Yasumi (Japanese for 'Holiday'「休み」) is the easy PHP library that helps you retrieve the dates and names of holidays and other special celebrations from various countries/states. It is calculation and rule driven avoiding the need of a comprehensive database.

Many services exist that can provide holiday information, however are either not entirely free or only offer limited information. In addition, no exhaustive PHP library exists today covering a wide range of holidays and countries. PEAR's Date_Holidays library was a similar attempt, however it hasn't been updated for a long time.

The goal of Yasumi is to be powerful while remaining lightweight, by utilizing PHP native classes wherever possible. Yasumi's calculation is provider-based (i.e. by country/state), making it easy to add new holiday providers that calculate holidays.

• Pure PHP
• Straightforward API
• Framework-agnostic
• Use of Providers to easily extend and expand new Holidays
• Common Holiday Providers
• Accounts for the date/time when holidays have been officially established and/or abolished
• Filters enabling to easily select certain holiday types (Official, Observed, Bank, Seasonal or Other)
• Global Translations
• Time zone aware
• Implements ArrayIterator to easily process a provider's holidays
• Fully documented
• Fully unit tested
• Composer ready, PSR-12 and PSR-4 compliant

Yasumi’s documentation is available on https://www.yasumi.dev. You will find all the necessary information how to install Yasumi and also recipes how you can use Yasumi in your project.

Checkout the blog section on documentation site regularly for latest updates. Keeping you informed about any news, releases, etc. in a handy blog post format!

Contributions are encouraged and welcome; I am always happy to get feedback or pull requests on GitHub :) Create Github Issues for bugs and new features and comment on the ones you are interested in.

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Yasumi is open-source software licensed under the MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE for more information.