https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-merge-tag-date-as-yymmdd Gravity Support Forums Topic: Custom Merge Tag: Date as yymmdd en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:05:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-merge-tag-date-as-yymmdd#post-156185 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:24:20 +0000 Chris Hajer 156185@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you for the update. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-merge-tag-date-as-yymmdd#post-155280 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:42:55 +0000 scottidesign 155280@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <pre><code>add_action(&quot;gform_pre_submission_7&quot;, &quot;pre_submission_handler&quot;); function pre_submission_handler($form){ $date1 = $_POST[&quot;input_3&quot;]; $date1 = str_replace(&#39;/&#39;, &#39;-&#39;, $date1); $date1 = date(&quot;Ymd&quot;, strtotime($date1)); $date2 = $_POST[&quot;input_5&quot;]; $date2 = date(&quot;Ymd&quot;, strtotime($date2)); $_POST[&quot;input_3&quot;] = $date1; $_POST[&quot;input_5&quot;] = $date2; }</code></pre> <p>Got it. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-merge-tag-date-as-yymmdd#post-154707 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:16:37 +0000 scottidesign 154707@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I'm using Gravity Forms on a form to capture a hidden date field (current date). Inside the default value I would like to put a merge tag. I want the output to be yymmdd. </p> <p>This is because it's getting passed to a custom post type's, custom field. I used Advanced Custom Fields for this.</p> <p>The default save format of ACF is yymmdd, and I would like to keep it in the database that way as well.</p> <p>Sorry I'm a bit of a novice. I know this can be accomplished relatively easily, probably a hook or something right? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-merge-tag-date-as-yymmdd#post-154605 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:08:27 +0000 Chris Hajer 154605@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>How are you capturing your data, and how would you use this merge tag?</p> <p>There is a gform_merge_tag_filter which may help, but right now I'm not sure what you need to do to know if this is going to work for you or not.<br /> <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_merge_tag_filter" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_merge_tag_filter</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/custom-merge-tag-date-as-yymmdd#post-154466 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:28:12 +0000 scottidesign 154466@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Any suggestions on how to build a custom merge tag for this?</p> <p>"yymmdd" is the most versatile save format. </p>