Reply To: Date Picker (and if date specified has passed)

• rdck

• August 14, 2013 at 7:01 am

Okay, thanks for my friend Matt we managed to work this out.

Basically, my PHP skills failed me a little as $date_passed was defined in an if statement, thus it’s not always defined and you are getting PHP notices when it is not defined.

So, he suggested I either define $date_passed to something (null) or use isset or empty to check whether it has been defined.

So adapting my code to below, worked:

$date_passed = null;
if ( $end_date_passed_check->format('Ymd') < date('Ymd') ) {
$date_passed = 'date-passed';
}

I hope this post proves to be useful in applying specific classes to events that have passed using the ACF DatePicker.

Full code as follows:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( ! have_posts() ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<div class="container_12">
 
	<?php 
	
	while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); 
	
	$end_date_passed_check = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('event_end_date'));
		
	$date_passed = null;
		
	if ( $end_date_passed_check->format('Ymd') < date('Ymd') ) {
		$date_passed = 'date-passed';
	}
	?>
	
	<div id="programme-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
		<div class="grid_3">
			<div class="each-programme-content <?php echo $date_passed; ?>">
				<a class="each-programme-content-info" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
					<?php if ( get_field('type_of_event') ) : ?>
						<span class="type-of-event"><?php the_field('type_of_event'); ?></span>
					<?php endif; ?>
					<?php if ( get_field('event_start_date') && get_field('event_end_date') ) : ?>
						<?php $start_date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('event_start_date'));
						$end_date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('event_end_date')); ?>
						<h4 class="date"><?php echo $start_date->format('d'); ?>&mdash;<?php echo $end_date->format('d F'); ?></h4>
					<?php elseif ( get_field('event_start_date') ) : ?>
						<?php $start_date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('event_start_date')); ?>
						<h4 class="date"><?php echo $start_date->format('d F'); ?></h4>
					<?php endif; ?>
					<h4><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
				</a>
			</div>	
		</div>
	</div>
	
	<?php endwhile; ?>

</div>
<div class="clear"></div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>