Simply display DAY of the Date Time Picker

• Kwitelle

• December 12, 2018 at 7:57 pm

Hi there,

I’ve got a date picker field in my Custom Post Type where on the front end I want to display the DAY and MONTH in separate span tags.

I have tried this code:

<?php $date = strtotime(get_field('start_datum')); ?>
<span><?php echo date('d', $date); ?></span>
<span><?php echo date('M', $date); ?></span>

What I get as return is “01 Jan” instead of the proper day and month.
As a test I also used the <?php the_field('start_datum'); ?> code, then the day and month are correctly displayed, but it shows the full date.

See screenshots for details.

I am not a PHP coder, so basically, is there a very simple way of just displaying only the DAY and MONTH field?

I have also attached some screenshots.

Christel

frontend.png.png

backend.png.png

• John Huebner

• December 13, 2018 at 12:26 am

The problem is that the return formatting you have set is not a valid date for use in strtotime(). Set the return formatting as, the 3rd selection ACF gives you is. Alternately you can get the unformulated value from ACF…. I think that this will return the needed timestamp, but I’m not sure so you’ll need to test it.

$date = get_field('start_datum', false, false); ?>
<span><?php echo date('d', $date); ?></span>
<span><?php echo date('M', $date); ?></span>

• Kwitelle

• December 13, 2018 at 1:08 am

Hello John,

Thank you for your reply. I have done what you asked.
But unfortunately it does not work. It still shows that “01 jan”.

Regards
Christel

• John Huebner

• December 13, 2018 at 1:22 am

$date = strtotime(get_field('start_datum', false, false)); ?>
<span><?php echo date('d', $date); ?></span>
<span><?php echo date('M', $date); ?></span>

• Kwitelle

• December 13, 2018 at 1:30 am

Woohoo! It is working. Thank you for your support.

Regards
Christel