I have a datepicker field as custom field for my authors called “antallningsdatum”.
The code below shows dates as Ymd
<?php
$args = array(
'meta_key' => 'antallningsdatum',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'DESC'
);
$author_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );
$authors = $author_query->get_results();
$user_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
foreach( $authors as $author ):
echo '<li class="anstallningsdatum">'. get_the_author_meta( 'antallningsdatum', $author->ID ).'</li>';
;?>
<?php endforeach;?>
I want to display the date as d-m-Y instead, how to achieve this?
Hi @dillehal
One way to achieve this would be to set d-m-Y as the return format. This option is available on the field options from the field group edit screen. Then use get_field(...) or the_field(...) function to display this on your frontend.
Alternatively, you could use $date = DateTime::createFromFormat(…) then $date->format(‘d-m-Y’); to format the date. Check out this link for more information: http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php
Hmm, not sure how to change my code in order to use those examples.. Could you alter this code?
<?php
$args = array(
'meta_key' => 'antallningsdatum',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'DESC'
);
$author_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );
$authors = $author_query->get_results();
$user_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
foreach( $authors as $author ):
echo '<li class="anstallningsdatum">'. get_the_author_meta( 'antallningsdatum', $author->ID ).'</li>';
;?>
<?php endforeach;?>
