Smarty

[Cronet]

hi there!

I want to use the modeifider date_format:"%a" ..
In the manual is the hint
"%a - abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale "

How to set the locale manually?

I get only the english statements.. but I need the german....

It would be nice if anybody could help...

Greets
Cronet

[boots]

It would be very helpful if you gave at least some hints as to your OS, version, etc.

[messju]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php may be a starter.

[Cronet]

Hi!

tried this example from php.net

<?php
setlocale (LC_TIME, "C");
print (strftime ("%A in Finnish is "));
setlocale (LC_TIME, "fi_FI");
print (strftime ("%A, in French "));
setlocale (LC_TIME, "fr_FR");
print (strftime ("%A and in German "));
setlocale (LC_TIME, "de_DE");
print (strftime ("%A.\n"));
?>

OUTPUT:
Tuesday in Finnish is Tuesday, in French Tuesday and in German Tuesday.


I'm using a win system, and smarty 2.5.0, php 4.3.0


Greets
Cronet

[BloodRath]

if it could help u i achieve this transformation this way
1/ use the translation functions from AZTEK (a too nice function !!!!!!!! )
2/ define in your eng.xml or fr.xml file those thing
<message>
<id>date_day_name_0</id>
<string>sunday</string> <!-- your translation -->
</message>

...
3/ rewrite the modifier date to
parse the datestring with regexp and split it
4/ retrieve the name of the day with :
mktime and date
5/ rewrite the month, and the name of the day via the t() (cf AZTEK function)
by example :

$nameOfDay = mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year);
$nameOfDay = t('date_day_name_'.date('w',$nameOfDay));

i haven't finish all the format option of my modifier it's the reason why i haven't send here the complete code
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[AZTEK]

Because I found that php's locale stuff does not work on all systems exactly as I would like it to I do something close to what BloodRath said. IMHO the best way is to use a multilanguage system, take your pick from http://www.phpinsider.com/smarty-forum/viewtopic.php?t=84. I guess BloodRath liked mine. So as an example using my system.

[Cronet]

Thank you for your answers...

I try it this weekend with your method!!