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strtotime With Different Languages?
Get list of localized months

I get the date time out of my database and format it like so:

$row['datetime'] = date('jS F Y',strtotime($row['datetime']));

This will put in a format:

28th March 2012

How can I localise the names of the months, so for french users it would display Mars instead of March?

Thanks

Answer 1

Use setlocale and strftime to get a localized version of the date string.

Example from PHP Docs – http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php :

/* Set locale to Dutch */
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL');

/* Output: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
echo strftime("%A %e %B %Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));

/* try different possible locale names for german as of PHP 4.3.0 */
$loc_de = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
echo "Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";