[Chapter 14 Transliteration And Locale]

I still vaguely understand how to implement transliterator method. I guess, I have to construct a transliterator object first but I don't know how to perform this task. As for the locale script, I got it to work without errors but it does not show any other locales except for the default one. Here's what I've tried so far:

 

<?php

 

//Set the default timezone:

date_default_timezone_set('UTC');

 

//Need a date object:

//$d = new DateTime();

 

//Create a list of locales:

$locales = array ('en_US', 'fr_FR', 'es_BO', 'zh_Hans_CN', 'ru_RU',

'el_GR', 'is_IS');

 

//Print the date in each locale:

foreach ($locales as $locale){

 

//Set the locale:

locale_set_default($locale);

 

//Print the date:

setlocale(LC_ALL, $locale);

echo "<p>$locale: ".

strftime('%A, %#d %B %Y'). "</p>\n";

 

}

 

?>

[Chapter 14 Transliteration And Locale]

I have a couple of questions.

 

First, in script 14.4 transliteration does not work. Namely, the function str_translitearte() is undefined. I checked on the web and it looks like this function does not exist. I updated my library to include internationalization package and so far I had no problems (even with Collator) but this function is nevertheless undefined. In php manual I was able to find transliterator_transliterate() function but it looks like this function is in its development, for no arguments and implementations are given. Can you give some advise on how I can have the function to work? My php version is 5.3.8.

 

Second, in script 14.5 locales, strtotitle() and date_format_locale() are undefined. As I understand these functions did not come to existence yet since no PHP 6 is released. However, I tried to follow advise on Book's sidebar "Locales in PHP 5" and used a setlocale() function, which did not work as well. Is there an alternative solution? Thank you in advance.