I have set up a datepicker field and am displaying it via a template using get_field(name) but the date format is wrong. I have “yymmdd” entered for “save format” and “MM d, yy” for “display format”. Unfortunately what is displaying is the “save format”.
How can I get the “display format” to properly appear?
Hi @cerulean
The display_format is only for use in the back-end. It is not what is returned to you via the API.
To format the date object, please follow the code examples on the date picker documentation page.
Thanks
Elliot
Sorry but I’m not having luck with getting the date formatting to work, referring to the datepicker documentation page.
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/date-picker/
Here’s my code:
if(get_field('deadline'))
{
echo '<li><strong>Deadline: </strong>' . get_field('deadline') . '</li>';
}
I was trying this but end up with a blank page:
if(get_field('deadline'))
{
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('deadline'));
echo '<li><strong>Deadline: </strong>' . $date->format('d-m-Y') . '</li>';
}
Thanks for any help!
Unrelated but odd … when I try to use the “link” tool in the WYSIWYG editor it shuts the entire site window after clicking the link window button (tried it a few times). Not sure if anyone else has this problem but thought I’d mention it.
To be clear, I’m referring to the WYSIWYG editor on this forum site. Anyway, thanks for helping with my date formatting problem : )
Thanks for any assistance on displaying the Datepicker date as July 19, 2013 and not 20130719.
Let me know if there’s other documentation I should be looking at besides http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/date-picker/
Thanks!
Hi @cerulean
Perhaps you could elaborate more on ‘Sorry but I’m not having luck’.
Have you done any debugging?
@cerulean –
I’m having the same problem…using the code provided in the Date Picker docs but still coming up with “20131111” as a display format, for example.
Your code above looks fine to me; it’s very similar to what I’ve been trying. Did you have any luck finding a solution?
M
Hey guys,
Have you debugged your code to see what is and isn’t working?
eg:
if(get_field('deadline'))
{
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('deadline'));
echo '<pre>';
print_r($date);
echo '</pre>';
die;
}
Hello, guys,
I thought that my issue involved the PHP version my server had installed. I asked the host to upgrade me to 5.3 at least.
This upgrade worked…spottily. I could then get the format to change, mostly, but then I started having issues with the custom fields themselves; I would use the datepicker to choose a date, update the post, and the date would disappear. I would also get a fatal error: “Call to a member function format() on a non-object” on the posts that did have dates attached to the field. When I was lucky, the formats were changed perfectly (using the PHP code suggested on the DatePicker reference page on this site), but in the end I had to set the field to “text” instead of “datepicker” because I couldn’t guarantee success.
@cerulean or others like him/her – I’d definitely check to see what version of PHP your server is running. If it’s below 5.3 the “DateTime::createFromFormat” code won’t work. Upgrade and it might fix your issue!
@elliot, or others – can you point me to a piece of jQuery that you know works to change the datepicker format? And perhaps let me know what I need installed on my site as well (jQuery, jQuery UI, perhaps)?
Many thanks, Matt
@matthewbivins sorry for the late reply, just got back in town. Here’s the code that worked for me. It can be improved upon but did the job. Best of luck.
<?php
if(get_field('deadline'))
{
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('deadline'));
echo '<li><strong>Deadline: </strong>';
echo $date->format('F j, Y');
echo '</li>';
}
?>
Hey Guys, old topic, but I have the same problem.I always get something like 20131111 and not what is expected…
My PHP Version is 5.6.19
That’s what I get when debugging:
DateTime Object
(
[date] => 2016-05-27 21:47:17.000000
[timezone_type] => 3
[timezone] => UTC
)
I can’t go with cerulean’s solution because then the date output is all english what I get – instead of german, what I would need.
Any ideas??
