Reset custom field at target date

• mikbio

• May 7, 2019 at 10:20 pm

Hello,
i’ve created a custom field containing a number in the user profile.
Now i would like to reset this field to 0 at a certain date. I used this code but it seems that it doesn’t work. Any clues.

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//Snippet azzeramento gettoni
$currentDate = date(‘Y-m-d’);
$currentDate=date(‘Y-m-d’, strtotime($currentDate));
$targetDate = date(‘Y-m-d’, strtotime(“06/05/2019”));
$gettoniRimanenti = (int) get_field(‘gettoni’);

if ($targetDate > $targetDate){
update_field(‘gettoni’, ‘0’, “user_5”);
}else{
echo “Not Today!”;
}

Thanks in advance

• John Huebner

• May 12, 2019 at 1:11 am

When is this code run? Is it run on every page load and does it look at every user?

Is this field also a user field or is it somewhere else? Shouldn’t it also tell acf what user to get the value from?
$gettoniRimanenti = (int) get_field('gettoni, 'user_5');

This would normally be something you’d need to set up in a cron task and you would need to read through every user and check each one.