With PHP 5.5, the functionality changed regarding Adar in a non-leap year. Prior to 5.5, the month was returned as 6. In 5.5 and 5.6, the month is returned as 7. This difference is not listed under "What has changed in PHP 5.5.x".
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jdtojewish — Converts a Julian day count to a Jewish calendar date
$juliandaycount
[, bool $hebrew = false
[, int $fl = 0
]] )Converts a Julian Day Count to the Jewish Calendar.
juliandayA julian day number as integer
hebrew
If the hebrew parameter is set to TRUE, the
fl parameter is used for Hebrew, string based,
output format.
fl
The available formats are:
CAL_JEWISH_ADD_ALAFIM_GERESH,
CAL_JEWISH_ADD_ALAFIM,
CAL_JEWISH_ADD_GERESHAYIM.
The jewish date as a string in the form "month/day/year"
Example #1 jdtojewish() Example
<?php
echo jdtojewish(gregoriantojd(10, 8, 2002), true,
CAL_JEWISH_ADD_GERESHAYIM + CAL_JEWISH_ADD_ALAFIM + CAL_JEWISH_ADD_ALAFIM_GERESH);
?>
With PHP 5.5, the functionality changed regarding Adar in a non-leap year. Prior to 5.5, the month was returned as 6. In 5.5 and 5.6, the month is returned as 7. This difference is not listed under "What has changed in PHP 5.5.x".
<?php
// Hebrew date in hebrew
$str = jdtojewish(gregoriantojd( date('m'), date('d'), date('Y')), true, CAL_JEWISH_ADD_GERESHAYIM + CAL_JEWISH_ADD_ALAFIM + CAL_JEWISH_ADD_ALAFIM_GERESH); // for today
$str1 = iconv ('WINDOWS-1255', 'UTF-8', $str); // convert to utf-8
echo $str1; // for 23/03/2012 will print: כ"ט אדר ה' אלפים תשע"ב
// or
$str = jdtojewish(gregoriantojd( date('m'), date('d'), date('Y')), true, CAL_JEWISH_ADD_GERESHAYIM); // for today
$str1 = iconv ('WINDOWS-1255', 'UTF-8', $str); // convert to utf-8
echo $str1; // for 23/03/2012 will print: כ"ט אדר התשע"ב
?>
In Hebrew leap years, the function will return 6 for Adar A, 7 for Adar B, 8 for Nisan, etc.
In Hebrew non-leap years, the function will return 6 for Adar, 8 for Nisan, etc.
i.e., the "real" Adar is Adar A.
Sometimes it is useful to have the date in the format YYYY-MM-DD, which is sortable (e.g. you can sort dates by sorting the strings):
<?php
function JDToSortableJewish($jd) {
return
preg_replace("|(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)|","$3-$1-$2", // year-month-day
preg_replace("|/(\d)/|","/0$1/", // add zeros to the day
preg_replace("|^(\d)/|","0$1/", // add zeros to the month
JDToJewish($jd))));
}
?>
This function outputs in ISO-8859-8-l.
To convert to unicode UTF-8 do this:
<?php
echo mb_convert_encoding( jdtojewish( unixtojd(), true ), "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-8");
?>
Based on the code already posted by Dave, I've modified it to display the *current* date on a page:
<?php
$gregorianMonth = date(n);
$gregorianDay = date(j);
$gregorianYear = date(Y);
$jdDate = gregoriantojd($gregorianMonth,$gregorianDay,$gregorianYear);
$hebrewMonthName = jdmonthname($jdDate,4);
$hebrewDate = jdtojewish($jdDate);
list($hebrewMonth, $hebrewDay, $hebrewYear) = split('/',$hebrewDate);
echo "$hebrewDay $hebrewMonthName $hebrewYear";
?>
There's probably a simpler way to do this, but I needed to convert a Gregorian date to a Hebrew one and display it with the Hebrew month name (not the number).
Perhaps it can help somebody...
<?php
//enter your Gregorian date with the variables $gregorianMonth, $gregorianDay, and $gregorianYear using the numerical representation of the month
$jdDate = gregoriantojd ( $gregorianMonth, $gregorianDay, $gregorianYear);
$gregorianMonthName = jdmonthname ( $jdDate, 1 );
$hebrewDate = jdtojewish ($jdDate);
list ($hebrewMonth, $hebrewDay, $hebrewYear) = split ('/', $hebrewDate);
$hebrewMonthName = jdmonthname ( $jdDate, 4);
echo "Your date in Hebrew would read: $hebrewDay $hebrewMonthName $hebrewYear";
?>