PHP's date & time localization


<?

error_reporting(E_ALL);



$standard = strftime('%A %e %B %Y', time());



//Dutch

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl_NL');

$dutch = strftime('%A %e %B %Y', time());



//German:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE');

$german = strftime('%A %e %B %Y', time());



//French:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr_FR');

$french = strftime('%A %e %B %Y', time());



//Swedish:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'swedish');

$swedish = strftime('%A %e %B %Y', time());



//Finnish:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fi_FI');

$finnish = strftime('%A %e %B %Y', time());

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html lang="en">

<head>

    <title>PHP's date & time localization</title>

    

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

    

    <script type="text/javascript">

        window.onload = function()

            {

                document.getElementById('source').style.display = 'none'

                document.getElementById('toggle_source').onclick = function()

                    {

                        if (document.getElementById('source').style.display == 'none')

                            {

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                                document.getElementById('source').style.display = 'block';

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                        else

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                                this.firstChild.nodeValue = 'Show source';

                                document.getElementById('source').style.display = 'none';

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    </script>

    

    <style type="text/css">

        body {

          font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;

          font-size: 10pt;

          color: #000;

          background: #FFF;

        }

        

        p#toggle_source {

          text-decoration: underline;

          color: #00F;

          cursor: pointer;

        }

    </style>

</head>



<body>

    <h1>PHP's date & time localization</h1>

        <p>It's not possible to localize the output of <a href="http://www.php.net/date">the date() function</a>,

         you need to use the <a href="http://www.php.net/strftime">strftime()</a> function.

         <ul>

            <li><a href="http://www.php.net/setlocale">setlocale()</a></li>

            <li><a href="http://www.php.net/strftime">strftime()</a></li>

            <li><a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1766">RFC1766</a></li>

            <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm">ISO639</a></li>

        </ul>

            

    

    <h2>Standard (english)</h2>

        <p><?=htmlentities($standard);?></p>

        

    <h2>Dutch</h2>

        <p><?=htmlentities($dutch);?></p>

        

    <h2>German</h2>

        <p><?=htmlentities($german);?></p>

        

    <h2>French</h2>

        <p><?=htmlentities($french);?></p>



    <h2>Swedish</h2>

        <p><?=htmlentities($swedish);?></p>

        

    <h2>Finnish</h2>

        <p><?=htmlentities($finnish);?></p>

        

    <h2>Source</h2>

        <p id="toggle_source">Show source</p>

        

    <div id="source">

        <?=highlight_file(__FILE__);?>

    </div>

</body>

</html>