DateFormatter Class Reference

Date formatter. More...

Public Member Functions
	__construct (Language $lang)
	reformat ( $preference, $text, $options=[])

Static Public Member Functions
static	getInstance (Language $lang=null)
	Get a DateFormatter object.

Detailed Description

Date formatter.

Recognises dates and formats them according to a specified preference.

This class was originally introduced to detect and transform dates in free text. It is now only used by the {{#dateformat}} parser function. This is a very rudimentary date formatter; Language::sprintfDate() has many more features and is the correct choice for most new code. The main advantage of this date formatter is that it is able to format incomplete dates with an unspecified year.

Definition at line 38 of file DateFormatter.php.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

__construct()

DateFormatter::__construct

(

Language

$lang

)

Parameters

Language

$lang

In which language to format the date

Definition at line 126 of file DateFormatter.php.

References Language\getMonthAbbreviation(), and Language\getMonthName().

Member Function Documentation

getInstance()

static DateFormatter::getInstance ( Language $lang = null )

static

Get a DateFormatter object.

Deprecated

since 1.33 use MediaWikiServices::getDateFormatterFactory()

Parameters

Language | null

$lang

In which language to format the date Defaults to the site content language

Returns

DateFormatter

Definition at line 165 of file DateFormatter.php.

reformat()

DateFormatter::reformat	(		$preference,
			$text,
			$options = [] )

Parameters

string	$preference	User preference, must be one of "default", "dmy", "mdy", "ymd" or "ISO 8601".
string	$text	Text to reformat
array	$options	Ignored. Since 1.33, 'match-whole' is implied, and 'linked' has been removed.

Returns

string

Definition at line 179 of file DateFormatter.php.

References $source.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• includes/parser/DateFormatter.php