[Closed] Update the form field after an ajax call

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[kelvinL-2]

Please refer to ticket https://toolset.com/forums/topic/update-the-form-field-after-an-ajax-call/, I have an ajax call to update the field value from backend, I want to change the value to the field and display the correct date format after the ajax call and response.

[Nigel]

If this is a Types date field then the value will be stored as a timestamp (number of seconds since 1 Jan 1970).

Your ajax call triggers some PHP code on the server that returns the value.

You can either have the PHP code return a formatted value (you could use types_render_field to give the formatted value, the same as outputting the field with a types shortcode, or you could take the raw timestamp and produce the formatted string using the PHP date function).

https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/
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Or your ajax request could receive the unformatted timestamp and use JavaScript to format that data as required.

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That may be the better option because if you have a Types date field in a form that includes a hidden input with the timestamp that will be stored and a visible text field that contains the formatted date string.

(You can inspect your form in the front-end with the browser dev tools to see how that works.)