Level 53
@rsdev000 This will work for you, once you've added the locale:
setlocale(LC_TIME, 'es_ES.utf8');
>>> Carbon\Carbon::now()->formatLocalized('%A %d %B %Y');
=> "domingo 08 febrero 2015"
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Feb 8, 2015
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Level 2
Carbon - Localized date
Hi all
I have a model with a timestamp field named start_at. The date was displayed as yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss but now I need to print the data in a pdf file and it should be formatted like "Sunday 8 February 2015" in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
I'm doing this develoment in a Homestrad VM machine.
In the model I have
protected $dates = array('start_at');
Added missing locales in system and checked they are available
locale -a returns
C
C.UTF-8
en_US.utf8
es_ES.uft8
POSIX
pt_BR.utf8
pt_PT.iso88591
pt_PT.utf8
In /etc/default/locale tried
LANG="es_ES.UTF-8", LANG="es_ES.utf8"
LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8", LC_ALL="es_ES.utf8"
In the view:
$info->start_at->formatLocalized('%A %d %B %Y');
This is a L4 app and in config\app.php I tried everything I know
'locale' => 'es_ES.UTF-8',
'locale' => 'es_ES.utf8',
It always return the date localized in English and I can't figure out a way to localize the date othe than English.
Thanks in advance.
Level 2
Thanks. Didn't try your solution before but I need to localize a date that comes from the database.
Level 53
@rsdev000 Yes, I know. It doesn't matter, that was just an example. Feel free to run your $info->start_at->formatLocalized('%A %d %B %Y'); and it will stil work.
Level 2
That is what I've got in the view as my first post and it doesn't work. Always prints the date in english.
Tricky issue.
Level 53
@rsdev000 But are you calling setlocale(LC_TIME, 'es_ES.utf8'); before??
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Level 2
Yes I am. Tested again yesterday. It works but the app uses a localization package and I will need to write a route filter to map the package locales to the system locales in order to avoid urls like example.com/es_ES.utf8/contacto and keep the pretty one - example.com/es/contacto
Thanks
Level 4
Nowadays it is bettet to use ->isoFormat('dddd DD MMMM YYYY') instead of ->formatLocalized('%A %d %B %Y') because formatLocalized() is deprecated
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