PHP Date - Get Name of the Months in Local Language

PHP date - get name of the months in local language

You should use setlocale():

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr_FR');
$month_name = date('F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $i));

In this case it would set it to French. For your case it should be one of the following:

1. sr_BA - Serbian (Montenegro)
2. sr_CS - Serbian (Serbia)
3. sr_ME - Serbian (Serbia and Montenegro)

getting always german month-names in PHP

I popose to use this, where you create an own class, that does all the work in the constructor and offers only one simple-to-use function (but still felxible to change the patten)

class Formatter {
    private $dateFormatter;

    public function __construct() {
        $formatter = new \IntlDateFormatter(
            "de-DE",
            \IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM,
            \IntlDateFormatter::MEDIUM,
            "Europe/Berlin");
        $this->dateFormatter = $formatter;
    }

    public function printDate(\DateTime $dateTime, string $pattern = null) {
        if ($pattern) {
            $this->dateFormatter->setPattern($pattern);
        }

        return $this->dateFormatter->format($dateTime);
    }
}

usage

$fmt = new Formatter();
echo $fmt->printDate($now, "d. MMM");

How to display month name in my language

You can use strftime (http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php):

setlocale(LC_TIME, array('ro.utf-8', 'ro_RO.UTF-8', 'ro_RO.utf-8', 'ro', 'ro_RO', 'ro_RO.ISO8859-2')); 

$luna=$_GET['month'];
$an=$_GET['year'];

$dateObj   = DateTime::createFromFormat('!m', $luna);
$monthName = strftime('%B', $dateObj->getTimestamp());
$data='Arhiva '.$monthName.' - '.$an.'';

Best way to translate month names

You can use str_ireplace() with arrays for names in english, and equivalent for names in turkmen, in same order.

Something like this:

$nmeng = array('january', 'february', ..);
$nmtur = array('ocak', 'subat', ...);
$dt = 'September 22, 2012';
$dt = str_ireplace($nmeng, $nmtur, $dt);

PHP Date, International month names?

Use setlocale and strftime to get a localized version of the date string.

Example from PHP Docs - http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php :

/* Set locale to Dutch */
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_NL');

/* Output: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
echo strftime("%A %e %B %Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));

/* try different possible locale names for german as of PHP 4.3.0 */
$loc_de = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
echo "Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";

Name of day/month that's not today in another language in php

Whenever you need to manipulate date/time stamps based on locale, you should use strftime

also change the encoding to utf-8

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

example :

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

$myDate = "Feb 21, 2013";

$locale = 'fr_FR.utf8';
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
echo strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($myDate));  

$locale = 'en_US.utf8';
setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);
echo strftime('%d %B %Y', strtotime($myDate));
?>

Convert number to month name in PHP

The recommended way to do this:

Nowadays, you should really be using DateTime objects for any date/time math. This requires you to have a PHP version >= 5.2. As shown in Glavić's answer, you can use the following:

$monthNum  = 3;
$dateObj   = DateTime::createFromFormat('!m', $monthNum);
$monthName = $dateObj->format('F'); // March

The ! formatting character is used to reset everything to the Unix epoch. The m format character is the numeric representation of a month, with leading zeroes.

Alternative solution:

If you're using an older PHP version and can't upgrade at the moment, you could this solution.
The second parameter of date() function accepts a timestamp, and you could use mktime() to create one, like so:

$monthNum  = 3;
$monthName = date('F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $monthNum, 10)); // March

If you want the 3-letter month name like Mar, change F to M. The list of all available formatting options can be found in the PHP manual documentation.

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