The monthly Irish PHP Users Group meetings are on tomorrow, Wednesday, night at 8 o’clock at the following venues:
Pádraic Brady, of Patterns for PHP et al, will be making his debut appearance at the Dublin venue.
It seems that my recent post about Date_Holidays has evolved into a request-fest for Drivers and Filters to calculate when the national and public holidays for various countries.
On the list to be developed so far are:
* Iceland
* Romania
* The Ukraine
Email me or leave a comment below if you are interested in this 
Date_Holidays 0.17.2 was released today; with two new drivers and some bug fixes!
Date_Holidays is a PEAR package for PHP that is used for determining whether a specific date is a [public] holiday in some specified country, listing all such holidays and for these reasons is a useful component for scheduling applications.
This is driver based, one per country.
Currently there are drivers for: Austria, Denmark, England & Wales, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands (new) , Norway (new), Slovenia, Sweden and the USA.
There are also drivers for Christian and Jewish holidays along with special ‘UN’ celebrated days such as “World Health Day”.
It’s very easy to write new drivers for Date_Holidays, heck I wrote the Ireland driver So if you’ve noticed there is no driver for where you are I’d recommend that you do so.
For the last few weeks I’ve been meaning to install ezPublish, a PHP based Content Management System from the guys working for eZ in Norway.
Well, because I have a number of different systems already running on my laptop I didn’t want to run the plain wizard/installer – just in case something got overwritten that I obviously should have made a backup of, I found the Manual “installation on a Linux/UNIX based system” documentation elsewhere on their site.
Thought I’d share the link as it may come in useful for someone else.
