Date format output

• frankeee

• August 23, 2017 at 10:19 pm

Hi,
I have a ACF Field with datepicker and like to display the date in this format:
<b>10</b><br>Feb

Wordpress get_date can do this format with a code like this:
$output .= get_the_date('<\b/>d<\/b/><\b\r/>M');

Is there something similar with ACF?

• John Huebner

• August 24, 2017 at 6:07 am

It depends on what version of ACF you’re using. There is a custom format for the display formatting. In ACF4 it says you can use any valid jquery date format. For ACF5 it uses the builtin WP function date_i18n() https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/date_i18n/ and you can use any valid date formatting string.

If this does not work for you then you’ll need to get the unformatted value of the field get_field('field_name', false, false); and format it yourself using PHP.

• frankeee

• August 25, 2017 at 4:34 pm

Hi John,
thanks for your answer! With your hints I figured it out. This is my solution:

$date = get_post_meta( $entry->ID, "my-acf-field", true );
$date = new DateTime($date);
$finalVal =  $date->format('<\b/>j<\/b/><\b\r/>M'); 
$output .= $finalVal;