Reply To: Filtering CPT with date picker custom field

• blueturtlefl

• November 26, 2013 at 1:34 am

Hi Elliot,

In the documentation, it says to call the $date as such:

echo $date->format('d-m-Y');

When I use this to call the $date, I get a “Fatal error: Call to a member function format() on a non-object…”

Here’s what I have

<?php
remove_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');
add_action('genesis_loop', 'custom_loop');

function custom_loop() {  
  	
	// Intro Text (from page content)
	echo '<div class="page hentry entry">';
	echo '<h1 class="entry-title">'. get_the_title() .'</h1>';
	echo '<div class="entry-content">' . get_the_content() ;
	
    
	$args = array(
		'post_type' => 'events', // enter your custom post type
		'meta_key' => 'class_date', // name of custom field
	    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
	    'order' => 'ASC',
	);
	

	$loop = new WP_Query( $args );
	if( $loop->have_posts() ):
	
					
	while( $loop->have_posts() ): $loop->the_post(); global $post;
	
    echo '<div id="events">';
			
			echo '<h3>' . get_the_title() . '</h3>';
			
	/* Create PHP DateTime object from Date Picker Value
    this example expects the value to be saved in the format: yymmdd (JS) = Ymd (PHP) */

    $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('yymmdd', get_field('class_date'));
			
			echo '<p>' . $date->format('F n Y') . '</p>';
			echo '<p>'. get_field('time') . '</p>';
			echo '<p>' . get_the_content() . '</p>';
        echo '</div>';
		
		endwhile;
		
	endif;
	
			
}
	
/** Remove Post Info */
remove_action('genesis_before_post_content','genesis_post_info');
remove_action('genesis_after_post_content','genesis_post_meta');
 

genesis(); 
?>