[Resolved] Show future dates only with multiple instance custom field Date

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[marcellinoB]

I am trying to: Show/include only future dates from a multiple instance custom field "Date' within a View. [types field="workshop-data-start" style="text" format="d/m/Y" separator="<br/>"][/types]. So a for-each and if-evaluate needs to show the Dates that are > (greater than) the current date/time. I believe the evaluate needs to perform a comparison based on timestamp value ( time() ).

I visited this URL: https://toolset.com/forums/topic/date-field-multiple-instances-show-only-today-or-higher/

I expected to see: The above topic mentions some issues with processing code in a certain order, so using this code example doesn't do the job.

Instead, I got: Tried some alternatives, but don't seem to get any results. The View displays properly but the for-each and if-evaluate returns 'empty'. In the attached screenshot is the View displayed. There is a date shown (12/03/2015) in the second row. This date shouldn't be shown based on the current date of 18/03/2015.

[marcellinoB]

The problem is the for-each statement, which doesn't seems to execute together with the if statement.

Below code works partially. When the dates are all in the future, they show. When there is a date in the Date instances that is in the past, the for-each stops working.

[wpv-for-each field="wpcf-workshop-data-start"]
[wpv-if expiration="wpcf-workshop-data-start" evaluate="$expiration > '[today_date]'"]
[types field="workshop-data-start" style="text" format="d/m/Y"][/types]
[/wpv-if]
[/wpv-for-each]

[marcellinoB]

Ok, i see at this URL: https://toolset.com/documentation/views-shortcodes/#wpv-for-each

Note: wpv-if shortcode won’t work inside a wpv-for-each shortcode

So, it isn't supposed to work anyway in the current code.

Is there a work-around or is it just not possible?

Would be great if this could be added to the existing code. Let's you create a lot of additional/conditional Views with multiple instance values.

[Luo Yang]

Yes, you are right, as the document mentioned wpv-if shortcode won’t work inside a wpv-for-each shortcode
https://toolset.com/documentation/views-shortcodes/#wpv-for-each

In your case, I suggest you try create a custom shortcode for it, for example:
1) add below codes in your theme functions.php:

add_shortcode('my-repeating-dates', 'my_repeating_dates_func');
function my_repeating_dates_func($atts, $content){

    extract(  shortcode_atts( array(
		'field' => '',
		'strtotime' => 'Today',
		'style' => 'text',
		'format' => 'd/m/Y',
		'separator' => ', ',
	), $atts ));
	$res_arr = array();
	$arr = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $field, false);
	$value = strtotime($strtotime);
	foreach($arr as $k=> $v){
		if($v > $value){
			$res_arr[] = date_i18n( $format, $v);
		}
	}
	$res = implode($separator, $res_arr);
	return $res;
} 

2) use below above shortcodes in your content, like this:
[my-repeating-dates field="wpcf-workshop-data-start" strtotime="Today" style="text" format="d/m/Y" separator=", "]

[marcellinoB]

Luoy,

Works like a charm. Would be cool if there could be a bunch of ready-made functions like this available which you can use out-of-the-box.

This code snippet is a great starting point for solving more things like this.

Thank you very much for support!

Marcellino