sdo-sa/hijri-converter

Accurate Hijri (Umm al-Qura) ⇄ Gregorian date conversion for PHP, with optional Laravel support.

v1.0.0 2026-06-23 11:55 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2

Requires (Dev)

• nesbot/carbon: ^3.0
• orchestra/testbench: ^9.0
• pestphp/pest: ^3.0

Suggests

• illuminate/support: Enables the Laravel service provider and Hijri facade.
• nesbot/carbon: Enables Gregorian::toCarbon() and Carbon::toHijri() macros.

MIT

• date
• calendar
• laravel
• gregorian
• hijri
• islamic
• umm-al-qura

README

Accurate Hijri (Umm al-Qura) ⇄ Gregorian date conversion for PHP.

• Exact conversions backed by the official Umm al-Qura month-start table — not arithmetic approximations.
• One class to remember: SDOSA\Hijri with ::toHijri() and ::toGregorian().
• Localized names in Arabic, English, Bengali, and Turkish out of the box.
• Zero required dependencies. Optional first-class Laravel support.
• Supported span: Gregorian 1924-08-01 → 2077-11-16, Hijri 1343 → 1500.

Installation

composer require sdo-sa/hijri-converter

Requires PHP 8.2+.

Usage

Everything goes through the single static class SDOSA\Hijri — same in plain PHP or Laravel:

use SDOSA\Hijri;

$h = Hijri::toHijri('1982-12-02');     // accepts string, DateTime, or Carbon
echo $h->toIso();                      // 1403-02-17
echo $h->format();                     // 17/02/1403
echo $h->monthName();                  // صفر   (default locale is "ar")
echo $h->monthName('en');              // Safar
echo $h->dayName();                    // الخميس

$g = Hijri::toGregorian('1403-02-17'); // accepts string or HijriDate
echo $g->toIso();                      // 1982-12-02

Hijri::today();                        // HijriDate

Conversions return small immutable value objects — SDOSA\HijriDate and SDOSA\GregorianDate — which carry the rich API (format, monthName, dayName, notation, weekday, toCarbon, compareTo, …). You can also construct them directly:

use SDOSA\HijriDate;
use SDOSA\GregorianDate;

(new GregorianDate(1982, 12, 2))->toHijri();
(new HijriDate(1403, 2, 17))->toGregorian();

Out-of-range or impossible dates throw SDOSA\Exceptions\DateOutOfRange, InvalidHijriDate, or InvalidGregorianDate (all extend HijriException).

Locales

Four locales are bundled: ar (default), en, bn (Bengali), tr (Turkish).

Pass a tag explicitly to any name method:

use SDOSA\Hijri;

Hijri::toHijri('2024-03-11')->monthName('tr');  // Ramazan
Hijri::toHijri('2024-03-11')->monthName('bn');  // রমজান

Or change the default used when no tag is passed. In plain PHP:

use SDOSA\Locales\LocaleRegistry;

LocaleRegistry::setDefault('en');

In Laravel, set it in config/hijri.php (or the HIJRI_LOCALE env var) — the service provider applies it on boot.

Laravel

The service provider is auto-discovered. The core API is static, so there is no facade to register — just call SDOSA\Hijri anywhere. The provider adds config, the default-locale wiring, and Carbon macros.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=hijri-config

use SDOSA\Hijri;
use Carbon\Carbon;

Hijri::toHijri(Carbon::now());     // accepts Carbon / DateTime
Carbon::now()->toHijri();          // HijriDate (macro)
Carbon::now()->hijriFormat('-');   // e.g. 01-09-1445 (macro)

Credits

The Umm al-Qura dataset and conversion algorithm derive from dralshehri/hijridate (MIT). See LICENSE.