Class: ArDate (arabic, timestamp)

Name:	ArDate Support forum
Base name:	`ardate`
Description:	Format times and dates in Arabic
Search tags:	arabic, timestamp
Version:	`1.0`
Required PHP version:	`4.0`
License:	GNU General Public License (GPL)
All time users:	867 users
All time rank:	2394
Week users:	12 users
Week rank:	543
Country specific:	This package is specific mainly for applications used in Saudi Arabia .

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Name: Khaled Al-Shamaa <e-mail contact>

Published packages: 21

Country: Syria - PHP jobs in Syria

Home page: http://www.ar-php.com/

Age: 33

All time rank: 135

Week rank: 35

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Innovation Award:

December 2006
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PHP provides an extensive set of functions to manipulate and format date and time values. However, these functions only work with the Gregorian calendar.

This class provides an alternative that works with the Arabic calendar.

Manuel Lemos

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Detailed description:

This class can be used to format times and dates in Arabic.

It implements functionality similar to PHP date function. It takes as parameters a timestamp integer value and a date format string.

The class returns a string formatted represented the given date in Arabic encoded using the Windows-1256 character set. The names of the months, days of the week and AM and PM references are translated into the Arabic equivalents.

The class can also convert a data from the Gregorian calendar (represented in timestamp input) into a data Hegri Islamic calendar using same format string of the PHP date function.

This class is part of Khaled Al-Shamaa project for PHP and Arabic language:
http://www.al-shamaa.com/php/arabic/

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Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Perfect (100.0%)`	`Good (90.0%)`	`Good (95.0%)`	`Perfect (100.0%)`	`-`	`-`	`Sufficient (78.5%)`	6
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File	Role	Description
`about.html`	Doc.	Documentation
`ArDate.class.php`	Class	Class file
`example.php`	Example	Example script
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`alpha.png`	Icon	Image
`shadow.gif`	Icon	Image
`thumb.jpg`	Icon	Image
`php5`
`ArDate.class.php`	Class	Class file
`style.css`	Data	Class file

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