php - can't get date in german language
date, php, setlocale
Solution
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
Problem
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 (LC_TIME, "de_DE"); $tz_object = new DateTimeZone('Europe/Zurich'); $datetime = new DateTime(); $datetime->setTimezone($tz_object); return $datetime->format('l, d. F Y '); } echo get_Datetime_Now(); ``` It returns "Sunday, 09. February 2014" but I wan't "Sonntag, 09. Februar 2014" (German language). I also tried this: ``` setlocale(LC_TIME, "de_DE"); echo strftime("%A, %d. %B %Y"); ``` It also returns "Sunday, 09. February 2014". I saw many examples on the internet, which don't work (at least on my environment). Are there settings that I should check? I appreciate any help! Thx in advance, shivan