Display date in different languages

Question

On our store we have a blog where we show the "created_at" date of the entity. But we show the same post to 5 different languages. Of course the content is translated but we don't know how we should translate the date.

Currently we display it like this:

$date = date("d F, Y", strtotime($date)); // $date = 2019-04-16 08:45:25
echo "<span> " . $date . "</span>";

This outputs something like this:

Our main problem here is that the month is in english in all our languages. Is there a way to translate just the month?

PS: According to our PM just using the month number is not an option.

Answer 1

To format dates in other languages, you should use the setlocale() and strftime() functions.

<?php
setlocale(LC_TIME, "fr_FR"); // Here fr_FR is your translation locale
echo strftime("%d %B, %Y");
?>

Hope it finds helpful.