Home · Simon Holywell on Simon Holywell · Jul 20, 2015
PHP date localisation with setlocale
0Sign in to vote or save
This site does not allow itself to be embedded. You can still read it on the original site — the toolbar below keeps your place in the directory.
Localising sites can be a chore, but PHP has the venerable setlocale() to use system locales. These are like templates or profiles that describe how various types of data should be displayed. Should a price have a comma or point to indicate the decimals? When printing a date should PHP output Monday or Montag? All of these considerations are locale specific and they map to a geographical area.…
Comments
Nothing yet. Say the first thing.
Sign in to join the conversation.