Clearing out values on publish/update

[soderlind]

Clearing out values on publish/update

[richgcook]

Any help on this?

[soderlind]

I need a bit more information please.

• I guess you're testing 2.0.11 and not 2.0.1.1
• Have you checked for javascript error?
• I assume you're using WP 3.6.x?
• What kind of server are you using (LAMP, MAMP ..) ?

[richgcook]

I guess you're testing 2.0.11 and not 2.0.1.1 — Yep, sorry.
Have you checked for javascript error? — No JS errors on the add post pages
I assume you're using WP 3.6.x? — Using 3.6
What kind of server are you using (LAMP, MAMP ..) ? — this is on the live, and using MediaTemple with Apache

[richgcook]

[richgcook]

Two screenshots attached above. Top image is how it looks before I select a date, then then bottom image is how it looks once two dates are selected. When I clicked 'Update' or 'Save', it simply returns the fields back to the top image and no information is saved.

[soderlind]

Doest it work if you change the date and time format to?: dd.mm.yy hh:mm

[richgcook]

It definitely, does. Nice. So it's to do with the date format. So either, it need to be fixed backend, or I could somehow turn dd.mm.yy into D dd MM on the front.

[soderlind]

The "problem" is strtotime, it's picky .. meaning if it doesn't understand the date format it'll return nothing. I would love to use DateTime::createFromFormat, but it's PHP >= 5.3.0 (WordPress is PHP >= 5.2.4)

I suggest that you use dd.mm.yy where you set the date, and use D dd MM on the front. In the latest version you can set "Get field as timestamp" and if you're running PHP >= 5.3, use something like:

$datetime = DateTime::createFromFormat('U', get_field($field_name));
echo $datetime->format('D dd MM');

You can read more about get_field at http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/functions/get_field/

[richgcook]

Many thanks – this makes perfect sense.