Format date subfield?

The CMS Questions
1

I have a nested custom date field is it possible change the way the date is formatted in my template?

    <?php foreach($articles as $article): ?>
   <a href="">
    <div class="left"><?php echo $article['title'] ?></div>
    <div class="middle"><?php echo $article['publisher'] ?></div>
    <div class="right"><?php echo $article['date'] ?></div>
  </a>
<?php endforeach ?>
2

What format do you want the date in?

3

short month and year e.g Oct 2017

4

Something like this should probably work (untested, but borrowed code from one or my sites)

<?php foreach($articles as $article): ?>

 <?php $dateformat = date('M-Y', strtotime($article['date']));?>
  
  <a href="">
  <div class="left"><?= $article['title'] ?></div>
  <div class="middle"><?= $article['publisher'] ?></div>
  <div class="right"><?= $dateformat ?></div>
  </a>
<?php endforeach ?>

Refer to PHP date formatting here

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5

If you use toStructure() instead of yaml() on your structure field, it’s a bit more comfortable, because you can then use the date method with a format parameter.

$article->date('M-Y');
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6

ah! thank you both, toStructure() is new to me :slight_smile:

<? php foreach($page->articles()->toStructure() as $article): ?>
  <a href="">
  <div class="left"><?php echo $article->title() ?></div>
  <div class="middle"><?php echo $article->publisher() ?></div>
  <div class="right"><?php echo $article->date('M Y')?></div>
  </a>
<?php endforeach ?>
7

No worries, should be date('M-Y') though.

and <?= is the same as <?php echo … saves you some typing :slight_smile:

8

M-Y outputs the hyphen

and <?= is the same as <?php echo … saves you some typing

:slight_smile: