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I have a xampp 1.6.7 on a win server 2003 and even if I set in a php page a different language all dates are in English. How can I solve this?
Thank you

Could I inquire why you installed such an old version????

I need it for a CMS I can't upgrade in this moment but I need dates in other language. could you help me, please?

can you give us a sample sourcecode to bugtrack that on our own?
It's nearly impossible to help you without knowing anything about your script.

best wishes,
Altrea

A simple example

<?php

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'it_IT');
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Rome');
echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');

?>


shows me

Friday 2nd of March 2012 09:59:13 AM

Okay, two things:

Please check if the Locale is installed on your system:

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<?php
//should not return FALSE
$locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'it_IT');
var_dump($locale);
?>

Don't use date() but strftime().

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php wrote:To format dates in other languages, you should use the setlocale() and strftime() functions instead of date().

best wishes,
Altrea

It returns
bool(false)
What can I do now? Thanks

Try other Language Strings:

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setlocale(LC_ALL, 'italian');
//or
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'italian_italy');
//or
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ita_ita');

if you want to use it with UTF-8 you have to add the codepage:

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//65001 is the utf-8 codepage on Windows
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'italian.65001');
//or
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'italian_italy.65001');
//or
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ita_ita.65001');

best wishes,
Altrea

Even if I put one of your options it still returns bool(flase). I tried all options and it'l always the same. any ideas? thanks

Can someone help me?