Special date format like 'today, July 12'

Question

The output of the following routine is exactly what I want, but as a PHP beginner, I have had a hard time to get there and I'm not convinced with the steps I took. Can I achive the same result using only one DateFormatter and/or not having to poke the format with regex? Is there a possibility for an outright format definition?

<?php
    // display: (today, Juli 12th)

    $locales=array("en-gb","en","de-ch","ru","sv","pl","ca-es","es","it","fr","nl","pt","de");

    foreach ($locales as $locale) {

        $fmt1 = new IntlDateFormatter(
            $locale,
            IntlDateFormatter::RELATIVE_FULL,   // always 'today' 
            IntlDateFormatter::NONE,            // no time
            date_default_timezone_get(),
            IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
        );

        $fmt2 = new IntlDateFormatter(
            $locale,
            IntlDateFormatter::FULL,            // everything
            IntlDateFormatter::NONE,            
            date_default_timezone_get(),
            IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
        );

        // get 'today' from fmt1
        $today_string = $fmt1->format(time());

        // modify pattern of fmt2:
        $date_format = datefmt_get_pattern($fmt2);
        // get 'd to MMMM' or 'MMMM to d' from pattern, drop the rest
        $regEx="@(^.*?(d.*?MMMM|MMMM.*?d).*?$)@";
        datefmt_set_pattern($fmt2, preg_replace($regEx, '$2', $date_format)); 

        // use pattern to get output:
        $day_month = $fmt2->format(time());

        // concat and output
        $my_string = $today_string . ", " . $day_month;
        echo $my_string . PHP_EOL;
    }
?>

Output:

today, 12 July
today, July 12
heute, 12. Juli
сегодня, 12 июля
i dag, 12 juli
dzisiaj, 12 lipca
avui, 12 de juliol
hoy, 12 de julio
oggi, 12 luglio
aujourd’hui, 12 juillet
vandaag, 12 juli
hoje, 12 de julho
heute, 12. Juli

Answer 1

For the "today" string i can't find something better.... only setting them with the locales in the array.

Probably something like this instead of $fmt2 could be more readable

setlocale(LC_TIME, $locale);
$my_string = $today_string . ", " . date('d F');

Actually i don't remember date() takes setLocale in consideration... I'm sure about strftime() but it is deprecated in PHP 8.1.0