[Resolved] populate a cred form date field with today's date

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[Mario]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I am trying to populate a cred form date field using the code below when creating a cpt record not updating one. But it does not work.

[cred_field field='csh-create-date2' force_type='field' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' value='[date1]']
I have also tried to create it using a function same problem.

[Nigel]

Hi Mario

What value does the custom shortcode date1 provide?

Date fields are stored as UNIX timestamps.

So if you use 1570492800 for the default value, that will show up in the form as 8 Oct 2019, i.e. today's date.

So your custom shortcode to output "today's date" should return the timestamp for today.

Something like this:

add_shortcode( 'today', function(){

    $today = date( 'Y-m-d' );
    $today_timestamp = strtotime( $today );
    
    return $today_timestamp;
});

[Mario]

Hi Nigel

I have used the code as suggested:
[cred_field field='csh-create-date' force_type='field' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' value='[today_timestamp]']
but not working.

[Nigel]

If you used my exact code to register the shortcode, then the shortcode is "today", so you would need

[cred_field field='csh-create-date' force_type='field' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' value='[today]']

I had already tested it on my own site, so it should work.

[Mario]

Hi Nigel

Thank you that worked.
I am also having a similar problem with trying to populate the email address :

[cred_field field="csh-email-address" value="[types field='s-email'][/types]"]

The email is the logged in author - using the record found in the view cpt seeker

[Nigel]

I don't follow where the email address is coming from, but if you want the email address of the currently logged-in user, you can provide that with the wpv-user shortcode:

[cred_field field="csh-email-address" value="[wpv-user field='user_email']"]