Date format

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  • amandadiaspais

  • November 9, 2016 at 12:07 am

  Hello!
  I’m having trouble with date formatting.
  I enter the code indicated in the Documentation of the ACF, but does not appear the date selected internally only the current date, today.

  I have already tried with the following two codes and the same for both:

  <?php $dateformatstring = "d/m/Y";
  $unixtimestamp = strtotime(get_field('desde'));
  echo date_i18n($dateformatstring, $unixtimestamp);?>

  <?php $date = get_field('desde', false, false); 
  $date = new DateTime($date);?>
  <p>Event start date: <?php echo $date->format('j M Y'); ?></p>

  Result of both:
  

  What am I doing wrong?
  How do I get the date chosen on beckend?

  Thank you!

  Regards,
  Amanda
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  • Stormwind

  • November 10, 2016 at 3:23 pm

  Hmm, have you altered the default date format for this field? The default “yymmdd” should be working fine in your code sample.

  Try echoing the raw value that get_field() returns, without parsing it with strtotime(), to see what’s up with it.
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  • amandadiaspais

  • November 10, 2016 at 10:19 pm

  Hello, @stormwind!

  Thank you for your return.
  I already got it.
  The problem was in get_field, I changed to get_sub_field and that’s it and ready the date selected appears as it would be.
  Silly thing. rsrsrs

  Thank you so much