Reply To: Delete ACF repeater field entry from backend after date expiry

• John Huebner

• March 13, 2017 at 3:43 am

I can give a generic example, but it would be highly dependent on how you are displaying date/time values and this code may not work.

add_filter('acf/load_value/name=repeater_field_name', 'delete_old_courses_by_date');
function delete_old_courses_by_date($rows, $post_id, $field) {
  if (!is_array($value) || !count($value)) {
    return $value;
  }
  // get the current timestamp
  $now = time();

  // set up a new array to hold the values we keep
  $new_value = array();
  foreach ($rows as $row) {
    // the php strtotime() function could fail depending on
    // the return format of the date/time fields
    // this requires a valid date/time format as documented here
    // http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.php
    // if this does not work I probably won't be much help figuring
    // our how to covert your return value to something usable
    $start = strtotime($row['start_date']);
    $end = strtotime($row['end_date']);
    if ($start > $now || $end > $now) {
      $new_value[] = $row;
    }
  }
  return $new_value;
}