Laravel strftime with Homestead ain't working

Question

I've been having alot of trouble with formating a date with my localization using Laravel and Homestead (I don't know if homestead has any kinda server configurations which make it doesn't work but thats my though). I guess anyone around the internet have been struggling with the same issue. I've been searching for an answer for hours without getting anywhere closer to a solution.. This is my code.

public function formated_start()
{
    setlocale(LC_ALL, 'sv_SE');
    return strftime('%A %H:%M', strtotime($this->start));
}

I've also tried with laravel specific

public function formated_start()
{
    App::setLocale('sv_SE')
    return strftime('%A %H:%M', strtotime($this->start));
}

Still with the same result nothing changed and the %A which should be the day of week in my language in this case Swedish is still in English.

Answer 1

Homestead provides an Ubuntu system. So first check which locales are available on your system with locale -a . Maybe the swedish locale is named sv_SE.iso88591 or sv_SE.utf8 . If it is not installed you can install it with:

sudo locale-gen sv_SE sv_SE.utf8

After installing your first solution with setlocale(); should work. This would be the PHP-way to generate dates.

Don't forget to restart the server after you've installed the locale's described

sudo nginx restart

The Laravel-way

For the Laravel-way you need to generate the locals yourself. Start by adding a locale file in /app/lang/sv/days.php with:

<?php

return array(
    'Monday' => 'måndag',
    'Tuesday' => 'tisdag',
    'Wednesday' => '..',
    'Thursday' => '..',
    'Friday' => '..',
    'Saturday' => 'lördag',
    'Sunday' => '..',
);

Now you can use the App::setLocale() with Lang::get() :

App::setLocale('sv');
echo Lang::get(sprintf('days.%s', date('l')));

This is way more complex but if you are hosting Laravel on a shared hosting environment where you can't generate locales, this could be a possible way.

Answer 2

至少在Windows中，这似乎对我有用。

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'sv_SE', 'Swedish', 'swedish');

Answer 3

If your problem is in general, instead of specifically using strftime you could try with Laravel4-lang , it's installed via composer. Add to the composer.json file:

"require": { "laravel/framework": "4.2.*", "caouecs/laravel4-lang": "dev-master" },

Then update the package:

composer update caouecs/laravel4-lang

Update

This worked really good too: https://github.com/jenssegers/laravel-date