Question

We have two websites using the same MqSQL database. One in English the other in Czech. We use dates which are shown in the database as 2011-01-22 for example. When called via PHP the format is displayed as: 22 Jan, 2011. That’s fine for our English website but we need the Czech version to show for our Czech pages. Any ideas how to change how the date is parsed? Many thanks.

Answer 1

You need to use setlocale() function in PHP. Try this:

<?php
SetLocale(LC_ALL, "Czech");
$datum = StrFTime("%d %B, %Y");
echo($datum);
?>

The code above prints “22 leden, 2012”, just like your English date format.