Archive pages with full month names?

Question

I've got News Archive pages that display all entries posted in a certain month/year. For example June 2016 shows all entries created in June of 2016!

I'm fetching the entries based on craft.request.segment (as the URL ends in /june/2016 etc). This works great for all English months, but when my URL says /juni/2016 (the German month name) it can't find any entries??

{% set month = craft.request.segment(2) %}
{% set year = craft.request.segment(3) %}

It's defintely a translation thing. Anyone know how craft.request.segment can work with locales (German and simplified Chinese) too?

Answer 1

Twig’s date filter is aware of the current Craft locale, so you should be able to create a DateTime after composing a string that the filter accepts (see PHP strtotime function docs, which the filter uses behind the scenes).

{% set day = 1 %}
{% set month = 'juni' %}
{% set year = 2016 %}

{% set dateString = [day, month, year]|join(' ') %}
{% set date = dateString|date %}

{{ date }}