You don't have to have a fully-formed locale for the first parameter. This makes the function useful for getting the country name from any locale:
<?php
var_dump(Locale::getDisplayRegion('-US', 'fr'));
//Returns
string 'États-Unis' (length=11)
?>
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
Locale::getDisplayRegion -- locale_get_display_region — Returns an appropriately localized display name for region of the input locale
Object oriented style
$locale
[, string $in_locale
] )Procedural style
$locale
[, string $in_locale
] )
Returns an appropriately localized display name for region of the input
locale. If is NULL then the default locale is used.
localeThe locale to return a display region for.
in_localeOptional format locale to use to display the region name
display name of the region for the $locale in the format appropriate for $in_locale.
Example #1 locale_get_display_region() example
<?php
echo locale_get_display_region('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en');
echo ";\n";
echo locale_get_display_region('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr');
echo ";\n";
echo locale_get_display_region('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de');
?>
Example #2 OO example
<?php
echo Locale::getDisplayRegion('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en');
echo ";\n";
echo Locale::getDisplayRegion('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr');
echo ";\n";
echo Locale::getDisplayRegion('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de');
?>
The above example will output:
Italy; Italie; Italien
You don't have to have a fully-formed locale for the first parameter. This makes the function useful for getting the country name from any locale:
<?php
var_dump(Locale::getDisplayRegion('-US', 'fr'));
//Returns
string 'États-Unis' (length=11)
?>