Why wont php show local weekday

Question

Why cant I get the weekdays in danish (mandag, tirsdag...) when I get the date from MySQL?

$Weekday = date('l', strtotime($Date));

echo " - $Weekday";

I have tryed to set locale settings, but it dosn't work? It only returns in english.

Answer 1

The locale does not affect date() function, you should use strftime() and set the locale like this:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'Portuguese');
echo strftime('%A');

Other options are:

gmstrftim

Carbon lib

IntlDateFormatter