PHP Date in Spanish/Italian

[MSFT]

My friend runs a business that has clients who speak English, Italian, and Spanish. He wanted to have a PHP date echoed out on his website. The problem is that he needs the day of the week and month to both be echoed out in either Spanish or Italian. Any ideas?

[Buzz]

Does the web site already support multiple languages?

If not, you would need to echo the date to variables then apply Language conditions to translate the days or months.

something like:

PHP Code:

$datestamp =  date('l,F,d,Y');
list($day,$month, $dt, $year) = split('[,]', $datestamp);
if $day == 'Monday' { $dayS = 'MondayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Tuesday' { $dayS = 'TuesdayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Wednesday' { $dayS = 'WednesdayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Thursday' { $dayS = 'ThursdayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Friday' { $dayS = 'FridayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Saturday' { $dayS = 'SaturdayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Sunday' { $dayS = 'SundayinSpanish' }
// Repeat this type of conditionals for each language and/or day and month

$dtm=$day.' ('.$dayS.'), '.$month.' '.$dt.', '.$year; 


Then simply

PHP Code:

echo $dtm; 


for the dateline. To spit out Monday (SpanishMonday), January 06, 2006

or For two dates lines language specific

PHP Code:

$datestamp =  date('l,F,d,Y');
list($day,$month, $dt, $year) = split('[,]', $datestamp);
if $day == 'Monday' { $dayS = 'MondayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Tuesday' { $dayS = 'TuesdayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Wednesday' { $dayS = 'WednesdayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Thursday' { $dayS = 'ThursdayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Friday' { $dayS = 'FridayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Saturday' { $dayS = 'SaturdayinSpanish' }
if $day == 'Sunday' { $dayS = 'SundayinSpanish' }
// Repeat this type of conditionals for each language and/or day and month

$dtm=$day.', '.$month.' '.$dt.', '.$year;
$Spandtm=$dayS.', '.$monthS.' '.$dt.', '.$year; 


Then simply

PHP Code:

 echo $dtm; 


for English dateline and

PHP Code:

echo $Spandtm; 


for Spanish dateline.

I'm sure there are many other ways.. this was just off the top of my head.

[degsy]

If you use Dreamweaver then here is an extension that may help
http://www.tecnorama.org/document.php?id_doc=47


Otherwise you could create your own function to change the day name
http://codewalkers.com/seecode/294.html


or you could use setlocale() with strftime() if you have the respective locales installed in your system
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

[MSFT]

Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks for both of your suggestions, my friend used a similar method, but tweaked it a bit. Thanks again!