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Asked: 2022-10-01 04:25:06 +0800 CST 2022-10-01 04:25:06 +0800 CST

Get last month name as parameter to function in Spanish

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I am trying to get the name of the month by passing the number of the month as a parameter to my function. I want it to appear in Spanish and I don't want to use the deprecated strftime function, I want to update my code to php 8 functions. I have been doing a lot of research and I have found the following:

$formatter = new \IntlDateFormatter(
                'es_ES',
                \IntlDateFormatter::LONG,
                \IntlDateFormatter::LONG,
                'Europe/Madrid'
            );
            
            return $formatter->format($mes);

but I don't know how I can pass the name of the month to IntlDateFormatter so that only September appears, for example.

I hope you can guide me a bit. I use native php, nothing from composer or external libraries

Thank you and regards

php

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Two important points:

    1. Get the date: for this I implement a relative format that it supports DateTimeand that can be passed as a parameter to IntlDateFormatter.

    2. Obtain the data with the expected format: what happens is that it IntlDateFormatteralso supports formats, for example:

    Example:

    <?php

$date = new DateTime('last day of last month');

$formatter = new IntlDateFormatter(
                'es_ES',
                IntlDateFormatter::LONG,
                IntlDateFormatter::LONG,
                'Europe/Madrid',
                NULL,
                'MMMM'
            );
            
$datos = $formatter->format($date);

var_dump($datos);

    Output:

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    Here is the documentation , exactly on the third example of the OOP version.

    Implementation:

    <?php

class DateManager
{
    public function getLastDayOfLastMonth(){
        return new DateTime('last day of last month');
    }
    
    public function getMonth($lang,$local,$format,$date){
        $formatter = new IntlDateFormatter(
                $lang,
                IntlDateFormatter::LONG,
                IntlDateFormatter::LONG,
                $local,
                NULL,
                $format
            );
            
        return $formatter->format($date);
    }
    
}

$dateMAnager = new DateManager();

$month = $dateMAnager->getMonth(
    'es_ES', // puedo cambiar el idioma al quer me de la gana
    'Europe/Madrid', // me permite pasarle en base a que Region/ciudad quiero que saque la fecha
    'MMMM', // de esta forma puedo pasar cualquier otro formato
    $dateMAnager->getLastDayOfLastMonth() // de esta forma puedo pasar cualquier otra fecha
    );

var_dump($month);

    Creating a class that allows me to play and work dynamically with the data.

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