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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