Online Menologion service on your site

ONLINE MENOLOGION SERVICE

MENOLOGION A perpetual calendar of the Orthodox Church

Menologion does not provide detailed service instructions. For detailed information, please use the standalone Ponomar program.

MENOLOGION
- Today's Menologion
- Tomorrow's Menologion
PASCHALION
LECTIONARY
- Scripture Readings
FOR THE WEBMASTER
- Menologion on your site

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.

The menologion is provided to Orthodox webmasters. While I cannot control the distribution of online content, I kindly request that you do NOT install and use the service on schismatic websites or sites providing content unrelated to the Church.
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
c/o Alex Primak, Starosta
608 Sutter Gate Ln
Morrisville, NC 27560

Write: For Online Menologion Service on your cheque.
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:

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 (EXPERIMENTAL)

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'

To obtain a menologion for any day (instead of for today), specify the month, day, and year variables in the query string. (Note that months start with January at 1, days start at 1, and years are AD). For example, this will give a menologion for February 2, 2008:


<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript"
Src="http://www.ponomar.net/cgi-bin/julian.cgi?mode=simple&month=2&day=2&year=2008"></SCRIPT>

Results:

A few notes on this usage: note that all dates are on the Julian calendar. Note, also, that the icon of the day service is not available for this option (it will still output today's icon). Note, finally, that if a .year file has not been generated for the year you request, the call will fail. If this happens, go to the calendar control and input the year you need. This will generate the necessary .year file. (An overhaul of this program is in progress, and, once completed, will mean that .year files are no longer necessary. Please be patient.)

Please note: The new calendar menologion service has been deprecated and is no longer provided or supported.