custom field that displays date and time using php

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Last updated by Shane 7 years, 1 month ago.

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March 21, 2017 at 2:52 pm #503768

COOP2016

I am trying to use PHP to display the current date and time.

I then want to use the same approach to get the last modified date of a post/page.

I've inserted this function into my child theme and was expecting it to then give me a shortcode that I could use in types.

add_shortcode('date_time');
function date_time() {

<?php the_time('l, j F Y g:ia') ?>

$date_time = 'Date and Time Output';
return $date_time;
}

Instead, I got an error. Not working.

Please help. What am I doing wrong?

March 21, 2017 at 4:03 pm #503819

Shane

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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)

Hi COOP,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

There a few issues with the shortcode declaration.

I would recommend using this tool to generate your shortcodes.
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Thanks,
Shane

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