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PHP - Codeigniter set views datetime to locale

I'm using CodeIgniter and I have tons of date('format',strtotime(unixtimestamp)) methods in my views.

So when user choose his own language and I would like to automatically convert all datetimes to locale time zone for all my views.

Is there any recursive way to make this possible?

The infos i get from users is their selected language:
it = Italian
fr = French
es = Espanol
etc... so i get lang key codes

I sincerely can't get anything out of my head.

Any help appreciated, really. Thanks.

Solution

  • Depending how you store the timezone preference, you could use date_default_timezone_set().

    For example:

    date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

    Note: I'm not familiar with CodeIgnitor, but so long as you set this in a bootstrap or config script, that is before you call date(), this will automatically display all dates in the set locale.