Getting Gravity Forms date field into ACF date field?

• elemenopy

• October 13, 2014 at 10:58 am

Hi – I’m using gravity forms to set up a front-end form that creates a draft of a custom post type – I’ve got most everything working as intended with one exception – I’m not able to figure out how to pass a date collected with a Gravity Forms date field into an ACF date field. I can pass a GF date field into an ACF text field, but I need my admin users to be able to edit that date once it’s in place – is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

• alanjuden

• April 14, 2015 at 1:47 pm

@elemenopy: Did you ever figure anything out on this? Looking in my own database it’s most likely the format that the date is saved in. I’m seeing an example that was created in the admin page ACF form that is saved in the format (YYYYMMDD) and when the post is created through gravity forms date field, it’s saved into the wp_postmeta table in the format (MM/DD/YYYY).

• ryann

• April 22, 2016 at 10:10 am

Is there any update on this item? Just encountered it myself.

Edit: Nevermind! Found a solution:

function acf_smart_dates($field) {
  if ($field['value']) {
    $field['value'] = date('Ymd',strtotime($field['value']));
  }
  return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/prepare_field/type=date_picker','acf_smart_dates');

From: http://blog.room34.com/archives/5597

• engineroom

• December 11, 2018 at 3:52 am

Just as an update to this I had to alter the function to make this work, see the below:

function acf_smart_dates($field) {
  if ($field['value']) {
  	$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $field['value']);	
    $field['value'] = date_format($date, 'Ymd');
  }
  return $field;
}
add_filter('acf/prepare_field/type=date_picker','acf_smart_dates');