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Locale::getDefault

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

Gets the default locale value from the INTL global 'default_locale'

Description

Oop

Locale::getDefault(): string

Procedural

locale_get_default(): string

Gets the default locale value. At the PHP initialization this value is set to 'intl.default_locale' value from Ini if that value exists or from ICU's function uloc_getDefault().

Parameters

Return Values

The current runtime locale

Examples

locale_get_default() example

php
<?php
ini_set('intl.default_locale', 'de-DE');
echo locale_get_default();
echo '; ';
locale_set_default('fr');
echo locale_get_default();
?>

OO example

php
<?php
ini_set('intl.default_locale', 'de-DE');
echo Locale::getDefault();
echo '; ';
Locale::setDefault('fr');
echo Locale::getDefault();
?>

The above example will output:

output
de-DE; fr

See Also

Source: reference/intl/locale/get-default.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)