Outputting formatted custom field

• RobsWebDev

• January 18, 2019 at 3:57 am

I am trying to output a formatted date picker field into my website. I am using the php code that is recommended on your site for the date picker field, but it seems to only output the current date.

ACF code

<?php 

// get raw date
$date = get_field('date', false, false);

// make date object
$date = new DateTime($date);

?>
<p>Event start date: <?php echo $date->format('j M Y'); ?></p>
<?php 

// increase by 1 day
$date->modify('+1 day');
	
?>
<p>Event end date: <?php echo $date->format('j M Y'); ?></p>

Here is the code on my site:

$eventDate = get_field('event-date, false, false');
$eventDate = new DateTime(the_field('event_date')):

<div class=”event-summary”>
`
<span class=”event-summary__month”><?php echo $eventDate->format(‘M’); ?></span>
<span class=”event-summary__day”><?php echo $eventDate->format(‘d’): ?></span>