Get the pattern used for the IntlDateFormatter

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# IntlDateFormatter::getPattern

# datefmt_get_pattern

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

IntlDateFormatter::getPattern -- datefmt_get_pattern — Get the pattern used for the IntlDateFormatter

### Description

Object oriented style

public string IntlDateFormatter::getPattern ( void )

Procedural style

string datefmt_get_pattern ( IntlDateFormatter `$fmt` )

Get pattern used by the formatter.

### Parameters

`fmt`

  The formatter resource.

### Return Values

The pattern string being used to format/parse.

### Examples

Example #1 datefmt_get_pattern() example

`<?php
$fmt = datefmt_create(
'en_US',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN,
'MM/dd/yyyy'
);
echo 'pattern of the formatter is : ' . datefmt_get_pattern($fmt);
echo 'First Formatted output with pattern is ' . datefmt_format($fmt, 0);
datefmt_set_pattern($fmt,'yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss z');
echo 'Now pattern of the formatter is : ' . datefmt_get_pattern($fmt);
echo 'Second Formatted output with pattern is ' . datefmt_format($fmt, 0);
?>`

Example #2 OO example

`<?php
$fmt = new IntlDateFormatter(
'en_US',
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
IntlDateFormatter::FULL,
'America/Los_Angeles',
IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN,
'MM/dd/yyyy'
);
echo 'pattern of the formatter is : ' . $fmt->getPattern();
echo 'First Formatted output is ' . $fmt->format(0);
$fmt->setPattern('yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss z');
echo 'Now pattern of the formatter is : ' . $fmt->getPattern();
echo 'Second Formatted output is ' . $fmt->format(0);
?>`

The above example will output:

    pattern of the formatter is : MM/dd/yyyy
    First Formatted output is 12/31/1969
    Now pattern of the formatter is : yyyymmdd hh:mm:ss z
    Second Formatted output is 19690031 04:00:00 PST

### See Also

- datefmt_set_pattern() - Set the pattern used for the IntlDateFormatter
- datefmt_create() - Create a date formatter

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