Help: How to create field Expired – Current

• wilfredo123

• September 28, 2017 at 10:38 pm

Hello I hope you help me please, I want to know if I use Advanced Custom Fields to display current field – Expired.

I am creating a job site, The example is as follows:

The employment expires say December 25, 2017, Until that date there should be a field where it says FORWARD. After the date the field must change to EXPIRED.

The expiration date I have configured but I lack the field EXISTING and EXPIRED in the Same field.

.

• Keith Lock

• September 29, 2017 at 1:16 am

Hello,

As long as you have the field in question setup with ACF, you are set on that end of things.

It’s then just a matter of displaying the correct data on the front-end to your Users, based on the date in that field (compared to today’s date).

There are several ways to accomplish it… here are 2 ideas that came to me:

1) Using PHP (probably the easiest)

Here are the basic steps:

a) Create an HTML/CSS template for what you want to accomplish. Something like below (based on your screenshot):

<ul>
<li><strong>Employment Status:</strong> <span style="color:green;">Current</a></li>
<li><strong>This job will expire:</strong> December 25, 2017</li>
</ul>

b) Now, within your code, you will want to re-create the above dynamically. You can do something like (perhaps in a loop if you have multiple records to display):

<?php
$expiry_date = get_field('expiry_date');
$is_expired = FALSE;
$status_text = 'Current';
$status_text_2 = 'This job will expire on:';
$status_color = 'green';
if ( strtotime(date('Y-m-d')) > date('Y-m-d', strtotime($expiry_date)) ) {
  $is_expired = TRUE;
  $status_text = 'Expired';
  $status_text_2 = 'This job expired on:';
  $status_color = 'red';
}
echo '<ul>';
echo '<li><strong>Employment Status:</strong> <span style="color:' . $status_color . ';">' . $status_text . '</a></li>';
echo '<li><strong>' . $status_text_2 . '</strong> ' . date("F j, Y", strtotime($expiry_date)) . '</li>';
echo '</ul>';
?>

Resources:

• PHP date function
• PHP strtotime function
• ACF get_field function

2) Using vanilla JavaScript (or JQuery).

Here are the basic steps:

a) Print the expiration date to the page, perhaps within a ‘list item’ tag of an unordered list. The unordered list should have a unique ID, so that you can ‘select’ it later with JavaScript.

b) Within the ‘list item’ tag, you can have a ‘paragraph’ tag to display your desired message, namely: Current or Available

c) In the JavaScript (that you add to the footer of the web page), “select” the ‘unordered list’, then iterate through the ‘list items’, check if the date has passed, and set the HTML of the ‘paragraph’ tag appropriately.

• wilfredo123

• September 29, 2017 at 3:30 am

Thanks for the help I want to know how I can simplify my code to just this

There is some way to add in custom field for each post and on every page of publication it is displayed to configure and when the time comes it automatically changes to expired

.

• wilfredo123

• October 3, 2017 at 5:56 pm

Hello Keith Lock thanks for the great work, Please could I fix my code, I did not get it to work only appears as expired fields although the date is due on October 20, 2017 and appears as expired please you could help me.

3 The code I am using is this, it should appear CURRENT if it just expires on October 20, 1017, after the date it should appear as EXPIRED, although the date is October 20, 2017 as expired.

• Keith Lock

• October 4, 2017 at 12:57 am

hey @wilfredo123

Try this for the date comparison line:

if ( strtotime( date('Y-m-d') ) > strtotime( $fecha ) ) {

That will get you proper results.

I don’t know how to do the translation, sorry about that.

• wilfredo123

• October 4, 2017 at 5:13 am

Thanks for the help solve the problem greetings.

• wilfredo123

• October 7, 2017 at 2:28 pm

Hello please could you clarify I get an error in the registry, This is the code, Only in one day appeared more than 100 errors the something that is not normal.

Please could you help me.

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• Keith Lock

• October 8, 2017 at 3:11 am

Hi there… this is a question that your web host would need to assist with. It has something to do with a setting in php.ini or .htaccess from what I garnered with a quick Google search. I hope you get it sorted!