Task 3 Demonstrations

(a) String Manipulation

(b) Date and Time Details

diff($xmas);

echo "Year: " . $today->format("Y") . "\n";
echo "Month: " . $today->format("F") . "\n";
echo "Day of week: " . $today->format("l") . "\n";
echo "Week number: " . $today->format("W") . "\n";
echo "Days until Christmas 2025: " . $gap->days . " days";
?>
        

(c) SADC Country List

Original Order:

"; foreach ($sadcCountries as $c) { echo "
• $c
"; } echo "

"; rsort($sadcCountries); echo "

Sorted Descending (Z → A):

"; foreach ($sadcCountries as $c) { echo "
• $c
"; } echo "

"; ?>

(d) Capitals of SADC Countries

Select Country: -- Select a country -- "Luanda","Botswana"=>"Gaborone","Comoros"=>"Moroni", "Democratic Republic of Congo"=>"Kinshasa","Eswatini"=>"Mbabane", "Lesotho"=>"Maseru","Madagascar"=>"Antananarivo","Malawi"=>"Lilongwe", "Mauritius"=>"Port Louis","Mozambique"=>"Maputo","Namibia"=>"Windhoek", "Seychelles"=>"Victoria", "South Africa"=>"Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein", "Tanzania"=>"Dodoma","Zambia"=>"Lusaka","Zimbabwe"=>"Harare" ]; foreach (array_keys($countryList) as $name) { echo "$name"; } ?>

$choice → " . $countryList[$choice] . "

"; } ?>