Script to find out the name of the parsha

[sammy ominsky]

On 28/04/2010, at 09:47, David Suna wrote:

> Does anyone know of a script (preferably in PHP) that given a date will return the name of the parsha (torah portion) for that week?

hebcal.  There's an interactive web version available at http://hebcal.com/ and packages available for all linux distributions and OS X.  Probably windows too.

It's not a php script, but you can call it from within php.  The man page will give you the flags you need to get just the parsha.

--sambo