Date format Email contact form

The CMS Questions
1

Hey,
I’ve built a simple contact form based on the template in the docs (Contact form | Kirby CMS)

It works fine but how can i change the date format in the email.
Would like to have a format like: 24.12.2021

 $data = [
            'date' => get('date'),
        ];

try {
                $kirby->email([
                    'template' => 'email',
                    'from'     => 'test@test.de',
                    'replyTo'  => $data['email'],
                    'to'       => 'test2@test.de',
                    'subject'  => esc($data['name']) . '- Anfrage über Webseite',
                    'data'     => [
                        'name'   => esc($data['name']),
                        'email'   => esc($data['email']),
                        'telefon'   => esc($data['telefon']),
                        'date'   => esc($data['date']),
                        'uhrzeit'   => esc($data['uhrzeit']),
                        'ort'   => esc($data['ort']),
                        'text'   => esc($data['text']),
                    ]
                ]);

Thank you for your help.

2

You can use the PHP date() function with a format string, see PHP: date - Manual

3

:see_no_evil: :hear_no_evil: :speak_no_evil: OMG it’s so simple!
You are the best as always.
Thank you.

1 Like
4

Now I see it’s not working as intended.

In the e-mail-template:

<?= $date = date("d.m.y"); ?>

But then the e-mail always contains the current date.
Where does the date() function have to be inserted?

5

Because that piece of code redefines the data variable.

You can either already format the date when passing the variable to the template

'data'     => [
                        'name'   => esc($data['name']),
                        'email'   => esc($data['email']),
                        'telefon'   => esc($data['telefon']),
                        'date'   => date('Y-m-d', esc($data['date'])),
                        'uhrzeit'   => esc($data['uhrzeit']),
                        'ort'   => esc($data['ort']),
                        'text'   => esc($data['text']),
                    ]

Or echo the formated date

<?= date("d.m.y", $date); ?>
6

When i use this in controller:


'data'     = [
                        'name'   => esc($data['name']),
                        'email'   => esc($data['email']),
                        'telefon'   => esc($data['telefon']),
                        'date'   => date('Y-m-d', esc($data['date'])),
                        'uhrzeit'   => esc($data['uhrzeit']),
                        'ort'   => esc($data['ort']),
                        'text'   => esc($data['text']),
                    ]

The error occurs:

Undefined variable $data

When i use this in email-template:

<?= date("d.m.y", $date); ?>

The error occurs:

date(): Argument #2 ($timestamp) must be of type ?int, string given

7

Should’ve been

<?= date("d.m.y", strtotime($date)); ?>
8

Thanks very much. it is working :+1: