PHP convert English date to French date

[shayne54]

What is the correct way to write this code so that the output date is properly formatted for French?

<?php $questiondate = date('F d, Y', strtotime('-1 week')); ?>

This code works correctly for English, but I have searched on here for how to do this in French, and none of the threads I found work when I put them in my code.

I have looked at the other threads, but those answers didn't work for what I am trying to do here, which is output a date that is 1 week in the past in French.

Thanks in advance.

[ginerjm]

Have you read the manual on the date() function?  And read up on what those formatting characters are for?  So simply re-arrange the format chars to get what you want.

Right now you are getting January 01, 1992 out of your date call.  What do the French use for a date?

[shayne54]

Thanks for your reply.

The date in French should be: day name of month year example: 06 juin 2018

I have tried this code:

<?php setlocale (LC_TIME, 'fr_FR.utf8','fra'); ?>
<?php $questiondate = strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime('-1 week')); ?>

But that outputs the month in English ( 26 July 2018 )

 

 

[Barand]

echo date('F d, Y').'<br>';        // Eng

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr-FR');
echo strftime('%B %d, %Y');        // Fr

 

[requinix]

The locale may be a different string than one of the two you're using - you normally need, like, 4 or 5 to be portable across operating systems. But even if you had/have the right one, it also has to be installed on the system for it to work.

IntlDateFormatter would be better. https://3v4l.org/Fguqh