Retrieve date from date field

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Tagged: Setting up custom fields, Types plugin

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Last updated by PiotrO586 7 years ago.

Assisted by: Beda.

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October 27, 2017 at 1:29 pm #582741

PiotrO586

Hi,

how to retrieve date string from a date custom field?
I was trying something like:
date('Y-m-d', strtotime($_POST[ 'wpcf' ][ 'event-date-and-time' ]))
to set up post title, but I end up with date 1970-01-01

My WordPress is set to y-m-d date pattern.

Regards

October 27, 2017 at 11:11 pm #582902

y.S

To my knowledge, dates are already saved as Unix Timestamp so there is no need for

strtotime()

October 28, 2017 at 10:31 am #582965

Beda

Do you mean from a Toolset Types Date Field?
Those Fields store a timestamp in the Database, which looks like a long number.

You can either display it with our ShortCodes (both raw and in human readable format) or by PHP.
In PHP you can retrieve it with a simple get_post_meta() and then covert this to anything you like with the date() function.
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https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/

November 2, 2017 at 8:42 am #585113

PiotrO586

Thanks!

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