I have a client for whom I am using ACF to populate custom posts about kids up for adoption. Right now I have them entering the kids’ ages in a field, but they are asking me if it is possible for them to enter a birthdate and have it calculate and show the age. I … have no idea how or if this is possible, but I told them I would ask!
Anyone know of a way to do this?
What is the date format being used for this field? Some PHP should be able to handle this based on the current date. Do you have a QA site you can share with me?
<?php
$date = get_field('date_of_birth');
$birthday = new DateTime($date);
$interval = $birthday->diff(new DateTime);
echo $interval->y.' years old';
?>
This worked for me on my test: http://devwrangler.com/dob-test/
<?php
//date in mm/dd/yyyy format; or it can be in other formats as well
$birthDate = get_field('date_of_birth');
//explode the date to get month, day and year
$birthDate = explode("/", $birthDate);
//get age from date or birthdate
$age = (date("md", date("U", mktime(0, 0, 0, $birthDate[0], $birthDate[1], $birthDate[2]))) > date("md")
? ((date("Y") - $birthDate[2]))
: (date("Y") - $birthDate[2]));
echo "Age:" . $age;
?>
Thanks, I will give these a try! I was going to use a date picker, in answer to the first question.
This one worked for me!
<?php
$date = get_field('date_of_birth');
$birthday = new DateTime($date);
$interval = $birthday->diff(new DateTime);
echo $interval->y.' years old';
?>
This one:
<?php
//date in mm/dd/yyyy format; or it can be in other formats as well
$birthDate = get_field('date_of_birth');
//explode the date to get month, day and year
$birthDate = explode("/", $birthDate);
//get age from date or birthdate
$age = (date("md", date("U", mktime(0, 0, 0, $birthDate[0], $birthDate[1], $birthDate[2]))) > date("md")
? ((date("Y") - $birthDate[2]))
: (date("Y") - $birthDate[2]));
echo "Age:" . $age;
?>
For some reason generated the current year. But no matter, I have it all working now, thanks!
Yay! Good luck and glad it worked.
Also, I checked out your site (Googled “websydaisy”). Nice work.
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Hi,
I have been trying to calculate a member of staff’s years of service and have had some success following this guide 🙂
This is working great, however, I would really like to display the result as “14th Year of Service” or “3rd Year of Service” and can’t figure it out could you offer some guidance please? I have been looking into it and it looks like oridnal suffix is what I am looking for.
My PHP code is:
<p class=”start-date”> <?php if( get_sub_field(‘startdate’) ): ?> <?php $date = get_sub_field(‘startdate’); $yearsofservice = new DateTime($date); $interval = $yearsofservice->diff(new DateTime); echo $interval->y. ‘ Year of Service’; ?></p> <?php endif; ?>
Thank you in advance
Darren
Hi,
I have been trying to calculate a member of staff’s years of service and have had some success following this guide 🙂
This is working great, however, I would really like to display the result as “14th Year of Service” or “3rd Year of Service” and can’t figure it out could you offer some guidance please? I have been looking into it and it looks like oridnal suffix is what I am looking for.
My PHP code is:
<p class=”start-date”> <?php if( get_sub_field(‘startdate’) ): ?> <?php $date = get_sub_field(‘startdate’); $yearsofservice = new DateTime($date); $interval = $yearsofservice->diff(new DateTime); echo $interval->y. ‘ Year of Service’; ?></p> <?php endif; ?>
Thank you in advance
Darren
