phpBB mod Hijri Date 2.0.23

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phpBB 2.0.23 mod: Hijri Date

This mod adds the Islamic Hijri Date on the Forum index, showing below Forum Time.

I had longed tried to find a good php script that shows the Islamic Hijri Date (also known as Islami Date or Muslim Calendar Hijri Date). Fortunately, I found an excellent script available at Usayd Networks. One reason for finding it was that I was using javascript to show hijri date on phpBB forum, from a website that seemed to have gone offline since last week. So I came across Usayd Network's script. And upon contacting them, Usayd has been kind enough to direct me to the script download. And he also has been very helpful in approving the script and infact approving and including GNU GPL licence details for it as well. I moulded this to fit the phpBB template system, and so here is the modification or hack which can be used to display the Hijri date on phpBB forums.

Here is a screenshot of what the mod does:



I will only help, support and answer questions related to installing this mod with phpBB forums and all questions related to script functionality should be directed to Usayd Networks as they probably wrote the original calculations for the hijridate.php script. The hijridate.php script included with this mod is released under the GNU GPL.

Update Notes:
## 2008-02-24 - Version 2.0.23
## - Verified to work with phpBB 2.0.23
## - To decrease memory & processor load, script call moved from includes/page_header.php to index.php
## - Reason: Since script only displays date on index page, page_header was calling it on every pageload
## - I will leave a copy of phpBB 2.0.22 version available, as that still works ok for phpBB 2.0.23

Thanks

Khurram