Locale::filterMatches

locale_filter_matches

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Locale::filterMatches -- locale_filter_matches — Checks if a language tag filter matches with locale

Description

Object oriented style

static boolean Locale::filterMatches ( string $langtag , string $locale )

Procedural style

boolean locale_filter_matches ( string $langtag , string $locale )

Checks if a $langtag filter matches with $locale according to RFC 4647's basic filtering algorithm

Parameters

langtag

The language tag to check

locale

The language range to check against

Return Values

TRUE if $locale matches $langtag FALSE otherwise.

Examples

Example #1 locale_filter_matches() example

<?php
echo (locale_filter_matches('de-DEVA','de-DE')) ? "Matches" : "Does not match"; 
echo '; ';
echo (locale_filter_matches('de-DE_1996','de-DE')) ? "Matches" : "Does not match"; 
?>

Example #2 OO example

<?php
echo (Locale::filter_matches('de-DEVA','de-DE')) ? "Matches" : "Does not match"; 
echo '; ';
echo (Locale::filter_matches('de-DE-1996','de-DE')) ? "Matches" : "Does not match"; 
?>

The above example will output:

Does not match; Matches

  

See Also

• locale_lookup()