Date

[fesan]

Hi...

 

Can i somehow change the output of php using code under?

I would like the output to be in Norwegian. (Monday = Mandag)

 

date('l', strtotime($row['dato'])

[Scott_S]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

[fesan]

Thanks...

I might be using it wrong, but adding setlocale(LC_ALL, 'no_NO'); did not do the trick.

I'm not sure if the host has installed the Norwegian language but it is a Norwegian host with it's servers located in Norway.

 

On top of my index i added setlocale(LC_ALL, 'no_NO'); as the first PHP code.

Also tested to add it just to the code where i want it to effect...

[salathe]

The date function does not change its output based on the locale, for that you want strftime.

 

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'no_NO');
echo strftime('%A %e %B', strtotime('2012-10-29'));
// mandag 29 oktober

[fesan]

ahhh.... thanks!!

it appears my host doesn't have Norwegian installed.

 

<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'no_NO');
echo strftime('%A %e %B', strtotime('2012-10-29'));
?>

 

Result: Monday 29 October

[salathe]

If you have access to a command line on the server, run locale -a. It could be that the locale is named slightly differently, or you can generate that locale. If you don't have access to check/generate it yourself, I don't see why the host wouldn't be happy to do it for you.

[Christian F.]

Should the host refuse to install Norwegian locale support, for whatever silly reason (those non-vikings ), then you can use the following code to automatically translate it for you:

$days ('monday' => 'Mandag',
   'tuesday' => 'Tirsdag',
   'wednesday' => 'Onsdag',
   'thursday' => 'Torsdag',
   'friday' => 'Fredag',
   'saturday' => 'Lørdag',
   'sunday' => 'Søndag');
$date = str_ireplace (array_keys ($days), array_values ($days), $date);

[ignace]

setlocale returns false when it can't set a certain locale. You can also pass multiple possibilities. Try:

 

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'no_NO', 'no', 'nor', /* Windows: */ 'Norwegian_Norway.1252', /* Use the system locale */ '') or exit('locale does not exist');

Edited October 28, 2012 by ignace

[johnnyd1963]

or use

 

$rss = $row['dato'];
$dayNamesb = array("søndag", "mandag", "tirsdag", "onsdag",
"torsdag", "fredag", "lørdag");
$monthNamesb = array("januar", "februar", "mars", "april", "mai", "juni",
"juli", "august", "september", "oktober", "november",
"desember");
$dato = $dayNamesb[date('w', strtotime($rss))] . ", " . date('d', strtotime($rss)) . " " .
$monthNamesb[(date('m', strtotime($rss))-1)] . " " . date('Y', strtotime($rss));

echo $dato;

 

this wil give you something like søndag 29 oktober 2012

Edited October 28, 2012 by johnnyd1963

[Barand]

It would be a lot easier just to extend Christian's array to include month names.

[fesan]

Wow... Great guys! I'm gonna try to log inn to the shell and see if there is a other name etc.

Thanks for all the help!!

[silkfire]

fesan you have to try all possible locale strings until you're successful. The standard NO_no rarely works.

 

"Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway.1252" or "norwegian-nynorsk" or "no_NO.UTF-8"

 

or

 

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'no_NO.ISO8859-1', 'nb_NO.ISO-8859-1', 'no', 'nb', 'nob-NO', 'no_NO', 'nb_NO', 'nor', 'norwegian', 'bokmal');

 

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Edited October 29, 2012 by silkfire

[Christian F.]

I'd recommend sticking to the UTF-8 charsets, and not the old ISO-8859 based ones. Saves you from having to re-encode everything generated by PHP's date/time functions.