How do I get an output filter to use a different language?

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Sean Kimball Reply #1, 13 years, 2 months ago

I've got an English/French site, in one section I am outputting news articles & formatting the date with an output filter like this:

[[+publishedon:strtotime:date=`%b %e, %Y`]]

Which works great on the English side - but how can I get it to output French Month names on the French side??

This question has been answered by BobRay. See the first response.

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BobRay Reply #2, 13 years, 2 months ago

IIRC, the PHP date() function doesn't respect the 'locale' setting, but strftime() does.

IOW, try replacing the date modifier with the strftime modifier.

I ranted a little about MODX date handling here: http://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2013/08/19/displaying-modx-resource-date-fields/, and there's a method for doing exactly what you want with a snippet, which should be significantly faster.

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Sean Kimball Reply #3, 13 years, 2 months ago

Thanks again Bob;

It mostly works, I have something like this from following your post:

<?php
/* DateFormat snippet */

$locale = $modx->getOption('locale');

setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);

$field = $scriptProperties['field'];

$format = $scriptProperties['formatString'];

$resource = $modx->getObject('modResource', $scriptProperties['id']);
 
$timestamp = $resource->_fields[$field];

return strftime($format, $timestamp);

I could not get the script to recognize the 'locale' setting in the French context, I had to grab it in the snippet like above.

Now while this works, it appears to output all the French months as lowercase [janv, juil, mars, etc] AND also output funny characters in other months:

"ao�t 2, 2012 & f�vr. 19, 2013"

even though I'm using a utf-8 character set & 'fr' content language meta...

<meta name="content-language" content="fr" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Any ideas what may be causing that?

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Sean Kimball CLP, CLS.
Technical Director / Sr. Developer | BigBlock Studios
._______________________________________________.
Bigblock Studios http://www.bigblockstudios.ca Web site design & development.
27-1300 King Street East. Box 167 Oshawa, Ontario L1H8J4 Canada.
phone/fax: 905-426-5525

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Sean Kimball Reply #4, 13 years, 2 months ago

A little update, I had to add a little to the script to get it to output in the correct character set, I have no idea how or where it got the weird windows formatting...

<?php
/* DateFormat snippet */

$locale = $modx->getOption('locale');

setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);

$field = $scriptProperties['field'];

$format = $scriptProperties['formatString'];

$resource = $modx->getObject('modResource', $scriptProperties['id']);
 
$timestamp = $resource->_fields[$field];

$date_formatted = strftime($format, $timestamp);

return iconv('Windows-1252','UTF-8',$date_formatted);

*** Not just websites, we also create signage, banners, print, trade show displays and more! ***

Sean Kimball CLP, CLS.
Technical Director / Sr. Developer | BigBlock Studios
._______________________________________________.
Bigblock Studios http://www.bigblockstudios.ca Web site design & development.
27-1300 King Street East. Box 167 Oshawa, Ontario L1H8J4 Canada.
phone/fax: 905-426-5525

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sottwell Reply #5, 13 years, 2 months ago

Probably got the Windows charset from the server. I've had to convert like that for uploaded filenames on a Windows server.

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