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<refentry xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="function.setlocale">
<refnamediv>
<refname>setlocale</refname>
<refpurpose>Set locale information</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<type class="union"><type>string</type><type>false</type></type><methodname>setlocale</methodname>
<methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>category</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>locales</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam rep="repeat"><type>string</type><parameter>rest</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<simpara>Alternative signature (not supported with named arguments):</simpara>
<methodsynopsis>
<type class="union"><type>string</type><type>false</type></type><methodname>setlocale</methodname>
<methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>category</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam><type>array</type><parameter>locale_array</parameter></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Sets locale information.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
The locale information is maintained per process, not per thread. If you
are running PHP on a multithreaded server API
, you may experience sudden changes in locale settings while a
script is running, though the script itself never called
<function>setlocale</function>. This happens due to other scripts
running in different threads of the same process at the same time,
changing the process-wide locale using <function>setlocale</function>.
On Windows, locale information is maintained per thread as of PHP 7.0.5.
</para>
</warning>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>category</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<parameter>category</parameter> is a named constant specifying the
category of the functions affected by the locale setting:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<simpara>
<constant>LC_ALL</constant> for all of the below
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
<constant>LC_COLLATE</constant> for string comparison, see
<function>strcoll</function>
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
<constant>LC_CTYPE</constant> for character classification and conversion, for
example <function>strtoupper</function>
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
<constant>LC_MONETARY</constant> for <function>localeconv</function>
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
<constant>LC_NUMERIC</constant> for decimal separator (See also
<function>localeconv</function>)
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
<constant>LC_TIME</constant> for date and time formatting with
<function>strftime</function>
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
<constant>LC_MESSAGES</constant> for system responses (available if PHP was compiled with
<literal>libintl</literal>)
</simpara>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>locales</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If <parameter>locales</parameter> is the empty string
<literal>""</literal>, the locale names will be set from the
values of environment variables with the same names as the above
categories, or from "LANG".
</para>
<para>
If <parameter>locales</parameter> is <literal>"0"</literal>,
the locale setting is not affected, only the current setting is returned.
</para>
<para>
If <parameter>locales</parameter> is followed by additional
parameters then each parameter is tried to be set as
new locale until success. This is useful if a locale is known under
different names on different systems or for providing a fallback
for a possibly not available locale.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>rest</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Optional string parameters to try as locale settings until
success.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>locale_array</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Each array element is tried to be set as
new locale until success. This is useful if a locale is known under
different names on different systems or for providing a fallback
for a possibly not available locale.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<note>
<para>
On Windows, setlocale(LC_ALL, '') sets the locale names from the
system's regional/language settings (accessible via Control Panel).
</para>
</note>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
Returns the new current locale, or &false; if the locale functionality is
not implemented on your platform, the specified locale does not exist or
the category name is invalid.
</para>
<para>
An invalid category name also causes a warning message. Category/locale
names can be found in <link xlink:href="&url.rfc;1766">RFC 1766</link>
and <link xlink:href="&url.iso-639;">ISO 639</link>.
Different systems have different naming schemes for locales.
</para>
<note>
<para>
The return value of <function>setlocale</function> depends
on the system that PHP is running. It returns exactly
what the system <literal>setlocale</literal> function returns.
</para>
</note>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<para>
<example>
<title><function>setlocale</function> Examples</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
/* 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 */
$loc_de = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
echo "Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
<para>
<example>
<title><function>setlocale</function> Examples for Windows</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
/* Set locale to Dutch */
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nld_nld');
/* Output: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
echo strftime("%A %d %B %Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));
/* try different possible locale names for german */
$loc_de = setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'deu_deu');
echo "Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
</example>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="notes">
&reftitle.notes;
<tip>
<para>
Windows users will find useful information about
<parameter>locales</parameter> strings at Microsoft's
<acronym>MSDN</acronym> website. Supported language strings can be found
in the
<link xlink:href="&url.setlocale.lang.win32;">language strings documentation</link>
and supported country/region strings in the
<link xlink:href="&url.setlocale.country.win32;">country/region strings documentation</link>.
</para>
</tip>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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