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WordPress › Support Topic: How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar? http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar? en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:38:53 +0000 Copernicus on "How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272478#post-1108540 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:24:54 +0000 Copernicus 1108540@http://wordpress.org/support/ That worked perfectly! Thank you MichaelH. The only thing I had to change to get it working was the addition of a ";" before the "echo." So, now, the entire snippet reads: <code>{php:$datestring=jdtojewish(gregoriantojd({date:n,j,Y})); echo substr($datestring, -4);}</code> Thanks again, this was a huge help! MichaelH on "How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272478#post-1080674 Fri, 22 May 2009 12:55:03 +0000 MichaelH 1080674@http://wordpress.org/support/ At the very least couldn't you do something like: <pre><code>$datestring = jdtojewish(gregoriantojd({date:n,j,Y})) echo substr($datestring, -4);</code></pre> Copernicus on "How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272478#post-1080207 Thu, 21 May 2009 21:47:38 +0000 Copernicus 1080207@http://wordpress.org/support/ Follow-up (posted for the benefit of anyone else that might seek a similar solution): I'm embarrassed to say that, after all of that work, the code snippet I had did not accurately transliterate the years (for example 12/15/2006 became 5766 instead of 5767). Thus, I found another way utilizing a combination of what I learned from MichaelH (above) and <a href="http://rmarsh.com/plugins/recent-posts/">Rob Marsh's "Recent Posts" plugin</a>. Now, I employ the following code: <pre><code><?php if (function_exists('recent_posts')) recent_posts('included_cats=1&amp;limit=10&amp;output_template=<a href="{url}">{php:echo(jdtojewish(gregoriantojd({date:n,j,Y})));}</a>'); ?></code></pre> and it displays the posts (in the sample above, the category of interest has the category ID of "1") with the proper Hebrew date as a link. Unfortunately, it displays the FULL date (MM/DD/YYYY) instead of just the year (which is what I require in my specific project)... but at least it works. As a note, the jdtojewish PHP function needs the full date in MM,DD,YYYY format to transliterate properly into a Hebrew year. If I had better chops, I could probably figure out how to use the above code AND make it only display the year. For now, I do not have those chops. Thanks again to MichaelH for the help. Copernicus on "How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272478#post-1080174 Thu, 21 May 2009 20:58:47 +0000 Copernicus 1080174@http://wordpress.org/support/ Thanks again, Michael, for all your help! It turns out, for whatever reason, I needed to have the code <pre><code>$gregorianMonth = mysql2date("n", $post->post_date); $gregorianDay = mysql2date("j", $post->post_date); $gregorianYear = mysql2date("Y", $post->post_date); $jdDate = gregoriantojd($gregorianMonth,$gregorianDay,$gregorianYear); $hebrewMonthName = jdmonthname($jdDate,4); $hebrewDate = jdtojewish($jdDate); list($hebrewMonth, $hebrewDay, $hebrewYear) = split('/',$hebrewDate);</code></pre> in BOTH loops. Adding the code to both has it now working! There's probably a more efficient way to do this, but at this point, I'm just happy that it works. Thank you! MichaelH on "How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272478#post-1079756 Thu, 21 May 2009 13:06:50 +0000 MichaelH 1079756@http://wordpress.org/support/ Just as a note, I didn't confirm that your code to create the Hebrew date works... You have three different post loops there but only show date conversion logic in the first loop. If that isn't the issue you may need to paste your complete template to a pastebin <a href="http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/</a> and report the link back here. Copernicus on "How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272478#post-1079486 Thu, 21 May 2009 03:22:52 +0000 Copernicus 1079486@http://wordpress.org/support/ Oh, man, Michael, thank you for the great start. I'm definitely getting closer, but can't get it to work just yet. So far, I have: <pre><code><?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <?php $gregorianMonth = mysql2date("n", $post->post_date); $gregorianDay = mysql2date("j", $post->post_date); $gregorianYear = mysql2date("Y", $post->post_date); $jdDate = gregoriantojd($gregorianMonth,$gregorianDay,$gregorianYear); $hebrewMonthName = jdmonthname($jdDate,4); $hebrewDate = jdtojewish($jdDate); list($hebrewMonth, $hebrewDay, $hebrewYear) = split('/',$hebrewDate); ?></code></pre> Then, in calling the posts, I am using either: <pre><code><?php global $post; $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=99&amp;category=40'); foreach($myposts as $post) : ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_time(Y); ?></a> <?php endforeach; ?></code></pre> or <pre><code><?php global $post; $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=99&amp;category=40'); foreach($myposts as $post) : ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_time($hebrewYear); ?></a> <?php endforeach; ?></code></pre> The first bit of code accurately displays the Gregorian year of each post (for example 2006 & 2009 for two sample posts). The second bit of code displays the Hebrew year - BUT it's only the current Hebrew year, not the Hebrew year of the post (both of them showing up as 5769 rather than 5767 and 5769). Does anything in the above set-up jump out as responsible for that problem? Thanks again for the help! MichaelH on "How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272478#post-1079394 Thu, 21 May 2009 00:15:40 +0000 MichaelH 1079394@http://wordpress.org/support/ In a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop">loop</a>, these variables for your routine: <pre><code>$gregorianMonth = mysql2date("n", $post->post_date); $gregorianDay = mysql2date("j", $post->post_date); $gregorianYear = mysql2date("Y", $post->post_date);</code></pre> Copernicus on "How to convert a post's date/year from Gregorian calendar to Hebrew calendar?" http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272478#post-1079262 Wed, 20 May 2009 21:57:35 +0000 Copernicus 1079262@http://wordpress.org/support/ For a project I'm working on, we wish to convert the date of posts within a single category from the Gregorian calendar year (2009, for example) to the Hebrew calendar year (5769, in this case). Does anyone know how to do this? I found the PHP snippet below, but have no idea how to call it within WordPress so that it would convert the date output with a post to read in the Hebrew year. Any & all help is appreciated! Sample code snippet that seems to do what we're looking for: <pre><code><?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"; ?></code></pre>