Update post_meta with ACF date value

• viorelepuran

• January 1, 2017 at 1:22 am

Hy,

I am using ACF date picker to create a start date for my cpt events, called ‘eveniment’.
The date field is called ‘data_incepe’

I am trying t achieve the folowing:

When i save or update the CPT with ACF on it, i would like to create another post_meta called ‘calendar_data’ that will get the same value as ‘data_incepe’.

I have tried a dozen of solutions, buti think this is over my head.
Can anyone please help me fix this?

Thank you!

• John Huebner

• January 2, 2017 at 4:21 am

You need to create an acf/save_post filter https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acf-save_post/ something like this.

add_filter('acf/save_post', 'my_copy_date_filter', 20);
    // priority is 20 so that it runs after acf has saved the value
function my_copy_date_filter($post_id) {
  $post_type = get_post_type($post_id);
  if ($post_type != 'eveniment') {
    // not our post type, bail early
    return;
  }
  $date = get_field('data_incepe', $post_id);
  update_post_meta($post_id, 'calendar_data', $date);
}

• viorelepuran

• January 2, 2017 at 6:35 am

Thank you. I allready solves it,but your code looks cleaner than mine.

I wqs trying to build a plugin that displays a calendar with cpt and acf custom date.

I got everithing working, so if anyone needs it,ask it here.

I will also upload it to wp repository,since i saw a lot of people wqs looking for something like that.