ManDate

Simple utility for testing dates against chained rules.

Installation

The recommended way to install ManDate is through Composer. Require the pierswarmers/mandate package into your composer.json file:

composer require "pierswarmers/mandate" dev-master

composer require "pierswarmers/mandate" dev-master

Or in your composer.json file:

{
    "require": {
        "pierswarmers/mandate": "dev-master"
    }
}

Usage

use ManDate\Mandate;
use ManDate\Rule\WeekdayRule;
use ManDate\Rule\DaytimeRule;
use ManDate\Rule\MorningRule;

$mandate = new Mandate();

$mandate
    ->andWhere(new WeekdayRule())
    ->andWhere(new DaytimeRule())
    ->andWhereNot(new MorningRule())
;

$date  = new \DateTime('2015-03-02 11:30', new \DateTimeZone('Australia/Sydney'));

if ($mandate->validate($date)) {
    echo 'It\'s a weekday afternoon!';
}

Rules

Rule	Details
AfternoonRule	Later than midday.
CollisionRule	Collides with another date.
DaytimeRule	After sunrise and before sunset.
MorningRule	Earlier than midday.
NighttimeRule	After sunset and before sunrise.
WeekdayRule	Monday to Friday.
WeekendRule	Saturday and Sunday.