Hoor

Hoor is the Persian word for sun.

Hoor is a command line tool for adding Shamsi date feature to Hugo based websites.

Installation

You can download the latest version of Hoor from Releases page. Also, if you already installed Golang toolchain, you can install hoor by running the following command:

go get github/alireza-ahamdi/hoor

Usage

IMPORTANT NOTE

Current version is the first implementation of this utility, if you want to use it, please make sure that you have a backup of your website first.

Adding Shamsi date to all contents(or changing date format):

cd path/to/your/website
hoor

Adding Shamsi date to a single content:

cd path/to/your/website
hoor -i content/post/foobar.md

After adding Shamsi date to your contents, you can display Shamsi date in your posts by using {{ .Params.shamsidate }} in your templates. The default format of shamsi date is d M yyyy but you can change it by adding shamsiDateFormat configuration option to your website config file.

baseURL = "http://alireza.es"
title = "بلاگ علیرضا احمدی"
theme = "vivid"
...
shamsiDateFormat = "d MMMماه yyyy"
...
[indexes]
   topic = "topics"

These are the available formmating options:

yyyy, yyy, y     year (e.g. 1394)
yy               2-digits representation of year (e.g. 94)
MMM              the Persian name of month (e.g. فروردین)
MMI              the Dari name of month (e.g. حمل)
MM               2-digits representation of month (e.g. 01)
M                month (e.g. 1)
rw               remaining weeks of year
w                week of year
W                week of month
RD               remaining days of year
D                day of year
rd               remaining days of month
dd               2-digits representation of day (e.g. 01)
d                day (e.g. 1)
E                the Persian name of weekday (e.g. شنبه)
e                the Persian short name of weekday (e.g. ش)
A                the Persian name of 12-Hour marker (e.g. قبل از ظهر)
a                the Persian short name of 12-Hour marker (e.g. ق.ظ)
HH               2-digits representation of hour [00-23]
H                hour [0-23]
kk               2-digits representation of hour [01-24]
k                hour [1-24]
hh               2-digits representation of hour [01-12]
h                hour [1-12]
KK               2-digits representation of hour [00-11]
K                hour [0-11]
mm               2-digits representation of minute [00-59]
m                minute [0-59]
ss               2-digits representation of seconds [00-59]
s                seconds [0-59]
ns               nanoseconds
S                3-digits representation of milliseconds (e.g. 001)
z                the name of location
Z                zone offset (e.g. +03:30)

Learn more about formatting options on ptime repository.

Also, if you want to get help about command line options, run the following command:

hoor -h

How it works?

Due to the lack of plugin system in Hugo, there is no way to change date format in the build process. I approached a simple solution for fixing this problem. By running hoor command in your hugo site source code, Hoor will automatically finds all of your posts/pages, read the gregorian date and convert it to a Shamsi(Jalali) date string then add the result to the front matter list. Afterwards, you can use that string as a template variable.

So why shouldn't I generate that string manually, using a simple code editor?

Of course you can write it manually, but applying any change in date format would be a great pain in future, by using Hoor you can change date format of 50+ files in a few seconds while changing them manually would take so much longer. It's all about maintainability.

Issues

Found any issues? Create an issue in the issues page.

TODO

• Add more tests

Credits

Hoor is built upon Hugo and ptime.