[Windows + PHP5] Localizing date()?

[Gilles Ganault]

Hello

I'm trying to localize a small PHP application which uses
date() to display a date saved as Epoch in MySQL, but I can't get the
month to be displayed in French:

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//BAD setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR@euro', 'fr_FR', 'fra_fra');
//BAD setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fra_fra');
//BAD setlocale(LC_ALL, 'french');
//BAD setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR');
//BAD setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr-FR');
//BAD setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr');
//BAD too
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'French');

//27 December 2007 instead of
//27 décembre 2007
echo date('d F Y', '1198790064');
=========

I read the comments in www.php.net/date , and was wondering...

1. Why PHP5 seems to have a problem with locales, and

2. What would be the least complicated way to change this call to
date()?

Thank you.

[Gilles Ganault]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:10:57 +0100, Gilles Ganault <no****@nospam.com>
wrote:

>2. What would be the least complicated way to change this call to
date()?

For those interested, it seems like date() always displays date/time
using the US locale, while strftime() uses the selected locale.

For instance, the following does display the date according to the
French locale:

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setlocale(LC_ALL, 'French');

//27 December 2007
echo date('d F Y', '1198790064') . "<p>";

//27 décembre 2007
echo strftime('%d %B %Y', '1198790064');
===========

HTH,