Gets the primary language for the input locale

Locale::getPrimaryLanguage

locale_get_primary_language

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

Locale::getPrimaryLanguage -- locale_get_primary_language — Gets the primary language for the input locale

Object oriented style

static string Locale::getPrimaryLanguage ( string $locale )

Procedural style

string locale_get_primary_language ( string $locale )

Gets the primary language for the input locale

The language code associated with the language or NULL in case of error.

Example #1 locale_get_primary_language() example


<?php
echo locale_get_primary_language('zh-Hant');
?>

Example #2 OO example


<?php
echo Locale::getPrimaryLanguage('zh-Hant');
?>

The above example will output:

zh