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1. gian-ava
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi, I got some "custom posts" set for events and I am ordering the events by the input date in a "custom field" in Year/Month/Day format.

   I'd like to convert the output of that format to "06 February 2011", for example, in the frontend.

   I am triyng this but it doesn't work

   
<?php
$todaysDate = date('Y/m/d');// Get today's date in the right format
$agendaloop = new WP_Query('post_type=agenda&posts_per_page=10&meta_key=_date&meta_compare=>&meta_value=' . $todaysDate . '&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC');

   $display_date = date('d F, Y', strtotime(get_post_meta($post->ID, "_date", true)));
?>


   Than in the "loop" I got this for the output:
   
<?php echo $display_date; ?>


   I get 01 January 1970 for all the posts. I know that this is the start date for "strtotime", but what's wrong with the code?

2. MAS
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   try this <?php the_time((get_post_meta($post->ID, "_date", true)) ?>

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3. gian-ava
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Where should the code go?

   In the "loop", or in the "query"?

   I am able to pull the custom field, I just need to convert the format.
   Thanks.

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   the conversion idea seems to work;
   however, the result of
   get_post_meta($post->ID, "_date", true)
   seems to be empty.

   you mention:

   Then in the "loop" I got this for the output:

   <?php echo $display_date; ?>

   does this mean that this code:
   $display_date = date('d F, Y', strtotime(get_post_meta($post->ID, "_date", true)));
   is outside the loop?

   have you tried to move this code to inside the loop?

   another possibility is to try to use get_the_ID() instead of $post->ID in the get_post_meta() code

5. gian-ava
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   alchymyth, that did it.
   Thanks a lot, I appreciate.

   If you have a look at my code in the first post, you'll notice the $display_date was in the query, not inside the loop. i moved it and it worked fine.
   Got what I needed.
   Cheers to you.
   ;-)

6. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   you are welcome ;-)

   If you have a look at my code in the first post, you'll notice the $display_date was in the query

   that is exactly what i did ;-)

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