Configure and Display a Schedule of Opening Hours in PHP

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Opening Hours is a PHP package by Spatie to query and format a set of business operating hours. You can use it to present the times per day and include exceptions for things like holidays and other days off on a given year-specific date or recurring (happening each year). The project's readme file has this example to illustrate how you can configure hours:
$openingHours = OpeningHours::create([
'monday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-18:00'],
'tuesday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-18:00'],
'wednesday' => ['09:00-12:00'],
'thursday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-18:00'],
'friday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-20:00'],
'saturday' => ['09:00-12:00', '13:00-16:00'],
'sunday' => [],
'exceptions' => [
'2016-11-11' => ['09:00-12:00'],
'2016-12-25' => [],
'01-01' => [], // Recurring on each 1st of January
'12-25' => ['09:00-12:00'], // Recurring on each 25th of December
],
]);

// This will allow you to display things like:

$now = new DateTime('now');
$range = $openingHours->currentOpenRange($now);

if ($range) {
echo "It's open since ".$range->start()."\n";
echo "It will close at ".$range->end()."\n";
} else {
echo "It's closed since ".$openingHours->previousClose($now)->format('l H:i')."\n";
echo "It will re-open at ".$openingHours->nextOpen($now)->format('l H:i')."\n";
}




This package has tons of configuration options and can be used on any PHP project without any dependencies. While this package isn't a brand-new Spatie package, we've never covered it and think you should check it out! You can get setup instructions and see more API examples on GitHub at spatie/opening-hours.


If you'd like to learn more background information on why this package as created, Freek Van der Herten originally wrote about it on his blog: Managing opening hours with PHP.



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