PHP Manual: Get the locale for which the formatter was created

Object-oriented style

public string MessageFormatter::getLocale()

Procedural style

string msgfmt_get_locale(MessageFormatter $formatter)

Get the locale for which the formatter was created.

The locale name

Example #1 msgfmt_get_locale example

<?php
$fmt = msgfmt_create('en_US', "Number {0,number}");
echo msgfmt_get_locale($fmt);
?>

Example #2 OO example

<?php
$fmt = new MessageFormatter('en_US', "Number {0,number}");
echo $fmt->getLocale();
?>

The above example will output:

en_US

MessageFormatter::getLocale