Date Translation

[gimi37]

Hi there,

I was wonderin if there is a way to translate the date output ex. "Monday July 12, 2007" to "E Hene Qershor 12, 2007"

Thanks in advance

[pete_bisby]

Use the setlocale() function to set the locale information:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

[Installer]

Get the timestamp with strtotime() (be sure the input string is correct; e.g. July 12, 2007 is a Thursday, not Monday) or mktime(). Then use setlocale(), as Pete said, for your appropriate locale/language (Albanian?). Then strftime() should give you the correct output, although whether it does or not will depend on your os and what is installed with it.

Here's a test script for a Windows server:

$eng_date = 'Monday June 11, 2007';
$locales = array('albanian', 'italian', 'finnish',
                 'korean', 'icelandic', 'russian',
                 'chinese', 'czech', 'usa');

// Uncomment the next line to prevent an erroneous dow from screwing things up.
//$eng_date = ltrim(strstr($eng_date, ' '));  

$ts = strtotime($eng_date);
echo $eng_date . '<br />--------------<br />';
foreach ($locales as $locale) {
    echo $locale . '<br />';
    echo 'Locale: ';
    if ($lc = setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale)) {
        echo $lc . '<br />';
        echo strftime('%A %B %d, %Y', $ts) . '<br />';
        echo 'Local format: ' . strftime('%c', $ts) . '<br /><br />';
    } else {
        echo 'Not set.' . '<br /><br />';
    }
}

[Weedpacket]

If the system itself doesn't know what days and months are named and strftime() fails, then an alternative is to get the numeric values (date('w')=4 for Thursday, date('n')=7 for July) from the timestamp produced by strtotime(), and use a couple of arrays to relate those numbers to the right names.