Hello !
I need to make an agenda for a website in WordPress. I use ACF for the date and I would like to separate the day, month and year with a span or a div to change the style of the date.
For the moment I have :
<?php the_field('jour_de_levenement'); ?>
The date appears but I can’t select the day to customize it. So I tried something like that but it didn’t seem to work :
<?php $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('dFY', get_field('jour_de_levenement')); ?>
<span class="day"><?php echo $date->format('d'); ?></span>
<span class="month"><?php echo $date->format('F'); ?></span>
<span class="year"><?php echo $date->format('Y'); ?></span>
It gives me a fatal error.
Here an image of what I want to do : http://imgur.com/JpDB2Gv
Thanks a lot !
DateTime::createFromFormat requires the second parameter to be a timestamp and ACF returns an already formatted date that depends on the return/display format you’ve set for the field. You can’t use this function.
// returns unformatted date
$date = get_field('jour_de_levenement', false, false);
// convert it to a time
$time = strtotime($date);
<span class="day"><?php echo date('d', $time); ?></span>
<span class="month"><?php echo date('F', $time); ?></span>
<span class="year"><?php echo date('Y', $time); ?></span>
It works ! Thanks a lot !
I tried adding this to query a custom post type and it gives an odd timestamp 01 January 1970:
<?php
$date = get_field('fromdate', false, false);
// convert it to a time
$time = strtotime($date);
if ( get_query_var('paged') ) $paged = get_query_var('paged');
if ( get_query_var('page') ) $paged = get_query_var('page');
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'events', 'posts_per_page' => 20, 'order' => 'ASC' ) );
if ( $query->have_posts() ) :
while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?>
<div class='events-title'>
<span class="day"><?php echo date('d', $time); ?></span>
<span class="month"><?php echo date('F', $time); ?></span>
<span class="year"><?php echo date('Y', $time); ?></span>
</div>
<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();
else : ?>
<p>There are no events at the moment</p>
<?php endif;?>
The dateformat is set up to return Ymd.
Jon
Not sure why but I deleted the two datepicker fields, recreated them and now have a working date.
