php - can't get date in german language

Question

I try to display a date in German but it doesn\'t work. I\'m using PHP with XAMPP.

These are my approaches:

function get_Datetime_Now() {
setlocale (         


        

Answer 1

You are probably using a windows machine which has different language codes in PHP than a Unix based one.

Try:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE', 'deu_deu');

This will first try to set it to 'de_DE' (Linux/Unix) and have the 'deu_deu' code as a fallback for windows (PHP Version >= 4.3).

Example in the german PHP documentation