Date Function with multiple languages

yorktown

I have a website that is in German, French, Italian, Spanish and English.

The $date() or $mktime() functions result in numerical dates or text dates in English.

How do I get the results in other languages.

Ex: mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m"), date("d"), date("y"));

date("l F N Y", date());

will result in Friday May 23 2008

but I want this in French :

Vendredi Mai 23 2008

or Italian, or German, etc.

How do I do this?

Marc

leatherback

I am not sure, but I am afraid you might have to write your own parser for this..

yorktown

OK. so something like:

$Month=date("F", date());

switch ($Month) {
case "May":
$FrenchMonth="Mai";
$ItalianMonth="Maggio";
break;
case "June":
$FrenchMonth="Juin";
$ItalianMonth="Giugno";
break;
}

echo "$FrenchMonth $day $year";

Mai 23 2008

Seems like alot of coding. PHP doesn't have languages other than English for basic stuff?

leatherback

Welll.. You could just make a simple array:

$days = array(
'Monday'=>array(
'fr'=> 'lunes',
'Du'=> 'Maandag'),
'Tuesday'=> array(
//etc

And do the same for the month. You could then write a little function that uses these arrays to get the days etc, and then parse in the format you want using

echo$day[$thisdaystring][$thislanguage].", ".$month[$thisdaystring][$thislanguage];

possible combined with a switch with a case for each language in which you define which format to use. Would only have to be a 10 line function + 2 arrays..

yorktown

OK. So what happens in this situation:

http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10355156

When the date is "July 31- August 1 2008"

The extra month is inserted.

How would you do this in the array in other languages?

NogDog

Use [man]setlocale/man to specify the language, then [man]strftime/man instead of date().