PHP setlocale not working even with locales existing

Question

ISSUE RESOLVED (see below)

I have generated the locales on my server, I have confirmed that they exist (my locale -a provided below), but when I use:

    setlocale(LC_TIME,'fr_FR');
    or setlocale(LC_TIME,'fr_FR.utf8');

it doesn't work at all.

Sample:

    <?php
    setlocale(LC_TIME,'fr_FR.utf8');
    echo 'locale - '.setlocale(LC_TIME,'0');
    echo ' : month - '.strftime('%B');
    echo '<br />';

    setlocale(LC_TIME,'fr_FR');
    echo 'locale - '.setlocale(LC_TIME,'0');
    echo ' : month - '.strftime('%B');
    echo '<br />';

    setlocale(LC_TIME,'fr-FR');
    echo 'locale - '.setlocale(LC_TIME,'0');
    echo ' : month - '.strftime('%B');
    echo '<br />';

    setlocale(LC_TIME,'fr');
    echo 'locale - '.setlocale(LC_TIME,'0');
    echo ' : month - '.strftime('%B');
    echo '<br />';

    setlocale(LC_TIME,'french');
    echo 'locale - '.setlocale(LC_TIME,'0');
    echo ' : month - '.strftime('%B');
    echo '<br />';
    ?>

Results:

    locale - C : month - October
    locale - C : month - October
    locale - C : month - October
    locale - C : month - October
    locale - C : month - October

locale -a (showing the fr locales):

    fr_BE.utf8
    fr_CA.utf8
    fr_CH.utf8
    fr_FR.utf8
    fr_LU.utf8

Thank you for the help!

Answer 1

okay, after posting this, I tried one more thing. So for those experiencing the same issue, you need to set this first before setting the new locale:

setlocale(LC_TIME, "");

Answer 2

You have to restart php before use new installed locales.

Answer 3

If you want to use the system default locale in Apache2, you just need to add (or uncomment) the following line in the /etc/apache2/envvars file :

. /etc/default/locale

Think to restart apache2 after this operation and clear your potential cache to check locale is well given to PHP.