Question

There is something I do not understand with locale management in Symfony2. I want to write month name in French with date Twig method. Is it possible? I can’t do it.

It seems that my locale is not taken into account.

Here is my app/config/config.yml file:

framework:
    #esi:             ~
    translator:      { fallback: fr }
    secret:          %secret%
    charset:         UTF-8
    router:          { resource: "%kernel.root_dir%/config/routing.yml" }
    form:            true
    csrf_protection: true
    validation:      { enable_annotations: true }
    templating:      { engines: ['twig'] } #assets_version: SomeVersionScheme
    session:
        default_locale: fr
        auto_start:     true

Session locale seems good:

echo $this->get('session')->getLocale();  // Returns "fr"
die;

Yet, when I am using, in my view, the following:

<td class="month">{{ history.date|date('F Y') }}</td>

It returns me “July 2011” for instance, instead of “Juillet 2011”.

What am I misunderstanding? Shouldn’t the date filter be localized? If not, how can I do to retrieve correct terms? I used to use I18N to translate all the month names, but I do not think it is the best practice.

Answer 1

date does not return localized string. You have to use strftime for that. Alternatively you can use SonataIntlBundle if you want more control.