• nishantsapra

• in reply to: Date output
• April 24, 2019 at 4:59 pm

Hi,

I am new to WordPress and PHP and got stuck while using ACF.

I want to use a custom date field for my event section.

And on the front-end I only want to show the 3 letter of the month and nothing else but it won’t work. Please find below what I am writing in PHP.

<?php
$eventDate = new DateTime(get_field(‘event_date’));
echo $eventDate->format(‘M’)
?>

the error I am getting is…

Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (26/09/2019) at position 0 (2): Unexpected character in /app/public/wp-content/themes/fictional-university-theme/front-page.php:30