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Locale::acceptFromHttp

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(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

Tries to find out best available locale based on HTTP "Accept-Language" header

Description

Oop

Locale::acceptFromHttp(string $header): string|false

Procedural

locale_accept_from_http(string $header): string|false

Tries to find locale that can satisfy the language list that is requested by the HTTP "Accept-Language" header.

header: The string containing the "Accept-Language" header according to format in RFC 2616.

The corresponding locale identifier.

Returns false when the length of header exceeds INTL_MAX_LOCALE_LEN.

php

<?php
$locale = locale_accept_from_http($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
echo $locale;
?>

OO example

php

<?php
$locale = Locale::acceptFromHttp($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']);
echo $locale;
?>

The above example will output:

output

en_US