Carbon: holiday or festive days?

[carlituxman]

it can be possible have some method like isWeekend but isHoliday establishing an array or by location, to know if date is on holiday?

[Anahkiasen]

That would be incredibly complicated, do you know how many days are considered holidays all countries combined ?

[carlituxman]

I think, but if we would use, we can add a config array of days for example:
'Christmas' => [12,25], //to repeat festive days every year
'New Year' => [01,01],
'my festive' => [2014,05,01] //to only day timely festive

[kylekatarnls]

And somes holydays (like Easter) are not same dates each year.
I think you better have to do your own extension :

MyCarbon extends Carbon {
    public function isHoliday() {
        return in_array([ $this->month, $this->day ], [
            [12, 25], // Christmas
            [01, 01], // New Year
            ...
        ]);
    }
}

[Anahkiasen]

I think what Carbon needs is a macro functionality so you can add your own feature over it. If you need to define the holidays yourself this is pretty much what this would be.

Carbon::macro('isHoliday', function ($date) {
    return in_array($date->format('Y-m-d'), [holidays]); 
});

Carbon::parse('some-date')->isHoliday();

Something like that, that would allow people to add helpers for their edge cases, what do you think @briannesbitt ?

[carlituxman]

great! thanks!

[moleculezz]

There is a set of packages that is trying to solve just that.
https://github.com/Altruja/workday which makes use of https://github.com/Mayflower/libholiday

[no92]

Good luck with that, incredibly complicated to do something like that! BTW, christmas in Germany is always the 24th of December, not the 25th.

[briannesbitt]

I rather this be done in a sub class than adding macro functionality. If it then becomes flushed out and useful for others (and a common issue) then we can look at pulling it in.

[rmblstrp]

I created a PR which adds Carbon extensions that check to see if a given date is a business day. Custom holiday and business schedules can be provided which allow you to properly determine what the date is for next or previous number of business days.

https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/pull/706

[kylekatarnls]

Will appear in the documentation:
https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/compare/gh-pages...kylekatarnls:gh-pages-1.26