MENOLOGION
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FOR THE WEBMASTER
- Menologion on your site
Online Menologion on your site
We are pleased to offer our Menologion on your site users the new Menologion 2.0 Beta. There is no action required on your part. The menologion has been rolled over to the new version as of Friday, March 20, 2009.
I invite Orthodox webmasters to use the Menologion on your site service to add an English-langauge calendar to the site. This service is perfect for churches, information portals, and even personal blogs. The service provides calendar information, daily Scripture readings, and links to lives of the saints and the Prologue from Ohrid. The service requires minimal maintenance and programming.
Menologion on your site is provided in partnership with days.pravoslavie.ru, which provides this service in Russian. Unlike our competition, canto.ru, the service is fully configurable and perpetual. Additionally, as the Ponomar project expands, you will be able to take advantage of additional services offered by Ponomar.
Who is using Menologion on your site? Click here to see real-time statistics
Rules
NOTICE: This material is provided for use to Orthodox webmasters on websites of the Orthodox Church. For our purposes, an entity is part of the Orthodox Church if it maintains communion with one of the 14 autocephalous churches. The use of this content on websites of schismatic entities or other organizations claiming to be "orthodox" is prohibited. We reserve the right to ban websites for any reason, at any time, and without any explanation.
This service is provided free of charge. However, a tax-deductible donation toward the building of an Orthodox Church in North Carolina would be greatly appreciated. You may donate securely online by visiting this page: Network for Good.
Alternatively, you may send cheques made out to Holy Trinity Orthodox Church to:
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church
Attn: Secretary
209 Chesapeake Way
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Write: For Online Menologion Service on your cheque.
The Fancy Legal Stuff
Menologion on your site is provided in AS-IS condition. The software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, not even the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. By installing the service on your site, you agree that in no event will Ponomar Technologies, Inc. be liable to any party (i) for any direct, indirect, special, punitive or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of programs or information, and the like), or any other damages arising in any way out of the availability, use, reliance on, or inability to use this service even if Ponomar Technologies, Inc. has been advised of the possibility of such damages, and regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise; or (ii) for any claim attributable to errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in, or destructive properties of any information provided by this service or any of its associated documents, diagrams, images, or data.
Privacy Notice: Ponomar Technologies, Inc. reserves the right to collect certain information from users of the Menologion on your site service. The information we collect includes: the address of the webpage from which you are calling the script, the date and time of the call, and the IP address and browser / operating system of the visitor to your website making this call. This information is used exclusively for quality assurance and statistical purposes. We do not release this information to third parties for any reason.
Instructions: Simple Usage (no programming)
In the required place on your web page, place the following command:
<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript"
Src="http://www.ponomar.net/cgi-bin/julian.cgi?mode=simple"></SCRIPT>
Result:
Localization (foreign language support)
You may obtain Menologion in other languages by setting the LS flag:
<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript"
Src="http://www.ponomar.net/cgi-bin/julian.cgi?LS=x"></SCRIPT>
where x is a language code. Use 0 for English (default), 1 for French, and 3 for Russian.
Advanced Usage (limited programming)
For advenced usage and greater configurability, place the following in the <HEAD> section of your document:
<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript"
Src="http://www.ponomar.net/cgi-bin/julian.cgi"></SCRIPT>
Then, you can access any of the following commands from Menologion on your website.
Command |
Result |
| printDateDefault() | |
| printPaschalCycle() | |
| printSaints() | |
| printReadings() | |
| <A Href="JavaScript:doSaintsLink();">click here to get lives of saints</A>. | click here to get lives of saints |
| printIcon() |
To call any of these commands, just insert them into a script tag. Example:
| Code | Result |
| <SCRIPT Language="JavaScript"> printSaints(); </SCRIPT> |
Alternatively, you may use the global variables of the menologion to gain even greater configuration ability.
Variable |
Description |
Example of Variable Data |
| old_calendar | Today's date on the Old Calendar | |
| new_calendar | Today's date on the New Calendar | |
| x_year | Today's year (Anno Domini) | |
| ad_creatio | Today's year from the Creation of the World (Anno Mundi) | |
| n_day | Today's day (old calendar) | |
| n_month | One less than today's month (old calendar) (Because arrays start from 0) | |
| w_day | Today's day of the week | |
| m_saints | Listing of the day's saints | |
| paschalcycle | Feast on the Pentecost cycle (if any) | |
| readings | Scripture readings | |
| fastinfo | Fasting regulations |
To print a variable, just call a command like this:
| Command | Result |
| <SCRIPT Language="JavaScript"> document.write(w_day); </SCRIPT> |
Technical note: you must convert variables to Integers before doing math operations. E.g.:
var int_day = new Number(n_day);
new_calendar_day = int_day + 13;
Running n_day + 13 will give you a string like '2513'
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Is Menologion available on the new calendar?
A: No.
Q: Can I get access to the source XML files?
A: You can download the Ponomar software package and use the source XML files available there in any way you wish (under the terms of the GNU General Public License). They are usually not as up-to-date as the source files for the Online Menologion, however, so be warned that there may be many typos. If there is a specific reason why you feel that you need dynamic access to the raw XML files on our server in real time, you should contact me and explain what exactly you are trying to do.