PHP setlocale has no effect
date, php, setlocale
Solution
This solution might help if you don't have shell access to the server.
If you have shell access, then Benjamin Seiller's answer is the best!
As I don't have any other possibilities (shell), I've found a solution with only PHP by using the IntlDateFormatter class.
<?php
// Example vars
$month = '6';
$year = '2014';
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter('de_DE',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'Europe/Berlin',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN);
$lastMonth = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month -1, 1, $year);
$showLastMonth = $fmt->format($lastMonth);
echo $showLastMonth;
Problem
The `setlocale()` function doesn't set the desired language (German). The goal is to output month names. This is my test code with trials so far: ``` <?php date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin'); setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE.utf8'); // Or setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro'); // Or setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE'); // Or setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de'); // Or setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ge'); echo strftime('%B'); ``` Output: June instead of Juni Any suggestions? - I don't have ssh or other shell access. - The script is running on a linux server. PHP version 5.6