Get the locale used by formatter

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# IntlDateFormatter::getLocale

# datefmt_get_locale

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

IntlDateFormatter::getLocale -- datefmt_get_locale — Get the locale used by formatter

### Description

Object oriented style

public string IntlDateFormatter::getLocale ([ int `$which` ] )

Procedural style

string datefmt_get_locale ( IntlDateFormatter `$fmt` [, int `$which` ] )

Get locale used by the formatter.

### Parameters

`fmt`

  The formatter resource

`hich`

  You can choose between valid and actual locale ( `Locale::VALID_LOCALE`, `Locale::ACTUAL_LOCALE`, respectively). The default is the actual locale.

### Return Values

the locale of this formatter or 'false' if error

### Examples

Example #1 datefmt_get_locale() example

`<?php
$fmt = datefmt_create(
'en_US',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'locale of the formatter is : " . datefmt_get_locale($fmt);
echo 'First Formatted output is " . datefmt_format($fmt, 0);
$fmt = datefmt_create(
'de-DE',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'locale of the formatter is : ' . datefmt_get_locale($fmt);
echo 'Second Formatted output is ' . datefmt_format($fmt, 0);
?>`

Example #2 OO example

`<?php
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter(
'en_US',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'locale of the formatter is : ' . $fmt->getLocale();
echo 'First Formatted output is ' . $fmt->format(0);
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter(
'de-DE',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN
);
echo 'locale of the formatter is : ' . $fmt->getLocale();
echo 'Second Formatted output is ' . $fmt->format(0);
?>`

The above example will output:

    locale of the formatter is : en
    First Formatted output is Wednesday, December 31, 1969 4:00:00 PM PT
    locale of the formatter is : de
    Second Formatted output is Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 1969 16:00 Uhr GMT-08:00

### See Also

- datefmt_create() - Create a date formatter

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