display a date in particular format from month array in php

Question

I have a php code as shown below in which there is an array of french months.

<?php
$months = array(
    1 => "janvier",
    2 => "février",
    3 => "mars",
    4 => "avril",
    5 => "mai",
    6 => "juin",
    7 => "juillet",
    8 => "août",
    9 => "septembre",
    10 => "octobre",
    11 => "novembre",
    12 => "décembre",
);
?>

Problem Statement:

What I want to achieve is I want to display a date in the following format:

08 août 2020

For the first day of the month, append er to the number:

e.g. 1er août 2020

This is what I have tried. Although it's working as Line A prints 08 août 2020 but I am wondering if its gonna work in all cases. All cases here means for all days of the month.

I have hardcoded the value at Line Z but it will change.

<?php
$months = array(
    1 => "janvier",
    2 => "février",
    3 => "mars",
    4 => "avril",
    5 => "mai",
    6 => "juin",
    7 => "juillet",
    8 => "août",
    9 => "septembre",
    10 => "octobre",
    11 => "novembre",
    12 => "décembre",
);
$this_date="2020-08-08";   // Line Z 
$this_time = strtotime($this_date);
$day = date('d', $this_time);
$month = date('n', $this_time);
$month_fr = $months[$month];
$suffix = $day == 1 ? 'er' : '';
$formatted_new_fr = strftime("%d$suffix " . $month_fr . " %Y", $this_time);
echo $formatted_new_fr;  // Line A
?>

I was about to post some tips, but they're more code review than anything else. I think this question doesn't fit this site as it doesn't actually specify a problem (your code works, as far as you know); maybe it could be posted on https://codereview.stackexchange.com instead? (Be sure to read their help pages first.) — IMSoP, Aug 08 '20 at 17:05
@xNoJustice What does timezone have to do with month names? Are you confusing it with "locale"? — IMSoP, Aug 08 '20 at 17:06

SirPilan · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-08T18:24:22.810

PHP got you covered :)

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'fr_FR');

$dateString = '2020-08-08';
$timestamp = strtotime($dateString);
$formattedDate = strftime('%d %B %Y', $timestamp);
//setlocale(LC_ALL, Locale::getDefault()); // restore (if neccessary)

echo utf8_encode($formattedDate);

output

08 août 2020

Working example.

To get the 1er day you can do what you already did. Just split up the strftime(or its result).

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another solution (will display all days ordinally though)

$locale = 'fr_FR';
$dateString = '2020-08-01';
$date = new DateTimeImmutable($dateString);
$dateFormatter = new IntlDateFormatter(
    $locale,
    IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
    NULL
);

$numberFormatter = new NumberFormatter($locale, NumberFormatter::ORDINAL);
$ordinalDay = $numberFormatter->format($date->format('d'));
$dateFormatter->setPattern('LLLL Y');

echo $ordinalDay . ' ' . $dateFormatter->format($date->getTimestamp());

output

1er août 2020

Working example.

display a date in particular format from month array in php

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another solution (will display all days ordinally though)

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