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Reputation: 563

Find out system locale from PHP script on linux

I'm trying to find out system locale from PHP script on Debian. The way I do:

    <?php
    $out = shell_exec('locale');
    print_r($out);
    ?>

Result:

    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE=
    LC_CTYPE="C"
    LC_NUMERIC="C"
    ...

But when I write 'locale' command in my system console I get 'right' result:

    LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=
    LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
    ...

What is the right way to get system locale from PHP script?

Overall purpose: In the request I accept a file path, which can contain cyrillic symbols. Then I need to access files in this directory. So I want to make my php script work with systems which use different locales (e.g. ru_Utf8, Koi8-r).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 475

Answers (1)

Andrew Coder
Andrew Coder

Reputation: 1058

One method to get the true system locale from PHP:

1) create a .sh script containing the locale command (and of course the #!/bin/bash header)

2) Add to /etc/sudoers www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /path/to/locale.sh with the sh script you just created

3) Update your PHP shell_exec to $out = shell_exec('sudo /bin/bash /path/to/locale.sh')

This would allow locale to execute as root, without requiring a password.

Upvotes: 1

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