Does anyone know how to convert language country codes like the ones below into the name of the actual language?
en_US
de_DE
en_GB
it_IT
fr_FR
I have a dynamic input and would need to convert the language country code to the corresponding name of the language (i.e en_US = English, fr_FR = French).
Check this code and it works fine i have used the codes from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533052%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
<?php
$strLcodes = '<tr><td>af</td><td>Afrikaans </td><td>sq</td><td>Albanian </td></tr>
<tr><td>ar-sa</td><td>Arabic (Saudi Arabia) </td><td>ar-iq</td><td>Arabic (Iraq) </td></tr>
<tr><td>ar-eg</td><td>Arabic (Egypt) </td><td>ar-ly</td><td>Arabic (Libya) </td></tr>
<tr><td>ar-dz</td><td>Arabic (Algeria) </td><td>ar-ma</td><td>Arabic (Morocco) </td></tr>
<tr><td>ar-tn</td><td>Arabic (Tunisia) </td><td>ar-om</td><td>Arabic (Oman) </td></tr>
<tr><td>ar-ye</td><td>Arabic (Yemen) </td><td>ar-sy</td><td>Arabic (Syria) </td></tr>
<tr><td>ar-jo</td><td>Arabic (Jordan) </td><td>ar-lb</td><td>Arabic (Lebanon) </td></tr>
<tr><td>ar-kw</td><td>Arabic (Kuwait) </td><td>ar-ae</td><td>Arabic (U.A.E.) </td></tr>
<tr><td>ar-bh</td><td>Arabic (Bahrain) </td><td>ar-qa</td><td>Arabic (Qatar) </td></tr>
<tr><td>eu</td><td>Basque </td><td>bg</td><td>Bulgarian </td></tr>
<tr><td>be</td><td>Belarusian </td><td>ca</td><td>Catalan </td></tr>
<tr><td>zh-tw</td><td>Chinese (Taiwan) </td><td>zh-cn</td><td>Chinese (PRC) </td></tr>
<tr><td>zh-hk</td><td>Chinese (Hong Kong SAR) </td><td>zh-sg</td><td>Chinese (Singapore) </td></tr>
<tr><td>hr</td><td>Croatian </td><td>cs</td><td>Czech </td></tr>
<tr><td>da</td><td>Danish </td><td>nl</td><td>Dutch (Standard) </td></tr>
<tr><td>nl-be</td><td>Dutch (Belgium) </td><td>en</td><td>English </td></tr>
<tr><td>en-us</td><td>English (United States) </td><td>en-gb</td><td>English (United Kingdom) </td></tr>
<tr><td>en-au</td><td>English (Australia) </td><td>en-ca</td><td>English (Canada) </td></tr>
<tr><td>en-nz</td><td>English (New Zealand) </td><td>en-ie</td><td>English (Ireland) </td></tr>
<tr><td>en-za</td><td>English (South Africa) </td><td>en-jm</td><td>English (Jamaica) </td></tr>
<tr><td>en</td><td>English (Caribbean) </td><td>en-bz</td><td>English (Belize) </td></tr>
<tr><td>en-tt</td><td>English (Trinidad) </td><td>et</td><td>Estonian </td></tr>
<tr><td>fo</td><td>Faeroese </td><td>fa</td><td>Farsi </td></tr>
<tr><td>fi</td><td>Finnish </td><td>fr</td><td>French (Standard) </td></tr>
<tr><td>fr-be</td><td>French (Belgium) </td><td>fr-ca</td><td>French (Canada) </td></tr>
<tr><td>fr-ch</td><td>French (Switzerland) </td><td>fr-lu</td><td>French (Luxembourg) </td></tr>
<tr><td>gd</td><td>Gaelic (Scotland) </td><td>ga</td><td>Irish </td></tr>
<tr><td>de</td><td>German (Standard) </td><td>de-ch</td><td>German (Switzerland) </td></tr>
<tr><td>de-at</td><td>German (Austria) </td><td>de-lu</td><td>German (Luxembourg) </td></tr>
<tr><td>de-li</td><td>German (Liechtenstein) </td><td>el</td><td>Greek </td></tr>
<tr><td>he</td><td>Hebrew </td><td>hi</td><td>Hindi </td></tr>
<tr><td>hu</td><td>Hungarian </td><td>is</td><td>Icelandic </td></tr>
<tr><td>id</td><td>Indonesian </td><td>it</td><td>Italian (Standard) </td></tr>
<tr><td>it-ch</td><td>Italian (Switzerland) </td><td>ja</td><td>Japanese </td></tr>
<tr><td>ko</td><td>Korean </td><td>ko</td><td>Korean (Johab) </td></tr>
<tr><td>lv</td><td>Latvian </td><td>lt</td><td>Lithuanian </td></tr>
<tr><td>mk</td><td>Macedonian (FYROM)</td><td>ms</td><td>Malaysian </td></tr>
<tr><td>mt</td><td>Maltese </td><td>no</td><td>Norwegian (Bokmal) </td></tr>
<tr><td>no</td><td>Norwegian (Nynorsk) </td><td>pl</td><td>Polish </td></tr>
<tr><td>pt-br</td><td>Portuguese (Brazil) </td><td>pt</td><td>Portuguese (Portugal) </td></tr>
<tr><td>rm</td><td>Rhaeto-Romanic </td><td>ro</td><td>Romanian </td></tr>
<tr><td>ro-mo</td><td>Romanian (Republic of Moldova) </td><td>ru</td><td>Russian </td></tr>
<tr><td>ru-mo</td><td>Russian (Republic of Moldova) </td><td>sz</td><td>Sami (Lappish) </td></tr>
<tr><td>sr</td><td>Serbian (Cyrillic) </td><td>sr</td><td>Serbian (Latin) </td></tr>
<tr><td>sk</td><td>Slovak </td><td>sl</td><td>Slovenian </td></tr>
<tr><td>sb</td><td>Sorbian </td><td>es</td><td>Spanish (Spain) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-mx</td><td>Spanish (Mexico) </td><td>es-gt</td><td>Spanish (Guatemala) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-cr</td><td>Spanish (Costa Rica) </td><td>es-pa</td><td>Spanish (Panama) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-do</td><td>Spanish (Dominican Republic) </td><td>es-ve</td><td>Spanish (Venezuela) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-co</td><td>Spanish (Colombia) </td><td>es-pe</td><td>Spanish (Peru) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-ar</td><td>Spanish (Argentina) </td><td>es-ec</td><td>Spanish (Ecuador) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-cl</td><td>Spanish (Chile) </td><td>es-uy</td><td>Spanish (Uruguay) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-py</td><td>Spanish (Paraguay) </td><td>es-bo</td><td>Spanish (Bolivia) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-sv</td><td>Spanish (El Salvador) </td><td>es-hn</td><td>Spanish (Honduras) </td></tr>
<tr><td>es-ni</td><td>Spanish (Nicaragua) </td><td>es-pr</td><td>Spanish (Puerto Rico) </td></tr>
<tr><td>sx</td><td>Sutu </td><td>sv</td><td>Swedish </td></tr>
<tr><td>sv-fi</td><td>Swedish (Finland) </td><td>th</td><td>Thai </td></tr>
<tr><td>ts</td><td>Tsonga </td><td>tn</td><td>Tswana </td></tr>
<tr><td>tr</td><td>Turkish </td><td>uk</td><td>Ukrainian </td></tr>
<tr><td>ur</td><td>Urdu </td><td>ve</td><td>Venda </td></tr>
<tr><td>vi</td><td>Vietnamese </td><td>xh</td><td>Xhosa </td></tr>
<tr><td>ji</td><td>Yiddish </td><td>zu</td><td>Zulu </td></tr>
';
error_reporting(E_PARSE | E_ERROR);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($strLcodes);
$xml = simplexml_import_dom($dom);
$path = $xml->xpath('//td');
echo "<pre>";
$strpath = implode('|',$path);
echo str_replace(' |', '<br/>',$strpath);
echo "</pre>";
?>
If you want to have more choice (e.g. the name of the languages for display in other languages and so on and so forth), take a look into the Common Language Data Repository (CLDR) by the Unicode Consortium.
http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main
You will find easily parseable XML files that contain information about those codes (and other stuff) collected by many individuals all over the planet with the aim to make this more accessible.
You can easily checkout the directories out from there with svn, use RecursiveDirectoryIterator and then DOMDocument and DOMXPath to aquire the information.