Hi everyone,

I'm doing an experimental Blog now and having some difficulties about Date in
Flash.

What I'm trying to do is to seperate each months into weeks.
So let's say I want to display my blog in August. Since August has 5 weeks, I
want to display all entries in 5 different tables. Each table represents week.
So the first table will only show 6 entries, because the first week of August
begins tuesday (aug 1) and ends Sunday (Aug 6).

The second table will display 7 entries and so forth.

Is this possible?

thank you

Yes it is doable. Check the help filed for the Date class. There you will find
the getDay() method. This returns an integer representing the day of the week a
given date will fall upon. It starts 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, and so on.

So to figure out which day August 1, 2006 was you would do this:

myDate=new Date(2006,7,1)//Remember months start at 0 for Jan
startDay=myDate.getDay();
trace(startDay)//Should be 2 for Tuesday

Also a nice trick is this:

myDate=new Date(2006,7,0);

That gives you the zeroth day for August which is really the last day of July.
I'm sure you will find a million uses for that.

The code below will find the first day and last day of the month. It has trace
statements that will output a message on where to create code for these tables
and entry fields that you plan to have. I don?t know if you need to create
these tables/entries for the whole year or not, if so then you need to change
the month parameter for the Date object constructor.

var dayNames_array:Array = new Array("Sunday",
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday",
"Friday",
"Saturday");

var monthNames_array:Array = new Array("January",
"February",
"March",
"April",
"May",
"June",
"July",
"August",
"September",
"October",
"November",
"December");

var current_date:Date = new Date();
var currentYear = this.current_date.getFullYear();
var currentMonth = this.current_date.getMonth()
var currentMonthsDate = this.current_date.getDate();
var currentMonthsWeek = Math.floor(currentMonthsDate/7);
var currentDayOfWeek = this.current_date.getDay();

var firstLastDay:Date = new Date( this.currentYear,
this.currentMonth,
1);

var firstDateOfMonth = firstLastDay.getDay();//returns 2
var firstDayOfMonth = this.getDayAsString(firstDateOfMonth);//returns Tuesday
var lastDateOfMonth = findLastDateOfMonth();
var foundElementToStart = findStartingPoint(firstDayOfMonth);
var datePointer:Number = 1;

this.createEntriesAndTable(foundElementToStart);

function getDayAsString(day:Number):String
{
return this.dayNames_array[day]
}

function getMonthAsString(month:Number):String
{
return monthNames_array[month];
}

function findLastDateOfMonth():Number
{
for(var i=27; i<=35; i++)
{
this.firstLastDay.setDate(i);
//trace(this.firstLastDay.getDate());

if(firstLastDay.getDate() < i)
{
return i-1;
break;
}
}
}

function findStartingPoint(firstDayOfMonth):Number
{
var foundElement:Number;

for(var i=0; i<=this.dayNames_array.length; i++)
{
findingElement = this.dayNames_array[i];

if(findingElement == firstDayOfMonth)
{
foundElement = i;
return foundElement;
break;
}
}
}

function createEntriesAndTable(elementToStart:Number)
{
trace("need code to create table here");
var dayNamesArrayLength = this.dayNames_array.length;

for(elementToStart; elementToStart<=dayNamesArrayLength; elementToStart++)
{
if(this.datePointer == this.lastDateOfMonth){
trace("need code to create an entry field for the "+this.datePointer+" day
which is a "+dayNames_array[elementToStart]+".");
break;
}else if(dayNamesArrayLength == elementToStart){
//trace("need code to create an entry field for the "+this.datePointer+"
day");
createEntriesAndTable(0);
}else
trace("need code to create an entry field for the "+this.datePointer+" day
which is a "+dayNames_array[elementToStart]+".");
this.datePointer++;
}
}

//trace("This is the current month >>> "+this.getMonthAsString(currentMonth));
//trace("This is the current week >>> "+this.currentMonthsWeek);
//trace("This is the current day >>>
"+this.getDayAsString(currentDayOfWeek));
//trace("This is the current date >>> "+this.currentMonthsDate);
trace("________________________________________________");
trace("The first day of this month was >>>
"+this.getDayAsString(firstDateOfMonth));
trace("The last date of this month is >>> "+lastDateOfMonth);

Oh thanks alot guys!!
I'm sorry for such a late reply, I was away for a fewdays without a computer.