Profile: deepS

Problem:

The issue here is that the user wanted to display the difference between two dates, One being Today and the other being a date field from the post.

Solution:

Naturally you're not able to do this with our toolset plugins however with some custom code you can achieve this.

Add the following to your custom functions in Toolset -> Settings -> Custom Code

function calculate_date_diff( $atts ) {
    
    // Attributes
    $atts = shortcode_atts(
        array(
            'post_id' => '',
        ),
        $atts
    );
    
    $field = get_post_meta( $atts['post_id'], 'wpcf-last-date-of-application', true );
      
     $userTimezone = new DateTimeZone('Europe/Rome');
     $date = new DateTime('now',$userTimezone);
     $today_date =  strtotime($date->format('Y/m/d H:i'));
     $text = ' day left';
     if(((($field - $today_date)/60/60/24)+1)>1){
$text = 'days left';
}
     return ((($field - $today_date)/60/60/24)+1).' '.$text;  
}
add_shortcode( 'calculate_date_diff', 'calculate_date_diff' );

To use this shortcode just replace the "wpcf-last-date-of-application" with the slug of your custom date field keeping the wpcf- prefix.

Also you will need to set your timezone with the line
$userTimezone = new DateTimeZone('Europe/Rome');

A list of timezones can be seen in the link below.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

This will ensure that the correct information for Today() is set.

Finally the shortcode usage is [calculate_date_diff post_id='[wpv-post-id]'] where you will provide the ID of the post to get the date field.