Function to show date with language specifics in PHP

Does anyone know how to 开发者_开发问答make a little function for date in PHP, and if possible, a way to change the function language.

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I'd use the IntlDateFormatter class from the PHP's intl extension. The nice thing about the intl extension is that it does not rely on system locales to be present/installed.

If installing system locales is no problem for you (or you can't get intl running) then have a look at strftime to format unix timestamps according to locale.

Edit: I just remembered I wrote a tutorial a few years ago about building the intl estension from source (on Debian): http://www.jejik.com/articles/2008/07/howto_build_and_install_the_intl_pecl_extension_for_php5_in_debian/