In Java, you can call Locale.getAvailableLocales() to get the list of available locales.
I was expecting an equivalent from the PHP Locale class, but could not find one.
Is there a way to get an array of all valid Locales?
Part of the confusion here is that PHP has two concepts called "locale" that are pretty much totally separate.
The first is the older one, which basically just uses the C locale features. That's what's behind setlocale and the locale support in some of PHP's functions (like money_format for example). This is what other answers that mention running locale -a on the command line and using setlocale are talking about.
PHP's Locale class and the other related functionality from the intl extension is newer, and doesn't work the same way. Instead of using the libc locale stuff, it uses a library called ICU, which ships its own locale data. PHP does provide a method to determine which locales are supported by this system: ResourceBundle::getLocales. The documentation is a little wooly here, but you can call this as a static method and pass the blank string to use ICU's default resources, thus getting a list of the supported locales for intl:
ResourceBundle::getLocales('');
I don't think there is a built in functions for this. You need to ask the operating system which locales are installed.
For example, if you run on a unix system you will need to execute the command:
$ locale -a
I also now solved this problem. Here's what happened.
<?php
return array(
'aa_DJ' => 'Afar (Djibouti)',
'aa_ER' => 'Afar (Eritrea)',
'aa_ET' => 'Afar (Ethiopia)',
'af_ZA' => 'Afrikaans (South Africa)',
'sq_AL' => 'Albanian (Albania)',
'sq_MK' => 'Albanian (Macedonia)',
'am_ET' => 'Amharic (Ethiopia)',
'ar_DZ' => 'Arabic (Algeria)',
'ar_BH' => 'Arabic (Bahrain)',
'ar_EG' => 'Arabic (Egypt)',
'ar_IN' => 'Arabic (India)',
'ar_IQ' => 'Arabic (Iraq)',
'ar_JO' => 'Arabic (Jordan)',
'ar_KW' => 'Arabic (Kuwait)',
'ar_LB' => 'Arabic (Lebanon)',
'ar_LY' => 'Arabic (Libya)',
'ar_MA' => 'Arabic (Morocco)',
'ar_OM' => 'Arabic (Oman)',
'ar_QA' => 'Arabic (Qatar)',
'ar_SA' => 'Arabic (Saudi Arabia)',
'ar_SD' => 'Arabic (Sudan)',
'ar_SY' => 'Arabic (Syria)',
'ar_TN' => 'Arabic (Tunisia)',
'ar_AE' => 'Arabic (United Arab Emirates)',
'ar_YE' => 'Arabic (Yemen)',
'an_ES' => 'Aragonese (Spain)',
'hy_AM' => 'Armenian (Armenia)',
'as_IN' => 'Assamese (India)',
'ast_ES' => 'Asturian (Spain)',
'az_AZ' => 'Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)',
'az_TR' => 'Azerbaijani (Turkey)',
'eu_FR' => 'Basque (France)',
'eu_ES' => 'Basque (Spain)',
'be_BY' => 'Belarusian (Belarus)',
'bem_ZM' => 'Bemba (Zambia)',
'bn_BD' => 'Bengali (Bangladesh)',
'bn_IN' => 'Bengali (India)',
'ber_DZ' => 'Berber (Algeria)',
'ber_MA' => 'Berber (Morocco)',
'byn_ER' => 'Blin (Eritrea)',
'bs_BA' => 'Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)',
'br_FR' => 'Breton (France)',
'bg_BG' => 'Bulgarian (Bulgaria)',
'my_MM' => 'Burmese (Myanmar [Burma])',
'ca_AD' => 'Catalan (Andorra)',
'ca_FR' => 'Catalan (France)',
'ca_IT' => 'Catalan (Italy)',
'ca_ES' => 'Catalan (Spain)',
'zh_CN' => 'Chinese (China)',
'zh_HK' => 'Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)',
'zh_SG' => 'Chinese (Singapore)',
'zh_TW' => 'Chinese (Taiwan)',
'cv_RU' => 'Chuvash (Russia)',
'kw_GB' => 'Cornish (United Kingdom)',
'crh_UA' => 'Crimean Turkish (Ukraine)',
'hr_HR' => 'Croatian (Croatia)',
'cs_CZ' => 'Czech (Czech Republic)',
'da_DK' => 'Danish (Denmark)',
'dv_MV' => 'Divehi (Maldives)',
'nl_AW' => 'Dutch (Aruba)',
'nl_BE' => 'Dutch (Belgium)',
'nl_NL' => 'Dutch (Netherlands)',
'dz_BT' => 'Dzongkha (Bhutan)',
'en_AG' => 'English (Antigua and Barbuda)',
'en_AU' => 'English (Australia)',
'en_BW' => 'English (Botswana)',
'en_CA' => 'English (Canada)',
'en_DK' => 'English (Denmark)',
'en_HK' => 'English (Hong Kong SAR China)',
'en_IN' => 'English (India)',
'en_IE' => 'English (Ireland)',
'en_NZ' => 'English (New Zealand)',
'en_NG' => 'English (Nigeria)',
'en_PH' => 'English (Philippines)',
'en_SG' => 'English (Singapore)',
'en_ZA' => 'English (South Africa)',
'en_GB' => 'English (United Kingdom)',
'en_US' => 'English (United States)',
'en_ZM' => 'English (Zambia)',
'en_ZW' => 'English (Zimbabwe)',
'eo' => 'Esperanto',
'et_EE' => 'Estonian (Estonia)',
'fo_FO' => 'Faroese (Faroe Islands)',
'fil_PH' => 'Filipino (Philippines)',
'fi_FI' => 'Finnish (Finland)',
'fr_BE' => 'French (Belgium)',
'fr_CA' => 'French (Canada)',
'fr_FR' => 'French (France)',
'fr_LU' => 'French (Luxembourg)',
'fr_CH' => 'French (Switzerland)',
'fur_IT' => 'Friulian (Italy)',
'ff_SN' => 'Fulah (Senegal)',
'gl_ES' => 'Galician (Spain)',
'lg_UG' => 'Ganda (Uganda)',
'gez_ER' => 'Geez (Eritrea)',
'gez_ET' => 'Geez (Ethiopia)',
'ka_GE' => 'Georgian (Georgia)',
'de_AT' => 'German (Austria)',
'de_BE' => 'German (Belgium)',
'de_DE' => 'German (Germany)',
'de_LI' => 'German (Liechtenstein)',
'de_LU' => 'German (Luxembourg)',
'de_CH' => 'German (Switzerland)',
'el_CY' => 'Greek (Cyprus)',
'el_GR' => 'Greek (Greece)',
'gu_IN' => 'Gujarati (India)',
'ht_HT' => 'Haitian (Haiti)',
'ha_NG' => 'Hausa (Nigeria)',
'iw_IL' => 'Hebrew (Israel)',
'he_IL' => 'Hebrew (Israel)',
'hi_IN' => 'Hindi (India)',
'hu_HU' => 'Hungarian (Hungary)',
'is_IS' => 'Icelandic (Iceland)',
'ig_NG' => 'Igbo (Nigeria)',
'id_ID' => 'Indonesian (Indonesia)',
'ia' => 'Interlingua',
'iu_CA' => 'Inuktitut (Canada)',
'ik_CA' => 'Inupiaq (Canada)',
'ga_IE' => 'Irish (Ireland)',
'it_IT' => 'Italian (Italy)',
'it_CH' => 'Italian (Switzerland)',
'ja_JP' => 'Japanese (Japan)',
'kl_GL' => 'Kalaallisut (Greenland)',
'kn_IN' => 'Kannada (India)',
'ks_IN' => 'Kashmiri (India)',
'csb_PL' => 'Kashubian (Poland)',
'kk_KZ' => 'Kazakh (Kazakhstan)',
'km_KH' => 'Khmer (Cambodia)',
'rw_RW' => 'Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)',
'ky_KG' => 'Kirghiz (Kyrgyzstan)',
'kok_IN' => 'Konkani (India)',
'ko_KR' => 'Korean (South Korea)',
'ku_TR' => 'Kurdish (Turkey)',
'lo_LA' => 'Lao (Laos)',
'lv_LV' => 'Latvian (Latvia)',
'li_BE' => 'Limburgish (Belgium)',
'li_NL' => 'Limburgish (Netherlands)',
'lt_LT' => 'Lithuanian (Lithuania)',
'nds_DE' => 'Low German (Germany)',
'nds_NL' => 'Low German (Netherlands)',
'mk_MK' => 'Macedonian (Macedonia)',
'mai_IN' => 'Maithili (India)',
'mg_MG' => 'Malagasy (Madagascar)',
'ms_MY' => 'Malay (Malaysia)',
'ml_IN' => 'Malayalam (India)',
'mt_MT' => 'Maltese (Malta)',
'gv_GB' => 'Manx (United Kingdom)',
'mi_NZ' => 'Maori (New Zealand)',
'mr_IN' => 'Marathi (India)',
'mn_MN' => 'Mongolian (Mongolia)',
'ne_NP' => 'Nepali (Nepal)',
'se_NO' => 'Northern Sami (Norway)',
'nso_ZA' => 'Northern Sotho (South Africa)',
'nb_NO' => 'Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)',
'nn_NO' => 'Norwegian Nynorsk (Norway)',
'oc_FR' => 'Occitan (France)',
'or_IN' => 'Oriya (India)',
'om_ET' => 'Oromo (Ethiopia)',
'om_KE' => 'Oromo (Kenya)',
'os_RU' => 'Ossetic (Russia)',
'pap_AN' => 'Papiamento (Netherlands Antilles)',
'ps_AF' => 'Pashto (Afghanistan)',
'fa_IR' => 'Persian (Iran)',
'pl_PL' => 'Polish (Poland)',
'pt_BR' => 'Portuguese (Brazil)',
'pt_PT' => 'Portuguese (Portugal)',
'pa_IN' => 'Punjabi (India)',
'pa_PK' => 'Punjabi (Pakistan)',
'ro_RO' => 'Romanian (Romania)',
'ru_RU' => 'Russian (Russia)',
'ru_UA' => 'Russian (Ukraine)',
'sa_IN' => 'Sanskrit (India)',
'sc_IT' => 'Sardinian (Italy)',
'gd_GB' => 'Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom)',
'sr_ME' => 'Serbian (Montenegro)',
'sr_RS' => 'Serbian (Serbia)',
'sid_ET' => 'Sidamo (Ethiopia)',
'sd_IN' => 'Sindhi (India)',
'si_LK' => 'Sinhala (Sri Lanka)',
'sk_SK' => 'Slovak (Slovakia)',
'sl_SI' => 'Slovenian (Slovenia)',
'so_DJ' => 'Somali (Djibouti)',
'so_ET' => 'Somali (Ethiopia)',
'so_KE' => 'Somali (Kenya)',
'so_SO' => 'Somali (Somalia)',
'nr_ZA' => 'South Ndebele (South Africa)',
'st_ZA' => 'Southern Sotho (South Africa)',
'es_AR' => 'Spanish (Argentina)',
'es_BO' => 'Spanish (Bolivia)',
'es_CL' => 'Spanish (Chile)',
'es_CO' => 'Spanish (Colombia)',
'es_CR' => 'Spanish (Costa Rica)',
'es_DO' => 'Spanish (Dominican Republic)',
'es_EC' => 'Spanish (Ecuador)',
'es_SV' => 'Spanish (El Salvador)',
'es_GT' => 'Spanish (Guatemala)',
'es_HN' => 'Spanish (Honduras)',
'es_MX' => 'Spanish (Mexico)',
'es_NI' => 'Spanish (Nicaragua)',
'es_PA' => 'Spanish (Panama)',
'es_PY' => 'Spanish (Paraguay)',
'es_PE' => 'Spanish (Peru)',
'es_ES' => 'Spanish (Spain)',
'es_US' => 'Spanish (United States)',
'es_UY' => 'Spanish (Uruguay)',
'es_VE' => 'Spanish (Venezuela)',
'sw_KE' => 'Swahili (Kenya)',
'sw_TZ' => 'Swahili (Tanzania)',
'ss_ZA' => 'Swati (South Africa)',
'sv_FI' => 'Swedish (Finland)',
'sv_SE' => 'Swedish (Sweden)',
'tl_PH' => 'Tagalog (Philippines)',
'tg_TJ' => 'Tajik (Tajikistan)',
'ta_IN' => 'Tamil (India)',
'tt_RU' => 'Tatar (Russia)',
'te_IN' => 'Telugu (India)',
'th_TH' => 'Thai (Thailand)',
'bo_CN' => 'Tibetan (China)',
'bo_IN' => 'Tibetan (India)',
'tig_ER' => 'Tigre (Eritrea)',
'ti_ER' => 'Tigrinya (Eritrea)',
'ti_ET' => 'Tigrinya (Ethiopia)',
'ts_ZA' => 'Tsonga (South Africa)',
'tn_ZA' => 'Tswana (South Africa)',
'tr_CY' => 'Turkish (Cyprus)',
'tr_TR' => 'Turkish (Turkey)',
'tk_TM' => 'Turkmen (Turkmenistan)',
'ug_CN' => 'Uighur (China)',
'uk_UA' => 'Ukrainian (Ukraine)',
'hsb_DE' => 'Upper Sorbian (Germany)',
'ur_PK' => 'Urdu (Pakistan)',
'uz_UZ' => 'Uzbek (Uzbekistan)',
've_ZA' => 'Venda (South Africa)',
'vi_VN' => 'Vietnamese (Vietnam)',
'wa_BE' => 'Walloon (Belgium)',
'cy_GB' => 'Welsh (United Kingdom)',
'fy_DE' => 'Western Frisian (Germany)',
'fy_NL' => 'Western Frisian (Netherlands)',
'wo_SN' => 'Wolof (Senegal)',
'xh_ZA' => 'Xhosa (South Africa)',
'yi_US' => 'Yiddish (United States)',
'yo_NG' => 'Yoruba (Nigeria)',
'zu_ZA' => 'Zulu (South Africa)'
);
On Windows you can try to call the setlocale() php function with all the items of the following list:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb895996.aspx
Here is a code sniplet to list all available locales on a Windows based host:
<?php
header( 'Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' );
// source of the list:
// http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39cwe7zf(v=vs.90).aspx
$langs = array(
// language, sublanguage, codes
array( 'Chinese', 'Chinese', array( 'chinese' ) ),
array( 'Chinese', 'Chinese (simplified)', array( 'chinese-simplified', 'chs' ) ),
array( 'Chinese', 'Chinese (traditional)', array( 'chinese-traditional', 'cht' ) ),
array( 'Czech', 'Czech', array( 'csy', 'czech' ) ),
array( 'Danish', 'Danish', array( 'dan', 'danish' ) ),
array( 'Dutch', 'Dutch (default)', array( 'dutch', 'nld' ) ),
array( 'Dutch', 'Dutch (Belgium)', array( 'belgian', 'dutch-belgian', 'nlb' ) ),
array( 'English', 'English (default)', array( 'english' ) ),
array( 'English', 'English (Australia)', array( 'australian', 'ena', 'english-aus' ) ),
array( 'English', 'English (Canada)', array( 'canadian', 'enc', 'english-can' ) ),
array( 'English', 'English (New Zealand)', array( 'english-nz', 'enz' ) ),
array( 'English', 'English (United Kingdom)', array( 'eng', 'english-uk', 'uk' ) ),
array( 'English', 'English (United States)', array( 'american', 'american english', 'american-english', 'english-american', 'english-us', 'english-usa', 'enu', 'us', 'usa' ) ),
array( 'Finnish', 'Finnish', array( 'fin', 'finnish' ) ),
array( 'French', 'French (default)', array( 'fra', 'french' ) ),
array( 'French', 'French (Belgium)', array( 'frb', 'french-belgian' ) ),
array( 'French', 'French (Canada)', array( 'frc', 'french-canadian' ) ),
array( 'French', 'French (Switzerland)', array( 'french-swiss', 'frs' ) ),
array( 'German', 'German (default)', array( 'deu', 'german' ) ),
array( 'German', 'German (Austria)', array( 'dea', 'german-austrian' ) ),
array( 'German', 'German (Switzerland)', array( 'des', 'german-swiss', 'swiss' ) ),
array( 'Greek', 'Greek', array( 'ell', 'greek' ) ),
array( 'Hungarian', 'Hungarian', array( 'hun', 'hungarian' ) ),
array( 'Icelandic', 'Icelandic', array( 'icelandic', 'isl' ) ),
array( 'Italian', 'Italian (default)', array( 'ita', 'italian' ) ),
array( 'Italian', 'Italian (Switzerland)', array( 'italian-swiss', 'its' ) ),
array( 'Japanese', 'Japanese', array( 'japanese', 'jpn' ) ),
array( 'Korean', 'Korean', array( 'kor', 'korean' ) ),
array( 'Norwegian', 'Norwegian (default)', array( 'norwegian' ) ),
array( 'Norwegian', 'Norwegian (Bokmal)', array( 'nor', 'norwegian-bokmal' ) ),
array( 'Norwegian', 'Norwegian (Nynorsk)', array( 'non', 'norwegian-nynorsk' ) ),
array( 'Polish', 'Polish', array( 'plk', 'polish' ) ),
array( 'Portuguese', 'Portuguese (default)', array( 'portuguese', 'ptg' ) ),
array( 'Portuguese', 'Portuguese (Brazil)', array( 'portuguese-brazilian', 'ptb' ) ),
array( 'Russian', 'Russian (default)', array( 'rus', 'russian' ) ),
array( 'Slovak', 'Slovak', array( 'sky', 'slovak' ) ),
array( 'Spanish', 'Spanish (default)', array( 'esp', 'spanish' ) ),
array( 'Spanish', 'Spanish (Mexico)', array( 'esm', 'spanish-mexican' ) ),
array( 'Spanish', 'Spanish (Modern)', array( 'esn', 'spanish-modern' ) ),
array( 'Swedish', 'Swedish', array( 'sve', 'swedish' ) ),
array( 'Turkish', 'Turkish', array( 'trk', 'turkish' ) )
);
echo '<table>'."
";
echo '<tr>'."
";
echo ' <th>Languange</th>'."
";
echo ' <th>Sub-Languange</th>'."
";
echo ' <th>Languange String</th>'."
";
echo '</tr>'."
";
foreach ( $langs as $lang ) {
echo '<tr>'."
";
echo ' <td>'.$lang[0].'</td>'."
";
echo ' <td>'.$lang[1].'</td>'."
";
$a = array();
foreach ( $lang[2] as $lang_code ) {
$loc = setlocale( LC_ALL, $lang_code );
$a []= $lang_code.' '.( false === $loc ? '✖' : '✔ - '.$loc );
}
echo ' <td>'.implode( '<br>', $a ).'</td>'."
";
echo '</tr>'."
";
}
echo '</table>'."
";
// Note: Norvegian (Bokmal) is Norvegian (Bokmål), see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokmål
?>
system("locale -a|grep XX"); where XX is language code ie. system("locale -a|grep de");
you normally need only locales that compatible with UTF-8 to use it in html
thus, the ResourceBundle is useless, but you still can call it like this
\ResourceBundle::getLocales('')
to be sure how useless it is.
So, you need to get a list of what supported by your Ubuntu (because Ubuntu is what you need)
$string = shell_exec("locale -a|grep .utf8");
$array = explode('.utf8' . "
", $string);
you will get things like en_US, ru_RU, zh_CN - whatever you installed on your ubuntu. Now take one and use it like so
$locale = $array[0].'.UTF-8';
setlocale(LC_MONETARY, $locale);
but you can install more locales on your Ubuntu