Help: Plugin for Setting Locale?

I am building a site in Spanish, and I am thinking that the best way to make sure all my dates, times, etc. get rendered correctly is to have a plugin that listens for an event such as OnWebPagePreRender (or whatever that event is called) and then uses PHP’s setlocale() function to switch the locale setting to Spanish.

My question is, if I want to make this more configurable so that it could be used to set the locale to any desired setting, how would I go about this? I see that you can set up some sort of configuration string for a plugin. What’s that all about? Would that help me do what I want? Also could I set it up some how so that it set the locale to Spanish at the beginning of the page rendering process and then set it back to English after the page is rendered?

Or is there a better way to do this than using a plugin? I can’t find any documentation on how plugins work except for a few examples with no explanation.

Guillaume has worked a lot on this issues, I suggest you read this :
Add SetLocale to language files

and this

[Snippet] FormatDate

Hope it helps

Quote from: davidm at Apr 06, 2006, 09:30 AM

Guillaume has worked a lot on this issues, I suggest you read this :
Add SetLocale to language files

and this

[Snippet] FormatDate

Hope it helps

Thanks. This is useful to know it’s being discussed. However, it doesn’t really sound like the issue has been resolved.

The FormatDate snippet doesn’t really help because the big issue is the locale setting. If my locale setting is set for English, the month names are always going to appear as January, February, etc. no matter what type of formatting string I apply (unless I use digits for the months instead of names, but I really would rather not do that).

Aside from the locale issue, I’d appreciate any insight into the plugin configuration string--what it is, how it’s used, etc. Thanks. I’m learning slowly but surely.

FormatDate permits to format date with the localization used. To modify your setting you can see Add SetLocale to language files. If spanish settings is not avalaibled a solution is to replace each english word by spanish word.
If you can’t modify local setting you can use the plugin WordsReplace to replace english words by spanish words.