On the date localization

From the thread phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?14,4656

The problem of the phorum date(s) localization.


First of all, I check the date format in "include/lang/my_language.php" file.
For example:
$PHORUM['long_date']=" j M. Y G:i";
$PHORUM['short_date']="d.m.Y G:i";

From the "[www.php.net]; we can see, that the format character "M" means "Jan", "Feb",... and so on.
But in my language the textual representations of the months sound as "Sich", "Lut", etc. (The same problem with "F" format character.)

So, in the "include/format_functions.php" file I have modified the function phorum_date() for my language and for my settings in lang-file.


function phorum_date( $picture, $ts )
{
$ukr_months = array("ñ³÷","ëþò", "áåð", "êâ³ò", "òðàâ", "÷åðâ", "ëèï", "ñåðï", "âåð", "æîâò", "ëèñò", "ãðóä");
/*My local names for "M" in format characters of my_language.php*/

$eng_months = array("Jan","Fab", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Now", "Dec");
/*English names*/

/*
Users can set english or default lang in the profile, not only my lang.
My lang is default, so I can use this instruction.
*/
if($GLOBALS['PHORUM']['user']['user_language'] == "english") {$eng_months = $ukr_months;}



$PHORUM = $GLOBALS["PHORUM"];

if(isset( $PHORUM["user"]["tz_offset"] ) ){

$ts += $PHORUM["user"]["tz_offset"] * 3600;

return str_replace( $eng_months, $ukr_months, gmdate( $picture, $ts ) );

} else {

$ts += $PHORUM["tz_offset"] * 3600;

return str_replace( $eng_months, $ukr_months, date( $picture, $ts ) );

}

}

Hi Maksym,

thank you for your effort, and thank you for showing me, that I am not the only one to have thought, that something should be done about it. Maybe Thomas, Brian & Co will consider to give it a shot, too. But I well understand that there are bigger Nuts to krack right now...

I might have a solution aswell: what about using something like:

In each Lang File:

$local = "de" // for German
or
$local = "en" // for English

and what have you...

and then use
setlocal ("LC_TIME","$local")
in cobination with the date() function of PHP.

It is a great solution! Thank you.

Applying to the function phorum_date() your method, I get the following:

Modifications in lang file:

$local = "UK"; // Set your own location, of course
// See [www.w3.org]

$PHORUM['long_date']=" %d %b %Y, %H:%M";
$PHORUM['short_date']="%d.%m.%y %H:%M";
// See format string [www.php.net]


And the function itself:

function phorum_date( $picture, $ts )
{
setlocale(LC_TIME, $local);


$PHORUM = $GLOBALS["PHORUM"];

if(isset( $PHORUM["user"]["tz_offset"] ) ){

$ts += $PHORUM["user"]["tz_offset"] * 3600;

return gmstrftime( $picture, $ts );


} else {

$ts += $PHORUM["tz_offset"] * 3600;

return strftime( $picture, $ts );


}

}

Well done Maksym !

Remains only one Question is it great enough to be recognised as part of the offical code ?

pat

Its now in the 5.0.4-release. Thanks for the hint.