Set and get locale information in PHP
Description
The following code shows how to set and get locale information.
Example
<?php/*w w w . ja v a 2 s .c om*/
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'it_IT');
$locale = localeconv();
printf("(it_IT) Total hours spent commuting %s <br />",
number_format(4532.23, 2, $locale['decimal_point'],
$locale['thousands_sep']));
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US');
$locale = localeconv();
printf("(en_US) Total hours spent commuting %s",
number_format(4532.23, 2, $locale['decimal_point'],
$locale['thousands_sep']));
?>
The code above generates the following result.
