PHP Manual: Get the calendar type

Description

Object oriented style

public string IntlCalendar::getType ( void )

Procedural style

string intlcal_get_type ( IntlCalendar $cal )

A string describing the type of this calendar. This is one of the valid values for the calendar keyword value 'calendar'.

Parameters

cal: The IntlCalendar resource.

Return Values

A string representing the calendar type, such as 'gregorian', 'islamic', etc.

Examples

Example #1 IntlCalendar::getType


<?php
ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/Lisbon');
ini_set('intl.default_locale', 'en_US');

$cal = IntlCalendar::createInstance(NULL, '@calendar=ethiopic-amete-alem');
var_dump($cal->getType());

$cal = new IntlGregorianCalendar();
var_dump($cal->getType());

The above example will output:

string(19) "ethiopic-amete-alem"
string(9) "gregorian"