Locale Settings 

Locale Settings is a service of the Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\LocaleSettings class with the oro_locale.settings ID.

You can use this service to get locale-specific settings of the application, such as:

  • locale based on localization

  • language based on localization

  • location

  • calendar

  • time zone

  • list of person names formats

  • list of addresses formats

  • currency-specific data

    • currency symbols based on currency codes

    • currency code, phone prefix, default locale based on country

Locale 

Locale settings can provide the default application locale. This setting is based on the system configuration (oro_locale.default_localization) and vary per user. Locale is used by all formatters, such as names, addresses, numbers, dates, and times.

Example of getting current locale:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
$locale = $locale->getLocale();

Locale Settings class also provides help static methods related to locales:

  1. Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\LocaleSettings::getValidLocale validates the given locale according to the actual data of the environment. This method aims to ensure that the locale is valid in the current environment (PHP intl extension, ICU version). If locale is not supported, then the fallback valid default one is used. This method also strips all parts of locale different from Locale::LANG_TAG, Locale::SCRIPT_TAG, and Locale::REGION_TAG.

    Example of usage:

    // outputs ru_RU
echo \Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\LocaleSettings::getValidLocale('ru_RU');

// outputs en_US
echo \Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\LocaleSettings::getValidLocale('en_Hans_CN_nedis_rozaj_x_prv1_prv2');

// outputs en_US if this is a default locale
echo \Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\LocaleSettings::getValidLocale('unknown');

  2. Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\LocaleSettings::getLocales returns the list of all available locales.

  3. Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\LocaleSettings::getCountryByLocale gets country by locale. If it cannot find the result, then it returns the default country.

Language 

Locale settings provide the application language configuration. This setting is based on the system configuration (oro_locale.default_localization) and can be different per user. The application language affects translations and representation of date times. For example, if you set the locale to en_US and set the language to French, the date/times will be localized using the en_US locale formats but with the French language. To get the current language, use the following method:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
$language = $locale->getLanguage();

Calendar 

Locale settings can provide an instance of a localized Calendar class (Oro\Bundle\LocaleBundle\Model\Calendar). This class can be used to get localized calendar data based on the application locale and the application language.

An example of getting the calendar from the locale settings:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
$calendar = $locale->getCalendar();

The calendar provides the following information:

First Day of the Week 

The first day of the week depends on the locale set in the Locale Settings.

// Returns one of constants of Calendar: DOW_SUNDAY, DOW_MONDAY, DOW_TUESDAY, DOW_WEDNESDAY, DOW_THURSDAY, DOW_FRIDAY, DOW_SATURDAY
$firstDayOfWeek = $calendar->getFirstDayOfWeek();

Month Names 

Month names depends on the application language in the Locale Settings.

// [
//   1 => 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
//   'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December',
// ]
$wideMonthNames = $calendar->getMonthNames();
$wideMonthNames = $calendar->getMonthNames(Calendar::WIDTH_WIDE);

// [1 => 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
$abbreviatedMonthNames = $calendar->getMonthNames(Calendar::WIDTH_ABBREVIATED);

$shortMonthNames = $calendar->getMonthNames(Calendar::WIDTH_SHORT);

// [1 => 'J', 'F', 'M', 'A', 'M', 'J', 'J', 'A', 'S', 'O', 'N', 'D']
$narrowMonthNames = $calendar->getMonthNames(Calendar::WIDTH_NARROW);

Days of Week Names 

Names for days of the week depend on the application language in the Locale Settings.

// [
//   Calendar::DOW_SUNDAY    => 'Sunday',
//   Calendar::DOW_MONDAY    => 'Monday',
//   Calendar::DOW_TUESDAY   => 'Tuesday',
//   Calendar::DOW_WEDNESDAY => 'Wednesday',
//   Calendar::DOW_THURSDAY  => 'Thursday',
//   Calendar::DOW_FRIDAY    => 'Friday',
//   Calendar::DOW_SATURDAY  => 'Saturday',
// ];
$wideDowNames = $calendar->getDayOfWeekNames();
$wideDowNames = $calendar->getDayOfWeekNames(Calendar::WIDTH_WIDE);

// [
//   Calendar::DOW_SUNDAY    => 'Sun',
//   Calendar::DOW_MONDAY    => 'Mon',
//   Calendar::DOW_TUESDAY   => 'Tue',
//   Calendar::DOW_WEDNESDAY => 'Wed',
//   Calendar::DOW_THURSDAY  => 'Thu',
//   Calendar::DOW_FRIDAY    => 'Fri',
//   Calendar::DOW_SATURDAY  => 'Sat',
// ];
$abbreviatedDowNames = $calendar->getDayOfWeekNames(Calendar::WIDTH_ABBREVIATED);
$shortDowNames = $calendar->getDayOfWeekNames(Calendar::WIDTH_SHORT);

// [
//   Calendar::DOW_SUNDAY    => 'S',
//   Calendar::DOW_MONDAY    => 'M',
//   Calendar::DOW_TUESDAY   => 'T',
//   Calendar::DOW_WEDNESDAY => 'W',
//   Calendar::DOW_THURSDAY  => 'T',
//   Calendar::DOW_FRIDAY    => 'F',
//   Calendar::DOW_SATURDAY  => 'S',
// ];
$narrowDowNames = $calendar->getDayOfWeekNames(Calendar::WIDTH_NARROW);

Location 

Location is a country associated with locale settings. Locations affect formatting of addresses in the mode when addresses are not formatted using their Countries.

An example of getting country location from locale settings is below:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
// US or some other code of the country
$country = $locale->getCountry();

Additional locale data is available in the Locale Settings. Using this data based on the country, you can access the following information:

  • currency code

  • phone prefix

  • default locale

This data is loaded from bundle’s ./Resources/config/oro/locale_data.yml file. Other bundles can provide their files to extend this data. An example of the locale_data.yml file:

AD:
    currency_code: EUR
    phone_prefix: '376'
    default_locale: ca
AE:
    currency_code: AED
    phone_prefix: '971'
    default_locale: ar_AE

Time Zone 

All dates in application are stored in UTC time zone. When dates are displayed on the UI they are formatted via date/time formatter. This formatter uses time zone setting from Locale Settings to display date times with respect of time zone.

See the List of available timezones in PHP.

An example of getting the time zone from the Locale settings is below:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
// America/Los_Angeles or some other time zone
$timeZone = $locale->getTimeZone();

Currencies 

Locale Settings stores default currency of application. The number formatter uses it for formatting when currency is not specified.

An example of getting the currency from the Locale Settings:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
// USD or some other currency code
$currency = $localeSettings->getCurrency();

An example of getting the currency symbol by the currency code:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
// $
$symbol = $localeSettings->getCurrencySymbolByCurrency('USD');

Names Formats 

This data is used by name formatter. Locale settings can gets the full list of name formats that are available:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
$nameFormats = $localeSettings->getNameFormats();

Name formats are loaded from bundle’s file ./Resources/config/oro/name_format.yml. Other bundles could provide their files to extend name formats configuration.

Example of name_format.yml file:

en: "%prefix% %first_name% %middle_name% %last_name% %suffix%"
en_US: "%prefix% %first_name% %middle_name% %last_name% %suffix%"
ru: "%last_name% %first_name% %middle_name%"
ru_RU: "%last_name% %first_name% %middle_name%"

See name formats in the Name Formatting topic.

Addresses Formats 

This data is used by address formatter. Locale settings can gets the full list of addresses formats that are available:

$localeSettings = $this->get('oro_locale.settings');
$addressesFormats = $localeSettings->getAddressFormats();

Addresses formats are loaded from bundle’s file ./Resources/config/oro/address_format.yml. Other bundles could provide their files to extend address formats configuration.

Example of address_format.yml file:

AD:
    format: '%name%\n%organization%\n%street%\n%postal_code% %REGION%\n%COUNTRY%'
    require: [street, region]
    region_name_type: parish
AE:
    format: '%name%\n%organization%\n%street%\n%city%\n%country%'
    require: [street, city]
AG:
    require: [street]
AM:
    format: '%name%\n%organization%\n%street%\n%postal_code%\n%city%\n%region%\n%country%'
    latin_format: '%name%\n%organization%\n%street%\n%postal_code%\n%city%\n%region%\n%country%'

See address formats in the Address Formatting topic.

Localization Dumping 

Localization information is stored in *.yml files in appropriate bundles, but during installation these data is dumped to container parameters (on backend) and to file oro.locale_data.js (on frontend).

If a user wants to regenerate these dumped information, they need to execute two commands - cache:clear to clear the cache and oro:localization:dump to dumps locale settings for use in JavaScript:

$ php bin/console cache:clear
Clearing the cache for the dev environment with debug true
$ php bin/console oro:localization:dump
17:28:34 [file+] oro.locale_data.js

First command will update all application cache including container parameters, second command will build *.js file that contain all localization information used on frontend.