ACF change date field output

Anonymous

#193028

Hi,

I want to filter some posts using the ACF date field. The output on the frontend looks like 20181224 (Ymd) and I would like to change it to 24 december 2018 (j F Y).

Is this possible? If so, how do I do this?

Thanks

Trevor

#193032

In the Field Group Settings for the date field, what did you set on the formats?

Where in the front end is this happening? In the post output?

Anonymous

#193038

Hi Trevor,

I have set the display format to : d/m/Y and the output to custom j F Y. I have already tried to change these settings but it’s still not working.

It is happening in the filter. I use a dropdown and the options are in Ymd 20181224 and 20181225.

Any idea?

Thanks
Britt

Trevor

#193042

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Anonymous

#193151

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Trevor

#193156

Ah, I see now. You are not using the date/datepicker option, instead the choice option. You will need to make a bit of Custom coding to change the shown date using our Filter Input Object filter and process the ACF date into a Date format that you want.

This should be an option I think, for the future. Is it OK for me to raise this as a feature request?

Anonymous

#193161

Hi Trevor,

We have it working now.

It would be a nice feature for in the future. So you can request it.

Thanks

Anonymous

#193165

Hi Trevor,

This is the code we’ve used btw. Maybe it’s useful 🙂

function filter_function_name($input_object, $sfid)
    {
        if($input_object['name']=='_sfm_kalender_datum')
        {
            foreach($input_object['options'] as $option) {
                if($option->value != "") {
                    $date = strtotime( $option->label );
                    $option->label = date('d m Y', $date);
                }
            }
        }
        
        return $input_object;
    }
    add_filter('sf_input_object_pre', 'filter_function_name', 10, 2);

Trevor

#193167

Thanks for sharing. I will tag this thread right now.

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