PHP API for JAKIM's e-solat

[Hasanuddin Abu Bakar]

Anyone got contact with e-solat developers at http://www.e-solat.gov.my/MainWS.php ?

I like to ask them for PHP API, if any. I can get it done with php-curl but it's better to have an official API for it. I tried to email them but don't get any reply, yet.

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[linuxmalaysia]

Assalamualaikum,

The data maybe load to database like MySQL, prepare earlier by manual
calculation. This isonly my assumption.

You may love this article.

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2956

Using Google MAPS Api or any map api to calculate prayer time. You may
not using it, but formula for calculation is discuss in the article.

4. Prayer times equations are calculated based on Astronomical
Algorithms by Jean Meeus.
For example, to calculate the Fajr prayer time, we use the following
equation:
TF = ACOS ((SIN(-18)-SIN(ASIN(SIN(23.439-0.0000004*D)*SIN(L +1.915*SIN
(M)+0.02*SIN(2*M)))*SIN(Lat))/(COS(ASIN(SIN(23.439-0.0000004*D)
*SIN(L+1.915*SIN(M)+0.02*SIN(2*M)))*COS(Lat)))
Where,
D = ((367*Y)-(INT((7/4)*(Y+INT((M+9)/12))))+INT(275*(M/9))+d-730531.5)
M = 357.528+0.9856003*D

On 3 Jan, 23:08, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar <bizkut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone got contact with e-solat developers athttp://www.e-solat.gov.my/MainWS.php?
> I like to ask them for PHP API, if any. I can get it done with php-curl but
> it's better to have an official API for it. I tried to email them but don't
> get any reply, yet.
>
> Hasanuddin Abu Bakar
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[Hasanuddin Abu Bakar]

Waalaikumussalam

Saya dah cuba tapi ada beberapa perbezaan
umumnya ada 5 cara:

1)Muslim World League
2)Egyptian General Authority of Survey (Malaysia guna yang ni)
3)University Of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
4)Umm Al-Qura
5)ISNA

dan untuk pengiraan waktu asar
1)standard method
2) mazhab hanafi method

dan saya tak pasti JAKIM pakai yang mana. Sebab tu saya minta orang yang tahu/berhubung dengan JAKIM untuk mengesahkan algorithm yang tepat, dan jika pakai database, maka terpaksalah JAKIM sediakan API atau saya tarik pakai curl. API ni boleh dijadikan sebagai module drupal dan joomla.

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[E A Faisal]

As far as I know, JAKIM is using a proper method to calculate. Based from a few articles by "ahlul falak", both within the country and abroad, the "ready-made" algorithm spread across the Internet is not "accurate" enough. There's another variable must be taken into consideration and included in the algorithm and these variable comes from annual astronomical almanac (these figures varies from month to month and are deduced by both observation and calculation as far as I know).

IMHO, it's still best to use JAKIM's takwim (or from jabatan agama) since they have their own falak unit.

[Harisfazillah Jamel]

Yes. I do agree. They may not have the API. We may request sharing of
data to be used. Or we help them to build one.