PHP day of week numeric to day of week text not English

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I tried to use setlocale() function on windows to convert days name in other language but it didn't work.

<?php setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL'); 
echo date("l", strtotime($variable); ?>

does anybody have an alternative for setlocale()? I use the Codeigniter framework.

possible duplicate of [Unicode setlocale and strftime fails at windows](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2197168/unicode-setlocale-and-strftime-fails-at-windows) - you didn't share which of the two causes were your actual problem: wrong locale name *or* using `date` *or* both. Please share what helped with your issue. — hakre, Dec 21 '12 at 15:15

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 21 '12 at 10:25

You should consider using the extension intl which has IntlDateFormatter.

From the documentation:

$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter( "en_US" ,IntlDateFormatter::FULL,IntlDateFormatter::FULL,'America/Los_Angeles',IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN  );
echo "First Formatted output is ".$fmt->format(0);
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter( "de-DE" ,IntlDateFormatter::FULL,IntlDateFormatter::FULL,'America/Los_Angeles',IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN  );
echo "Second Formatted output is ".$fmt->format(0);

which output

First Formatted output is Wednesday, December 31, 1969 4:00:00 PM PT
Second Formatted output is Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 1969 16:00 Uhr GMT-08:00

Pattern based formatting shown in a similar question: [Localized (short) month names using IntlDateFormatter in PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/13992296/367456) — hakre, Dec 21 '12 at 16:19

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '12 at 10:23

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nl_NL is a typical Unix style locale name. On Windows, locales follow a different format. You want "nld", "holland", or "netherlands".

Additionally, date() is not locale-aware. You probably want strftime().

answered Dec 21 '12 at 10:23

Álvaro González

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 21 '12 at 10:23

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date does not format dates according to locale. strftime does.

answered Dec 21 '12 at 10:23

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 21 '12 at 10:30

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setlocale(LC_ALL, 'german');
echo (iconv('ISO-8859-2', 'UTF-8', strftime('%Y. %B %d. (%A)', mktime('0', '0', '0', '6', '18', '2010'))));

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'hungarian');
echo (iconv('ISO-8859-2', 'UTF-8', strftime('%Y. %B %d. (%A)', mktime('0', '0', '0', '6', '18', '2010'))));

answered Dec 21 '12 at 10:30

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May you explain what the `iconv` is for here? – deceze Dec 21 '12 at 10:33

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 19 '13 at 17:01

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You can use strftime for local date:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'it_IT');
$timestamp = strtotime("31-12-2012");
echo strftime("%A", $timestamp);

answered Jun 19 '13 at 17:01

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PHP day of week numeric to day of week text not English

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