month = i;
i = 12;
}
}
break;
case "9" :
year = date.substring(date.length-4);
day = date.substring(date.indexOf(" ")+1,date.indexOf(","));
wordMonth = date.substring(0,date.indexOf(" "));
for (i = 0; i < 12; i++){
if (lowMonthNames[i] == wordMonth){
month = i;
i = 12;
}
}
break;
default :
year = 1980;
month = 1;
day = 1;
}
oDate = new Date(year, month, day);
return oDate;
}

function countDays(date){
// given a date object, return number of days in that month
monthcount = new Array ("31", "28", "31", "30", "31", "30", "31", "31", "30", "31", "30", "31");
year = date.getFullYear();
if (year % 4 == 0){
if (year % 100 == 0){
if (year % 400 == 0){
monthcount[1]++;
}
}
else {
monthcount[1]++;
}
}
return monthcount[date.getMonth()];
}

function drawCalendar(){
// only executes in a DOM compliant browser
if (document.getElementById){
if (document.createElement){
// IE is just barely compliant, if you use a deprecated style of attribute setting
navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") > 0 ? isIE = true : isIE = false;
calStart = realDate;
calStart.setDate(1);
dayCount = countDays(calStart);
leadblanks = calStart.getDay();
oTable = document.createElement("TABLE");
oTBody = document.createElement("TBODY");
oRow = document.createElement("TR");
oCell = document.createElement("TD");
if (isIE)
oCell.colSpan="7";
else
oCell.setAttribute("colspan", "7");
oDateLabel = document.createTextNode(displayMonthNames[calStart.getMonth()] + " " + calStart.getFullYear());
oCell.appendChild(oDateLabel);
oRow.appendChild(oCell);
oTBody.appendChild(oRow);
oRow = document.createElement("TR");
for (i=0;i<7;i++){
oCell = document.createElement("TD");
oCell.style.border = tableBorderStyle;
oDay = document.createTextNode(displayWeekdayNames[i]);
oCell.appendChild(oDay);
oRow.appendChild(oCell);
}
oTBody.appendChild(oRow);
dayindex = 1;
while (dayindex <= dayCount){
oRow = document.createElement("TR");
for (i=0;i<leadblanks;i++){
oCell = document.createElement("TD");
oCell.style.border = tableBorderStyle;
if (isIE)
oSpace = document.createTextNode(" ");
else
{
oSpace = document.createTextNode("*");
oCell.style.color = tableBackgroundStyle;
}
oCell.appendChild(oSpace);
oRow.appendChild(oCell);
}
for (b=leadblanks;b<7;b++){
oCell = document.createElement("TD");
oCell.style.border = tableBorderStyle;
if (links[dayindex] != null){
oLink = document.createElement("A");
if (isIE)
oLink.href=links[dayindex];
else
oLink.setAttribute("href", links[dayindex]);
oLinkText = document.createTextNode(dayindex);
oLink.appendChild(oLinkText);
oCell.appendChild(oLink);
oCell.style.background = tableBackgroundLinkStyle;
}
else
if (dayindex <= dayCount){
oDayText = document.createTextNode(dayindex);
oCell.appendChild(oDayText);
}
else {
if (isIE)
oSpace = document.createTextNode(" ");
else
{
oSpace = document.createTextNode("*");
oCell.style.color = tableBackgroundStyle;
}
oCell.appendChild(oSpace);
}
oRow.appendChild(oCell);
oTBody.appendChild(oRow);
dayindex++;
}
leadblanks = 0;
}
oTBody.style.font = tableFontStyle;
oTBody.style.textAlign = "center";
oTable.appendChild(oTBody);
if (isIE)
oTable.style.background = tableBackgroundStyle;
else
oTable.setAttribute("bgColor", tableBackgroundStyle);
oTable.border = tableBorder;
oTable.style.border = tableBorderStyle;
calendarSpot = document.getElementById("CalendarHere");
calendarSpot.appendChild(oTable);
}
}
}
</script>

This goes in your <body> tag

<body onload="doOnloadTasks()">

This goes where you want the calendar to appear

<span id="CalendarHere"><!-- tells the script where to put the calendar --></span>

This replaces your <BlogDateHeader> to </BlogDateHeader> section

<BlogDateHeader>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  var postDate="<$BlogDateHeaderDate$>";
  realDate = datesplitter(postDate,dateType);
  anchorDate = realDate.valueOf();
  links[realDate.getDate()] = "#d" + anchorDate;
  document.write("<a name='d" + anchorDate + "'></a>");
  </script>
  <$BlogDateHeaderDate$>
</BlogDateHeader>

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Monday, July 31, 2006

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