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- Using Text Within date()
- Automatically Localizing Dates
- Manually Localizing Dates
- Using the Current Date the U.S./U.K./European Way
- Formatting a Specific Date
- Validating a Date
- Calculating a Relative Date
- Creating a Sortable Time Stamp
- Converting a String into a Date
- Determining Sunrise and Sunset
- Using Date and Time for Benchmarks
- Using Form Fields for Date Selection
- Create Self-updating Form Fields for Date Selection
- Calculating the Difference Between Two Dates
- Using GMT Date/Time Information
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Manually Localizing Dates
If you cannot rely on setlocale(), yet want to use localized date and time values, you have to do the translations by yourself and store the results in an array. Then, you can use date() to retrieve information about a date. This serves as an index for your array.
<?php $weekdays = array( ‘domingo‘, ‘lunes‘, ‘martes‘, ‘miércoles‘, ‘jueves‘, ‘viernes‘, ‘sábado‘ ); $months = array( ‘enero‘, ‘febrero‘, ‘marzo‘, ‘abril‘, ‘mayo‘, ‘junio‘, ‘julio‘, ‘agosto‘, ‘septiembre‘, ‘octubre‘, ‘noviembre‘, ‘diciembre‘ ); $weekday = date(‘w‘); $month = date(‘n‘); echo $weekdays[$weekday] . date(‘, j ‘) . $months[$month - 1] . date(‘ Y‘); ?>
Localizing Dates Manually (localdate.php)
The preceding code does this for both the day of the month and the month itself. One array contains the Spanish weekdays; another one contains the month names.
Note that the value for the month is decreased by 1 because the array $months has no dummy element at position 0; therefore, month number one (January) has the index 0.