Date Field not displaying

• greycam

• January 7, 2017 at 8:21 am

Hi All,

Where am I making am mistake displaying “$departure_date->format(‘j M Y’)”

$departure_date = get_field('departure_date', false, false);
$departure_date = new DateTime($departure_date); 
$cruise_line = get_field('cruise_line');
$ship = get_field('ship');

if(get_field('ship'))
{
    echo 'Departs' . $departure_date->format('j M Y') . get_field('cruise_line') . ' | ' . get_field('ship');

}

• James

• January 8, 2017 at 1:38 am

Hi @greycam ,

Looking at your code, the implementation seems just fine.

Kindly check to ensure that the value returned by the get_field is in the correct format.

You may do a var_dump() of the same to check.

Let me know how it goes.

• greycam

• January 9, 2017 at 2:07 pm

So I changed my code around

It now looks like this

$departure_date = get_field('departure_date', false, false);
$departure_date = new DateTime($departure_date); 
<?php echo $depature_date->format('j M Y'); ?>

It now displays the date “Departs 9 Jan 2017” even if the date is set to Jun 1, 2017

When I do $date on it’s own I get: 20170601

• James

• January 16, 2017 at 11:30 am

Hi @greycam

Could you please make sure that you were debugging the correct variables?

Could you please try the following code:

$departure_date = get_field('departure_date', false, false);
$departure_date = new DateTime($departure_date);

echo "\nderpature_date: \n" . $departure_date;
echo "\nformatted derpature_date: \n" . $departure_date->format('j M Y');

Thanks 🙂