Chapter 8. Working with Date/Time and International Aspects
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Using emoticons or emoji in a view script
- Converting complex characters
- Getting the locale from browser data
- Formatting numbers by locale
- Handling currency by locale
- Formatting date/time by locale
- Creating an HTML international calendar generator
- Building a recurring events generator
- Handling translation without gettext
Introduction
We will start this chapter with two recipes that take advantage of a new Unicode escape syntax introduced with PHP 7. After that, we will cover how to determine a web visitor's locale from browser data. The next few recipes will cover the creation of a locale class, which will allow you to represent numbers, currency, ...
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