NAME

Date::Namedays::Simple - simple base class for getting namedays for a given date.

SYNOPSIS

  use Date::Namedays::Simple::Your_Language_Module_Here;

  # create an instance
  # Date::Namedays::Simple is abstract, so must use a subclass
  my $nd = new Date::Namedays::Simple::Hungarian;       

  # get (all!) names for the year 2001, 24th of July
  my (@names) = $nd->getNames(7,24,2001);       
    
  # Now simply print them
  my $namestoday = join (',',@names);
  print $namestoday;

DESCRIPTION

In many countries, people not only celebrate their birthdays annually, but there is also the concept of "nameday". Calendars in these countries (e.g. Hungary) contain one ore more names for each day - the day on which a person with the given first name celebrate his/her nameday.

This module is here simply to aid you to get the namedays for a date. You simply supply the year, month and day, and the corresponding names are returned. It is as simple as that.

This module uses no external modules. It does not export anything - I wanted to keep it as simple as possible.

Please note: THIS MODULE IS ALPHA PHASE! It works, but I need some feedback. (Send feedback!) The methods and their parameters can change any time!

Note: names are stored in a human readable format. Because of this, they are parsed at runtime. This takes some time obviously - just don't worry about it, we "cache" that in $self, and actually that's why this module must be instanteniated, that's why we have instance methods instead of class methods.

Date::Namedays::Simple is an abstract class, it is always subclassed, for example to Date::Namedays::Simple::Hungarian. Subclasses must implement the "processNames()" method. This method shall return a string(!) in the following format:

1.1.name1,name2,...,nameN 1.2.name1,name2,...,nameN ... 12.31.name1,name2,...,nameN

Which is more precisely a "\n" separated list of the following lines:

$month.$day.$name1[,$name2,...,$nameN]\n

See Date::Namedays::Simple::Hungarian for example!

USAGE

 See SYNOPSIS.

BUGS

None so far... send bugreports!

SUPPORT

Ask the author. Only bugs concerning this module, please!

AUTHOR

        Csongor Fagyal
        csongorNOSPAMREMOVEME@fagyal.com
        http://www.conceptonline.com/about

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SEE ALSO

perl(1).