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<h2 class="title">Basic usage of this extension</h2>
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Each module provides two kind of APIs: a procedural one and an object
oriented one. Both are actually identical and described in the
corresponding document.
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All input strings must be in UTF-8 encoding. All output strings are
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<p><strong>Example #1 Example of using the procedural API</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$coll </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">collator_create</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'en_US'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$result </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">collator_compare</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$coll</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"string#1"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"string#2"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<p><strong>Example #2 Example of using the object-oriented API</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$coll </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">Collator</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'en_US'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$al </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$coll</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getLocale</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Locale</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">ACTUAL_LOCALE</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Actual locale: </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$al</span><span style="color: #DD0000">\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$formatter </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">NumberFormatter</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'en_US'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">NumberFormatter</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">DECIMAL</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$formatter</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">format</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">1234567</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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