PHP Jalali Extension

Jalali extension is a php extension written in C which allows you to format a timestamp by Hejri Date Format or get the timestamp by giving Hejri Dates.

This is simply as fast as date() and mktime() functions.

Installation

Copy the build/jalali.so into the php extensions directory. Then add this line into the php.ini :

extension=jalali.so

Done !

PHP Version

If you are running php on a windows machine when developing or you cannot install the extension for some reason, You can include the php version which exists in php directory. It uses the extension if it existed otherwise It defines the same class in php context.

How to use

Create an object of \Jalali\Date.

$jDate = new \Jalali\Date();

You can format the date by calling $jDate::date. The function covers all of the native date() function literals.

$jDate->date("l jS F Y");
// Output: دوشنبه بیست و یکم مهر 1393

And Also You can get the timestamp of a date time.

$jDate->mktime(15, 45, 0, 7, 21, 1393);

Benchmark

As you know calculating Hejri Date from a timestamp includes of a lot of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, so it increases cpu cycles.

This is the fastest class ever known in php to do that !

We compare the extension with sallar/jDateTime so that we do the same date("Y m d l s f") action with both classes 100,000 times.

I ran the script on an ubuntu 14.04 machine with php5.5 installed and enabled opcache.

$phpJDate = new jDateTime();
$extJDate = new \Jalali\Date();

$phpTime = 0;
$extTime = 0;

$time = time();
for($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
    $start = microtime(true);
    $phpJDate->date("Y m d l s f");
    $phpTime += microtime(true) - $start;

    $start = microtime(true);
    $extJDate->date("Y m d l s f");
    $extTime += microtime(true) - $start;
}

var_dump($phpTime, $extTime);

And the result is :

18.459370851517 seconds for sallar/jDateTime
5.1387049674988 seconds for mohebifar/php-jalali-extension