Update custom postfield programatically

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Last updated by Luo Yang 7 years, 9 months ago.

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February 12, 2017 at 10:06 am #488308

anchouskochesh@mail.ru

I am trying to update a custom post field through

update_post_meta($postID, 'field-slug', "value");

This doesn't work at all.
Fields I am trying to update are "Select" (I suppose the value should be "1", "2" etc.) and date(actually I don't know which format it needs, currently sending DD.MM.YY format).
What am I doing wrong?

February 12, 2017 at 6:08 pm #488386

anchouskochesh@mail.ru

Now the select field is updating, but I still have problems with teh Date field. Everytime I update it, it sets to January 1st, 1970, whatever the date format I send.
Here's the code I tried to use:
1.

update_post_meta($postID, 'wpcf-shipping_date', date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));

update_post_meta($postID, 'wpcf-shipping_date', "01.01.2018");

update_post_meta($postID, 'wpcf-shipping_date', "2018-01-01");

etc.

February 13, 2017 at 4:45 am #488450

Luo Yang

I assume we are talking about a custom date field created with Types plugin, the Types custom date field stores value as time-stamp, you can get the value with PHP function strtotime(). for example:

update_post_meta($postID, 'wpcf-shipping_date', strtotime("2018-01-01"));

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