note 59992 added to function.date

A Date Function Respecting Setlocale If you are programming for a user language different from english you may end up in perfect looking applications, spotted with some english time texts like "Tue" from the date function. Alas date doesn't respect the setlocale, but strftime does. For allowing the more user-friendly formatting of date() in an international environment i wrote this date replacement which uses strftime to support the rest of the world. <?php function localdate($format="",$unixdate="") {#a date function respecting the setlocale settings if ($unixdate=="")$unixdate=time(); $hideaway=array( 'D',# #Mon through Sun 'l',# (lowercase 'L') Sunday through Saturday 'F',# January through December 'M',# Jan through Dec ); $bringback=array( '%a',# Mon through Sun '%A',# Sunday through Saturday '%B',# January through December '%b',# Jan through Dec ); $placeholder=array('%1','%2','%3','%4'); $format=str_replace($hideaway,$placeholder,$format); #prevent date from translating to english $ret=date($format,$unixdate); #use date if(strpos($ret,'%')===false) return $ret; #no placeholder,so no english text, so finished $ret=str_replace($placeholder,$bringback,$ret); #prepare for action of strftime return strftime($ret,$unixdate); #have the rest done by strftime } ?> Just set your LC_TIME to the desired language like <?php setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE');#Zeit bitte auf deutsch ?> in your configuration, where you preset the desired date-formatting string in the easier date syntax. I hope I'll never again have to code arrays with the names of the weekday-names again. And some other PHP fellows too. regards Ingo ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59992 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59992&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59992&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59992&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59992&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59992&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59992&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59992&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59992&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php