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Hi,
I need to translate date with WPML. I use date picker and uses MM to display month in letters. It only displays the English text for the month.
How can I manage this?
Hi!
You’ll need to first change it to unix timestamp and then use
date_i18n function.. here’s a snippet:
<?php $timestamp = strtotime(get_field('yourdatefield')); ?>
<time datetime="<?php echo date(DATE_W3C); ?>" pubdate class="updated"><?php echo date_i18n( 'j M', $timestamp); ?></time>
The key parts here is the first row and then the date_i18n function.. Change the first parameter of date_i18n (j M) to whatever timeformat you require 🙂
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. I must admit, this is way above my skill levels. I found the date_i18 in wp-includes/function.php but can’t figure out where to add the snippet or what to modify. Can you please look at my function and tell me what to do?
function date_i18n( $dateformatstring, $unixtimestamp = false, $gmt = false ) {
global $wp_locale;
$i = $unixtimestamp;
if ( false === $i ) {
if ( ! $gmt )
$i = current_time( 'timestamp' );
else
$i = time();
// we should not let date() interfere with our
// specially computed timestamp
$gmt = true;
}
// store original value for language with untypical grammars
// see http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9396
$req_format = $dateformatstring;
$datefunc = $gmt? 'gmdate' : 'date';
if ( ( !empty( $wp_locale->month ) ) && ( !empty( $wp_locale->weekday ) ) ) {
$datemonth = $wp_locale->get_month( $datefunc( 'm', $i ) );
$datemonth_abbrev = $wp_locale->get_month_abbrev( $datemonth );
$dateweekday = $wp_locale->get_weekday( $datefunc( 'w', $i ) );
$dateweekday_abbrev = $wp_locale->get_weekday_abbrev( $dateweekday );
$datemeridiem = $wp_locale->get_meridiem( $datefunc( 'a', $i ) );
$datemeridiem_capital = $wp_locale->get_meridiem( $datefunc( 'A', $i ) );
$dateformatstring = ' '.$dateformatstring;
$dateformatstring = preg_replace( "/([^\\\])D/", "\\1" . backslashit( $dateweekday_abbrev ), $dateformatstring );
$dateformatstring = preg_replace( "/([^\\\])F/", "\\1" . backslashit( $datemonth ), $dateformatstring );
$dateformatstring = preg_replace( "/([^\\\])l/", "\\1" . backslashit( $dateweekday ), $dateformatstring );
$dateformatstring = preg_replace( "/([^\\\])M/", "\\1" . backslashit( $datemonth_abbrev ), $dateformatstring );
$dateformatstring = preg_replace( "/([^\\\])a/", "\\1" . backslashit( $datemeridiem ), $dateformatstring );
$dateformatstring = preg_replace( "/([^\\\])A/", "\\1" . backslashit( $datemeridiem_capital ), $dateformatstring );
$dateformatstring = substr( $dateformatstring, 1, strlen( $dateformatstring ) -1 );
}
$timezone_formats = array( 'P', 'I', 'O', 'T', 'Z', 'e' );
$timezone_formats_re = implode( '|', $timezone_formats );
if ( preg_match( "/$timezone_formats_re/", $dateformatstring ) ) {
$timezone_string = get_option( 'timezone_string' );
if ( $timezone_string ) {
$timezone_object = timezone_open( $timezone_string );
$date_object = date_create( null, $timezone_object );
foreach( $timezone_formats as $timezone_format ) {
if ( false !== strpos( $dateformatstring, $timezone_format ) ) {
$formatted = date_format( $date_object, $timezone_format );
$dateformatstring = ' '.$dateformatstring;
$dateformatstring = preg_replace( "/([^\\\])$timezone_format/", "\\1" . backslashit( $formatted ), $dateformatstring );
$dateformatstring = substr( $dateformatstring, 1, strlen( $dateformatstring ) -1 );
}
}
}
}
$j = @$datefunc( $dateformatstring, $i );
// allow plugins to redo this entirely for languages with untypical grammars
$j = apply_filters('date_i18n', $j, $req_format, $i, $gmt);
return $j;
}
Thanks for your help!
hi! I have a wp with acf in two languages.
How i can make it work the same date picker in spanish and english?
For example:
In spanish: dd/mm/yyyy
In english: yy/mm/dd
Thanks!
G
Hi @tapichus
You can find a good code example to translate the date picker value here:
http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/date-picker-output-translation/
Thanks
E
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