setlocale() - string

Sets locale information.

Parameters : 
 category - category is a named constant specifying the
       category of the functions affected by the locale setting:
       


LC_ALL for all of the below
         



LC_COLLATE for string comparison, see
          strcoll()




LC_CTYPE for character classification and conversion, for
          example strtoupper()




LC_MONETARY for localeconv()




LC_NUMERIC for decimal separator (See also
          localeconv())
         



LC_TIME for date and time formatting with
          strftime()




LC_MESSAGES for system responses (available if PHP was compiled with
          libintl) 
 locale - If locale is NULL or the empty string
       "", the locale names will be set from the
       values of environment variables with the same names as the above
       categories, or from "LANG".
      

       If locale is "0",
       the locale setting is not affected, only the current setting is returned.
      

       If locale is an array or followed by additional
       parameters then each array element or parameter is tried to be set as
       new locale until success. This is useful if a locale is known under
       different names on different systems or for providing a fallback
       for a possibly not available locale. 
 ... - (Optional string or array parameters to try as locale settings until
       success.) 

Syntax

string setlocale
    ( int $category
   , string $locale
   [, string $...
  ] )

Example

<?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'";?>

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