ummalqura time/ hijri date plugin for mybb 1.4x and 1.6x

Lunar Date has been used so long ago.. although the moon movement is more accurate and more suitable for calculating months than the Sun (which is more suitable for calculating days).


in the photo you can see that the moon enters  in different phases (phases are read from the right to left and from up down) in different days.. increasing ==> full moon ==> decreasing in size

Lunar (hijri) Date has 12 months, each month either  composed of 29 or 30 days, the 12-months are named in arabic language as follows:

1.محرم: Muḥarram

2. صفر: Safar

3. ربيع اﻷول: Rabīʿ al-Awwal

4.ربيع الثاني: Rabīʿ ath-Thānī

5.جمادى اﻷولى: Jumādā al-Ūlā

6.جمادى الثانية: Jumādā ath-Thāniya

7.رجب: Rajab

8. شعبان: Shaʿbān

9. رمضان: Ramaḍān

10 شوّال: Shawwāl

11. ذو القعدة: Dhū al-Qaʿda

12 ذو الحجّة: Dhū al-Ḥijja

About this plugin:

This  plugin let you to display umm alqura time and Lunar(Hijri) date on your forum instead of  server time and Gregorian Date with the following features:
1. Easliy Disable/Enable the plugin at any time.
2. Easily apply correction to the date from your Admin panel and upto 5 days difference
3. Support displaying Um alqura time by contacting um alqura webiste(optional)
4. Support displaying important days as global message for instance 1st day of ramadan, eid al fetr ..etc
5. Supports Arabic and English (front End) and English(Admin panel)
6. Easly add more important dates to show in your board(sample file included)





NOTES:

1. This plugin  have mixed licenses, but still using of it is totally free
2. For more info aout licenses and code take a look at the source code of inc/umalqura.php

Installation:

1. upload root folder to your forum root folder.
2. Edit "inc/functions.php" as instructed in readme file(I included a modified functions.php from mybb 1.6.7 just backup/rename the original functions.php to functions-old.php and place the modified one(from my plugin) in the inc folder there.
3. Go to Admin plugins manager install/Activate
4. Go to Umm Al-Qura Time/ Hijri Date in settings manager, and switch it on, enjoy

Screenshots:

License

Released under Creative Commons - Attribution No Derivatives
cc by-nd
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode
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Download link:
Download Umm Al-qura Time / Hijri Date - Size: ~ 48Kb


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