How to get all kind of info from locale?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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Hello,

So we all use all kind of UI elements like ‘select2’ for example and some of this elements can receive params like dateFormat, datetimeFormat, direction … etc

Well, in my app i have successfully configured my locale and when i do something like this:


<?php $formatter = \Yii::$app->formatter; ?>

// $siteLanguage = 'ro';

<?=$formatter->asCurrency($package->price,$siteLanguage);?>

and it’s working perfectly, but what i need is :

How can i get dateFormat, dateTimeFormat, direction, and any other options based on locale?

Let’s say i have locale set to ‘ar’ then the direction for example is ‘rtl’.

Is there a way to get this in yii2 by passing locale ?

2

There’s no built in way to get it from Yii but you may try getting it from intl resource bundles as I did for http://intl.rmcreative.ru/. Here’s the source code: https://github.com/samdark/intl-icu-data-tables

3

hmm, i see.

Thank you for sharing this.

Were you able to extract direction from locale? like LTR or RTL ?

Thanks again!

4

It is available if you’re using PHP 7: http://php.net/manual/en/intlchar.chardirection.php. So if you need it for PHP less than 7 then it should be somewhere in ICU data which you can dig it using the method in the source code I’ve linked to.