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>setlocale</H1
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>    (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P
>setlocale&nbsp;--&nbsp;Set locale information</DIV
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>Description</H2
>string <B
CLASS="methodname"
>setlocale</B
> ( mixed category, string locale [, string ...])<BR
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>string <B
CLASS="methodname"
>setlocale</B
> ( mixed category, array locale)<BR
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>&#13;     <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>Category</I
></TT
> is a named constant (or string)
     specifying the category of the functions affected by the locale
     setting:
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>&#13;        LC_ALL for all of the below
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>&#13;        LC_COLLATE for string comparison, see
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>strcoll()</B
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>&#13;        LC_CTYPE for character classification and conversion, for
        example <A
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>strtoupper()</B
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>
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>&#13;        LC_MONETARY for <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>localeconv()</B
></A
>
       </P
></LI
><LI
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> LC_NUMERIC for decimal separator (See also
       <A
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><B
CLASS="function"
>localeconv()</B
></A
>)
       </P
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>&#13;        LC_TIME for date and time formatting with
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>strftime()</B
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>&#13;     If <TT
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><I
>locale</I
></TT
> is the empty string
     <TT
CLASS="literal"
>""</TT
>, the locale names will be set from the
     values of environment variables with the same names as the above
     categories, or from "LANG".
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>&#13;     If <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>locale</I
></TT
> is zero or <TT
CLASS="literal"
>"0"</TT
>, the locale setting
     is not affected, only the current setting is returned.
    </P
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>&#13;     If <TT
CLASS="parameter"
><I
>locale</I
></TT
> is an array or followed by additional
     parameters then each array element or parameter is tried to be set as
     new locale until success. This is usefull if a locale is known under
     different names on different systems or for providing a fallback 
     for a possibly not available locale.
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>Note: </B
>
      Passing multiple locales is not available before PHP 4.3.0
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>&#13;     Setlocale returns the new current locale, or <TT
CLASS="constant"
><B
>FALSE</B
></TT
> if the locale
     functionality is not implemented in the platform, the specified
     locale does not exist or the category name is invalid.
     An invalid category name also causes a warning message.
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><B
>Note: </B
>
      The return value of <B
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>setlocale()</B
> depends
      on the system that PHP is running.  It returns exactly
      what the system setlocale function returns.
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/* Set locale to Dutch */
setlocale (LC_ALL, 'nl_NL');

/* Output: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
echo strftime ("%A %e %B %Y", mktime (0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));

/* try different possible locale names for german as of PHP 4.3.0 */
$loc_de = setlocale (LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
echo "Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";
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