PHP Date function output in Italian

Question

I am trying to output dates in the Italian format using date() as follows:

Answer 1

After a lot of attempts, this is the solution works like charm:

STEP 1: We will set the localization and time zone (upper page)

// ====> Localizzazione

    setlocale(LC_TIME, 'ita', 'it_IT');        // Italiano
    date_default_timezone_set("Europe/Rome");  // Ora

STEP 2: We make a function for easily convert when we need (wherever into page)

//=============== Funzione formattazione data
function f_date_time($f_date, $f_date_info) {

    if (strlen($f_date) > 7){
        $dateToParse = $f_date;
    }else{
        $dateToParse = date("YmdHis");
    }


    switch ($f_date_info) {
        case 1: //20191130
            echo date("Ymd");
            break;
        case 2: //30/11/19
            echo utf8_encode(strftime('%d/%m/%y', strtotime($dateToParse)));
            break;
        case 3: //30/11/2019
            echo utf8_encode(strftime('%d/%m/%Y', strtotime($dateToParse)));
            break;
        case 4: //30/11/2019 15:27:50
            echo utf8_encode(strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S', strtotime($dateToParse)));
            break;
        case 5: //Saturday 30
            echo utf8_encode(strftime('%A %d', strtotime($dateToParse)));
            break;
        case 6: //Saturday 30 November
            echo utf8_encode(strftime('%A %d %B', strtotime($dateToParse)));
            break;
        case 7: //Saturday 30 November 2019
            echo utf8_encode(strftime('%A %d %B %Y', strtotime($dateToParse)));
            break;
        case 8: //Saturday 30 November 2019 ore 15:27:50
            echo utf8_encode(strftime('%A %d %B %Y %H:%M:%S', strtotime($dateToParse)));
            break;          
        default: //20191130152750
            echo date("YmdHis");;
    }

}

STEP 3: Now to convert your data just use the function (wherever into your code)

$today = "20190320234500"; //Format yyyymmddhhmmss

echo f_date_time($today, 1) . "\n";
echo f_date_time($today, 2) . "\n";
echo f_date_time($today, 3) . "\n";
echo f_date_time($today, 4) . "\n";
echo f_date_time($today, 5) . "\n";
echo f_date_time($today, 6) . "\n";
echo f_date_time($today, 7) . "\n";
echo f_date_time($today, 8) . "\n";

OUTPUT: will be somethink like this:

20191231
20/03/74
20/03/1974
20/03/1974 23:45:00
mercoledì 20
mercoledì 20 marzo
mercoledì 20 marzo 1974
mercoledì 20 marzo 1974 23:45:00

PS: happy birday to me :-)