Miscellaneous Hacks - Glorious Qur'an

As-Salamu 'Alaykum (peace be upon you)

What is Qur'an? Muslims believe that the Qur'an is words of God which He revealed to His last Prophet and Messenger, Muhammad (peace be upon him).

This mod will be further updated and supported in 3.8 section, here

I've decided to share this mod upon the request of few users. This mod should work on 3.7 and 3.6. I don't know about 3.5 or lower versions.

Mod Description: This mod lets the users on your board read the Glorious Qur'an in Arabic and interpretation of the meaning in 25 different languages.

You can find the readme file in the attached file and vbseo version can also be found in the attached file.

Install time: approx 2-3 mins.
Manual Template Edits: 2
Settings: 2[/b]

Demo Link: http://www.islamic-life.com/forums/quran/

FAQ

Question: Can you please translate this mod in language "A"?
Answer: This mod contains 25 different languages: Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Brazilian, Dutch, 3 English, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Malaysian, Mexican, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Transliteration, Turkish, 2 Urdu. So, please do not request for a language if it can be found in this list.

Mod History:

Version 1.0
-Display the Qur'an in Arabic and English interpretation of the meaning (by Imam Pickthall - May Allah have mercy on him).
-Longer Surahs are handled in multiple pages
-Jump to a Surah functionality

Version 1.05
-Display Arabic text in charset UTF-8 instead of windows-1256
-Fixed bug: WOL (Who's online) not showing Surah's name

Version 1.05a
-Fixed Bug: incorrect database table name

Version 1.25
-Fixed SQL Injection and XSS flaws
-Added meaning of the Qur'aan in 24 different languages and 28 in total
-Added 2 Setting options
- Set default language for your forum
- Set number of ayaat to display on one page
-Added Different Colours for some of the languages
-User's selection of different languages is handled using AJAX

-Known Bugs and Limitations
- The Qur'aan (Arabic text) is fixed as default.
- Weird character maybe displayed for some of the languages
- Multiple Page selection destroys the use of AJAX; so users have to reselect the languages
if they were viewing the meaning of the Qur'aan in non-default languages.

Standing Features:

1 - Search
[s]2 - More languages[/s]
[s]3 - More English interpretations[/s]
4 - MP3 Recitations for each Surah by known Qaris
5 - Display text between two ayaat upon users' selection
6 - Allow users to set number of ayaat to display on one page
7 - Add Bangla and Chinese languages

This is brought to you by islamic-life.com and please click on install if you install this mod. Jazak Allah khair (May Allah grant you goodness) and have a good Ramadan!

[rizelim]

Thank you ! Turkish languages where and bug

[msalman]

^you need to change the html character set to windows-1256. Follow the last step in the readme.text file.

[blueberry]

Thanks alot... this is a great hack...

Jazak Allah khair

Ramadan Mubarak for all!!!

[apiasto]

working fine thnx and would love to have translation in urdu .is it possible?

[msalman]

^Barakh Allahu feeka, I'm going to try to add the massive language pack on the coming weekend, insha'Allah.

good news everyone, I got my hands on utf-8 Arabic text so the new change will be up very soon so as a result windows-1256 will not be supported anymore.

[Veer]

Originally Posted by msalman

^Barakh Allahu feeka, I'm going to try to add the massive language pack on the coming weekend, insha'Allah.

good news everyone, I got my hands on utf-8 Arabic text so the new change will be up very soon so as a result windows-1256 will not be supported anymore.

Very Good, Let me check it out

[Veer]

After update, there is nothing, just empty everything, No Aayat and No Soorah.

[Megatr0n]

Originally Posted by Pehchaan

After update, there is nothing, just empty everything, No Aayat and No Soorah.

Same here.

[msalman]

^hmm...could you please post a screen shot? Are you sure that you ran the quran_install.php and changed the charset to UTF-8?

[Megatr0n]

Originally Posted by msalman

^hmm...could you please post a screen shot? Are you sure that you ran the quran_install.php and changed the charset to UTF-8?

Tried both. No cigar.