Single French language website so no need to switch languages on the fly.

In config.php:

i18n::set_locale('fr');
DateField::set_default_config('setLocale','fr');

Site is loading up fr.yml files fine.
The CMS database is being written to in French.

template.ss

<p class="date">
<span class="month">$FromDate.ShortMonth</span>
<span class="day">$FromDate.DayOfMonth</span>
<span class="year">$FromDate.Year</span>
</p>

class.php

	static $db = array (
		'FromDate' => 'Date',
	);

	public function getCMSFields() {
...
		$dateField = new DateField('FromDate');
		$dateField->setConfig('showcalendar', true);
		$dateField->setLocale('fr');
		$dateField->setConfig('jslocale', 'fr');
		$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main', $dateField);
...
}

Front end output:
AUG
28
2015

The back end CMS calendar is displaying in French but the front end doesn't seem to want to play ball.

How do I get Silverstripe to output AUG as AOÛT on the template.ss?

Is it something to do with the server locale? Anything to set in Apache?

Any help appreciated. All my searches have come up with nothing. I'm posting to the forum as a last resort.

This is most unfortuantely because of: http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php#refsect1-datetime.format-notes
You can however use: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php With the extracted timestamp from the SS_Datetime.

Thanks to swaiba for identifying a solution

Thanks for the quick reply.

I've been messing with

$FromDate.FormatI18N('%A %e %B %Y')

I'll see if I can make strftime() work.

I'm guessing I need to setup a custom function in my class to use the PHP functions and return them back to my template as a string. I think that might work.

I got it working.

In config.php I set:

DateField::set_default_config('setLocale','fr_FR');
setlocale(LC_ALL, "fr_FR");
setlocale(LC_TIME, "fr_FR");

and on the template

$FromDate.FormatI18N('%A %e %B %Y')

I think I'm sorted now.

Cool, that seems like a nice and neat solution :)
Thanks for sharing.