How to return a date string in portuguese?

[jordanpope]

I am trying to return a date in the following format:

25 Setembro, 2003, 18:00

I have been trying to use setlocale as follows:

setlocale(LC_TIME, "pt_BR"

And return my date as follows:

$currDate = strftime("%e %B, %Y, %H:%M"

However, all this returns is 25 September, 2003, 18:52 ... where I am attempting to return 25 Setembro, 2003, 18:52 ...

Can someone please help?

 

[sleipnir214]

Does the server on which you're running PHP have the Brazilian Portuguese locale available?

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[jordanpope]

I am running Apache/1.3.26 ... how can I determine if I have the locale available?

 

[sleipnir214]

It's not part of Apache. It's part of your OS.

For example, on Linux there's a directory /usr/share/locale that has locale information in it.

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[DRJ478]

Read:

http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

 

[sleipnir214]

DRJ478:
As far as I can tell, he's invoking setlocale() correctly. The code:

<?php
setlocale(LC_TIME, &quot;pt_BR&quot;);

$currDate = strftime(&quot;%e %B, %Y, %H:%M&quot;);

print $currDate;
?>

Just output "26 setembro, 2003, 12:33" on my machine, a LAMP (RH9/1.3.27/4.0.14/4.33) box. But my LAMP box has a valid directory of /usr/share/locale/pt_BR.

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[DRJ478]

You are right. I skimmed the post - my mistake.
I tried in on my Windows XP machine, no luck.
Worked well on my Linux box, where I have the /usr/share/locale/.
PHP documentation points out for windows users:
Tip: Windows users will find usefull information about locale strings at Microsoft's MSDNwebsite. Supported language strings can be found here and supported country/region strings here. Windows systems support the three letter codes for country/region specified by ISO 3166-Alpha-3, which can be found at this Unicode website.

 

[sleipnir214]

DRJ478:
I don't have PHP installed on Win32.

Could you tell me what happens with strftime() if you invoke set_locale() with a locale code of "bra" instead of "pt_BR"?

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[DRJ478]

sleipnir214
I just tried that and in fact nothing happens. I also tried "brazil". So, I guess then Mi¢ro$oft only takes US$?

 

[sleipnir214]

I'm wondering if Win32 only has locales you've set up. On W2K, for example Control Panel / Regional Settings has all kinds of things to play with.

Or maybe it never occurred to M$'s programmers that someone might need more than one locale at a time.


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