Use PHP functions in JavaScript

JavaScript strcoll

Compares two strings using the current locale

function strcoll (str1, str2) {
    // Compares two strings using the current locale  
    // 
    // version: 910.813
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/strcoll    // +   original by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   improved by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // -    depends on: setlocale
    // *     example 1: strcoll('a', 'b');
    // *     returns 1: -1    this.setlocale('LC_ALL', 0); // ensure setup of localization variables takes place
    var cmp = this.php_js.locales[this.php_js.localeCategories.LC_COLLATE].LC_COLLATE;
    // return str1.localeCompare(str2); // We don't use this as it doesn't allow us to control it via setlocale()
    return cmp(str1, str2);
}

external links: original PHP docs | raw js source

Examples

Running

1	strcoll('a', 'b');

Should return

-1

Dependencies

In order to use this function, you also need:

setlocale

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