PHP date - get name of the months in local language

Question

I have this part of the function, which gives me name of the months in English. How can I translate them to my local language (Serbian)?

$month_name = date(\         


        

Answer 1

You should use setlocale() and strftime():

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'sr_CS');
$month_name = strftime('%B', mktime(0, 0, 0, $i));

Answer 2

For all who struggle with German (and de_DE), make sure you are using the right language code. Login to your server and run locale -a to see a list of all available ones. For me it shows:

C
C.UTF-8
de_AT.utf8
de_BE.utf8
de_CH.utf8
de_DE.utf8
de_LI.utf8
de_LU.utf8
...

You need to use one of those codes.

Then you can use:

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin');
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.utf8');
$date_now = date('Y-m-d');
$month_available = strftime('%B %Y', strtotime($date_now));
$month_next = strftime('%B %Y', strtotime($date_now.' +1 month'));

and "März 2020" etc. get displayed correctly.

Answer 3

It is good idea to pass the encoding when setting the locale:

 <?php    
 date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Belgrade');
 setlocale(LC_TIME, array('sr_CS.UTF-8', 'sr.UTF-8'));

Answer 4

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)

Answer 5

Here is an example with IntlDateFormatter

$format = new IntlDateFormatter('sr_CS', IntlDateFormatter::NONE, 
              IntlDateFormatter::NONE, NULL, NULL, "MMM");
$monthName = datefmt_format($format, mktime(0, 0, 0, $i));