PHP - Date Formatting

[CruisePlus]

Hi All!

This is my second week of PHP. I'm going through a PHP course at the moment so i'm pretty certain i've made a stupid mistake somewhere!

 

I'm trying to get a date that's entered in my CMS panel to show on the front-end.

 

I've defined the variable departure_date --> got the raw data --> created a new date object --> tried to display the date object in the format j M Y.

 

I believe there is something wrong with how i am defining the date object in my echo statement.

 

I forgot to mention this is a wordpress website i'm working on with ACF custom fields if that helps.

$departure_date = get_field('departure_date', false, false);
$departure_date = new DateTime($departure_date); 
$cruise_line = get_field('cruise_line');
$ship = get_field('ship');

if(get_field('ship'))
{
    echo 'Departs' . $departure_date->format('j M Y') . get_field('cruise_line') . ' | ' . get_field('ship');

}

Edited January 6, 2017 by CruisePlus

[cyberRobot]

What does the code echo now? Have you tried outputting the various variables to see if you are getting expected values?

[CruisePlus]

What does the code echo now? Have you tried outputting the various variables to see if you are getting expected values?

The variable cruise_line and ship are output correctly if $departure_date->format('j M Y') is removed

[cyberRobot]

What does $departure_date->format('j M Y') output?

[Barand]

What is the date format used in the database table? ie What do you get if you echo $departure_date immed after the get_field()?

// MySQL DATE type
$date = '2017-01-06';
$dt = new DateTime($date);
echo $dt->format('j M Y') . '<br>';

// Unix epoch integer type
$date = 1483660800;
$dt = new DateTime("@$date");
echo $dt->format('j M Y') . '<br>';

Edited January 6, 2017 by Barand
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