PHP date - get name of the months in local language

Question

I have this part of the function, which gives me name of the months in English. How can I translate them to my local language (Serbian)?

$month_name = date(\         


        

Answer 1

Here is an example with IntlDateFormatter

$format = new IntlDateFormatter('sr_CS', IntlDateFormatter::NONE, 
              IntlDateFormatter::NONE, NULL, NULL, "MMM");
$monthName = datefmt_format($format, mktime(0, 0, 0, $i));