Proper months localisation

[LazyBadger]

OK, I cast Garvin or somebody with power in Smarty!
Because strftime (behind formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY) even with setlocale() doesn't do (and can't) it excellent for languages, which have cases forms (Kasusendungen, Ich richtig gesagt?). %B always generates ucfirst'ed nominative, but language rules may require different form - lowercased genitive , f.e for Russian and some other East European languages.
I know, it can be easy solved by additional modifier (it's one-string-function in pure PHP)

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return strtr(date(....), $langmonth);

where $langmonth is hash from serendipity_lang_*.inc.php with bad and good month's writing, but - how to get this array inside new Smarty-modifier definition?

Just example
Четверг, 3 Март 2011 => Четверг, 3 марта 2011

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Wow. I don't unterstand a thing.

You can create/edit a custom config.inc.php file inside your template's directory, and add a code like this:

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<?php
function mydate($timestamp)  {

  return strtr(...);
}

$serendipity['smarty']->register_modifier('mydate', 'mydate');

and then in smarty, everywherre you want your custom date you can use {$entry.timestamp|@mydate}...

Does that help?

Regards,
Garvin

[LazyBadger]

...
Does that help?

Somehow,partially. Because:
- I see it not only as my personal problem, but - rather common situation here, and template-based modifier will not solve it for everybody;
- I haven't troubles to place my modifier in bundled-libs/Smarty/libs/plugins/modifier.localmonth.php, but still have the same missing of knowledge - how (correctly) have array from lang-file accessible from my code (I didn't read source, I don't know, are there all constants from lang-files GLOBAL or smth. else).

Is it more clean now?

[Timbalu]

(I didn't read source, I don't know, are there all constants from lang-files GLOBAL or smth. else).
Is it more clean now?

Not really.
You can access CONSTANTS globally if set by serendipity (and plugins?). But why in modifiers?
To come back to you problem...
You mean eastern blogs get month names as a short version like 'Mar' and you would like to have 'March'?
Where does that happen?

[LazyBadger]

Not really.

Going to knock my head against the wall, completely forgotten how to clearly explain the problem

You mean eastern blogs get month names as a short version like 'Mar' and you would like to have 'March'?Where does that happen?

Not exactly, %B from '%A, %e %B %Y' (DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY) in {$entry.timestamp|@formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY} shows full month name, as it must be, but with uppercased fist letter and nominative (it's correct for %B and strftime), when correct form (in context) is lowercase genitive. It happens in entries.tpl,when I have to output date. Compare char-by-char (top-right on page)
Понедельник, 7 Март 2011
Понедельник, 7 марта 2011

if I'll add one more pipe to $entry.timestamp, I'll solve problem globally

[Timbalu]

Ah I see, and the modifier lower, the smarty equivalent to PHPs strtolower()

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{$entry.timestamp|@formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY|lower} 

is not working as expected?

Edit: The month name is not a CONSTANT, it is PHP internally build in and cannot be modified directly. But you can modify the result like lower, upper, etc.

[Timbalu]

You could even use CSS

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.serendipity_entryFooter .YOUR_PLACE { text-transform: lowercase; /* force text to lower */ }

[LazyBadger]

Ah I see, and the modifier lower, the smarty equivalent to PHPs strtolower()

But still in incorrect casing. To avoid scaring the Cyrillic alphabet, show example without it
Martā, Marts 7 - March, March 7 (Latvian)
Martxa, martxoaren 7 - March, March 7 (Bacque)
U ožujku, 7. ožujka - March, March 7 (Croatian)
Märtsil. 7. märts - March. March 7 (Estonian)
Maaliskuuta. 7 maaliskuu - March. March 7 (Finnish)
Marzo. 7 de marzo - March. March 7 (Galician)
Março. 7 de março - March. March 7 (Portuguese)

[LazyBadger]

Edit: The month name is not a CONSTANT

I can add my own data to lang-file, and I think about hash with months names 'before'=>'after'

[Timbalu]

Interesting, but Confusing!
I still do not understand what you mean with casing?
What you have and what you want?
Why you are talking about constants at all? Edit:(ok I missed your second answer)-but why can't you use the upsizing or downsizing features via smarty or css?
???
'M' seems to be latin not Cyrillic, 'GMail' in text ist latinized, Cyrillic text is flatened, but 'В' and 'Ф' in Воскресенье, 27 Февраль 2011, need to get sized down, is that right?

Did you try with |upper ?

[Timbalu]

If I use CSS at you site

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.serendipity_date {
    text-transform: lowercase;
}

it looks quite ok for me.....

[LazyBadger]

Interesting, but Confusing!
I still do not understand what you mean with casing?

Buchen liegt.
Ich legte das Buch.
Ich bin zufrieden mit dem Buch

What you have and what you want?

Get date according to local language rules instead of formal translation for now

Cyrillic text is flatened, but 'В' and 'Ф' in Воскресенье, 27 Февраль 2011, need to get sized down, is that right?

No, do nothing with weekday name, modify only month
Февраль - февраля
In Bacque example (for pure US-ASCII): Martxa -> martxoaren

[Timbalu]

What you have and what you want?

Get date according to local language rules instead of formal translation for now
No, do nothing with weekday name, modify only month

Ahhh, now the clouds are clearing up for me.
This seems to me like a PHP problem you should give back to the PHP developers, if the date('B') does not follow your local language rules.
Did you try something with you locale?

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  $locale = 'Czech_Czech.1250';
  $res = setlocale( 'LC_CTYPE', $locale); //important
  $res = setlocale( 'LC_TIME', $locale);
  echo strftime( '%A %m. %B %Y', mktime( 0,0,0,9,6,2001));

If this is all useless you have to modify the Smarty formatTime modifier or create your own as adviced by Garvin.

[LazyBadger]

Did you try something with you locale?

Serendipity do it for me even now in serendipity_config.inc.php,without it I'll get only English names

[Timbalu]

Just dropped in again with another idea....

How about doing some sort of splitting the DATE_FORMAT_ENTRY in the lang en file or in your custom config.inc.php file

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@define('DATE_FORMAT_SPLIT_ENTRY_DAY', ''%A, %e');
@define('DATE_FORMAT_SPLIT_ENTRY_MONTH', ''%B');
@define('DATE_FORMAT_SPLIT_ENTRY_YEAR', ''%Y');

and in entries.tpl

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{$entry.timestamp|@formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_SPLIT_ENTRY_DAY|@formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_SPLIT_ENTRY_MONTH|lower|@formatTime:DATE_FORMAT_SPLIT_ENTRY_YEAR} 

This should do what you want...