API: Is It A Holiday On Date?

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Overview: Find out if a school/region/district/authority is currently on holiday on a specific date.

Result: API returns Holiday Status.
Note that the dates are in the format used in Europe: DD-MM-YYYY also note that the date must be in the future.

Holiday Status: true means the school is on holiday, false means it is a term date

Example API call for a district:

http://myschoolholidays.com/api/isItAHolidayOnADate?district_id=1&date=24-01-2010

Example of returned data:

{"status":true}

Example API call for a school:

http://myschoolholidays.com/api/isItAHolidayOnADate?school_id=8639&date=24-01-2010

Example of returned data:

{"status":true}

Example code for developers to work with

PHP..

< ?php
$ch = curl_init ("http://myschoolholidays.com/api/isItAHolidayOnADate?district_id=1&date=21-01-2010");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);
$isItAHoliday = json_decode($output);
echo $isItAHoliday["status"]; // A string containing true or false, note this is not a boolean at this point..
?>

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