Thread: PHP - date() function in French?

Hi everyone,

I added the date() function in my site to display current date, but by default, the date shown is in English. Does anybody know how to modify this date() function in order to display it into another language, notably French?
Thanks so much in advance.

Herman

You would need to change the locale (in the same page where you have the date function). Look at www.php.net

Hi Naval,

Thanks so much!

I looked at PHP.net and was able to come up with this code for my date:

PHP Code:

<?php
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR');

echo strftime("%A %e %B %Y");
?>

It displays the current time in French, exactly what I wanted. But my concern is to know whether this current time will change daily as it does with date("d/m/Y") function. Will the script update itself tomorrow and any other day? Do they have to work together? If so, I am afraid I don't know how to work with both date() and setlocale() in a same script. Will you help me with that, please?
A million thank yous in advance!

Herman

It will stay updated with the current day. The one thing you might have to worry about is the difference between the server time and your local time.

There is a second parameter to the function where you can insert a timestamp.

You can do something like

PHP Code:

echo strftime("%A %e %B %Y", time()+#); 


Replacing # with some type of offset to adjust the time to your timezone.

Hello Watdaflip,

Thanks for the warning. But what can "#" possibly be in the second parameter of strftime()? My local time zone is the US Central Time (therefore -006 UTC).
Any idea how I could reformat strftime() based on this factor?
I am very limited knowledge of PHP, so please go easy on me in your explanations Thanks so much for your help,

Herman

# = number in seconds, being that the time difference between your time and the GMT.