Comments on: Hebrew Date Plugin Version 0.9 Released

By: mikeage.net » Blog Archive » Wordpress and Hebrew Dates

mikeage.net » Blog Archive » Wordpress and Hebrew Dates — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

[...] modified the Hebrew Dates plugin from KosherJava slightly, so that all configuration data is now stored in the database (not [...]

By: Mike Miller

Mike Miller — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

[Also cross-posted to my blog] I'm not sure what else needs to be done; the date does need some work (Internally, I use get_the_date to get the date/time of the post, and get_comment_date); I'll try playing with that. The other big issue is formatting. At the moment, it's hard coded as DD MMM YYYY (or something similar for archives). If the entire date is English (numbers + transliteration), it works just fine. If the entire thing is Hebrew, it also works just fine without needed a span/rtl. If, however, we have numbers + Hebrew, it shows up in the wrong order (17 מרחשון 5756) (numbers are weakly directional in the bidi algorithm), and so I add a tag. I'm also not sure there's a need for Hebrew formatting that's not either 17 Marchesvan 5767 or 17 מרחשון 5756 (in all Hebrew, it's of course always ב' מרחשון תשס"ז). I've put up a screen shot of the current config options as well.

By: KosherJava

KosherJava — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am very grateful that you picked up development of the plugin. I have not had much time lately to keep it up to date, and it is nice that it is being actively developed. I was new to WordPress and some of the code shows it. The way it parses dates reflected my lack of ability to get to the native unformatted date. If this were ever fixed, it would likely work in other languages as well. There must have been a reason I did it this way, though the reasoning escapes me at the time (I havn’t really looked at it in a long time). Do you have any additional plans for the plugin? Keep me posted. As far as track back, it is probably the overzealous spam filters that prevent them from working, so I am cross posting this to my blog.

KosherJava

By: Mike Miller

Mike Miller — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I've been making a bunch of changes to your code, including adding a configuration page and a sunset calculator (to handle evening posts / comments!). I've also added some more formatting options. I've tried to add your link as a trackback, but it appears never to have made it! My main post is here: in the comments section, there are a few trackbacks with some later posts of mine detailing the changes.

By: Chajm

Chajm — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you again…! Interesting that the script does not work again… Somewhere between template’s (I also tried the “default” plugin) and and the hebrew date plugin script something goes wrong. It is hard to track the “bug” (in fact it is not a bug, more a problem of localisation)…

By: KosherJava

KosherJava — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

in the hebrewdate.php file, locate the following line (should be line 44):
$months = array(“january”=>”1″, “february”=>”2″, “march”=>”3″, “april”=>”4″, “may”=>”5″, “june”=>”6″, “july”=>”7″, “august”=>”8″, “september”=>”9″, “october”=>”10″, “november”=>”11″, “december”=>”12″);

and replace the month names with the German ones. You can use the lower case month names.

By: Chajm

Chajm — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry for posting again: There was an error I didn’t noticed because I set up the wordpress blog in August. As long as the english and the german name for the months are the same, everything works fine: August, september but when it comes to “german-only”, the script produces the 1970 thing. May I change the plug-in code to “translate” the script? Maybe that would be the best “workaround”…

By: Chajm

Chajm — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks again … Maybe that’s it… I’ll check the posting regarding an italian version of a website (somewhere on kosherjava). Maybe it helps…

By: KosherJava

KosherJava — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Actually the issue is probably the parsing of the K in Oktober. I will have a look at it later today, but don’t expect a quick turnaround.

By: Chajm

Chajm — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

That was a very fast answer! Thanks!
The thing is: Everything worked fine before october… but I`ll check with the default theme…