Question

I am using Codeigniter! What will be the best way to translate month names. I have a date in mysql timestamp like this:
2012-09-22 11:21:53
I can convert it to 'September 22, 2012' with php date() function. I want to rename 'September' to 'Sentýabr'. Can set_locale() function can do this. By the way it is Turkmen Language.
thank you.

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OK , i created some php file to check it indivudally like this:

cool.php

<?php setlocale(LC_ALL,'ru_RU');
echo strftime('%B',time());
?>

Returns September. What might be the problem.

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I have

  /* Set locale to Turkmen */
  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'tk');

And

  echo strftime( '%B',time());

Result: returns September

I need it return September in my language

Answer 1

You can use str_ireplace() with arrays for names in english, and equivalent for names in turkmen, in same order.

Something like this:

$nmeng = array('january', 'february', ..);
$nmtur = array('ocak', 'subat', ...);
$dt = 'September 22, 2012';
$dt = str_ireplace($nmeng, $nmtur, $dt);