https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress Gravity Support Forums Topic: Taking data from date field and using it elsewhere in Wordpress en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:29:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17482 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:54:08 +0000 Alex Cancado 17482@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It would be possible using the gform_post_submission hook, but you will need some PHP experience to pull it off. We can recommend a developer if this is something you are willing to pay for. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17479 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:42:08 +0000 jbdurand 17479@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Alex, I have Discovered a critical problem : The date of a post (timestamp)<br /> cannot be set before 1970 in wordpress.<br /> By consequence using the timestamp date field to enter historical events in the simile timeline is not The right solution there.<br /> In the simile Timeline wordpress plugin, a widget in the posting page enable to enter dates (start, end...).<br /> But these fields are not custom type fields, they are recording data into custom database tables.<br /> Do you think it could be possible to write data directly into database fields from gravity?</p> <p>info on the wp simile timeline plugin here:<br /> Simile timeline plugin : <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-simile-timeline/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-simile-timeline/</a><br /> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wp-simile-timeline" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/wp-simile-timeline</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17391 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:55:04 +0000 Alex Cancado 17391@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>functions.php is correct.<br /> I will need to take a deeper look at this one for you. I will need an admin WP and FTP login to be able to see what is going on. Send them to <a href="mailto:alex@rocketgenius.com">alex@rocketgenius.com</a>. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17299 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:27:51 +0000 jbdurand 17299@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>still not working...<br /> I tried to import the form in another blog with another theme (twentyten) and it still didn't work. the date is 1970.</p> <p>I modified the "functions.php" of the theme file and you wrote "function.php".<br /> I am wrong here?<br /> I pasted your code at the end of this functions.php text.</p> <p>it's very frustrating...</p> <p>I can give you by mail the admin code eventually. something is wrong somewhere... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17294 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:58:10 +0000 Alex Cancado 17294@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The first code snippet I sent is the right one.<br /> It worked for me here. My post ended up with the right date.<br /> I am not sure why it wouldn't work for you. What you can try to do is switch the date format and see if that makes a difference.</p> <p>replace<br /> <pre><code>date(&quot;Y-m-d&quot;, strtotime($date));</code></pre> <p>with ....</p> <p><code>date(&quot;Y-d-m&quot;, strtotime($date));</code></p> <p>If that still doesn't work, I am out of options.</p> <p>Following is the code that worked for me<br /> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_post_data&quot;, &quot;change_post_date&quot;, 10, 3); function change_post_date($post_data, $form, $entry){ //Only change post date on form id 124. //NOTE: Replace 124 with your actual form id if($form[&quot;id&quot;] != 126) return $post_data; //NOTE: Replace 3 with your date field id. You can find your field id by inspecting the field&#39;s input tag $date = $entry[28]; $post_data[&quot;post_date&quot;] = date(&quot;Y-m-d&quot;, strtotime($date)); return $post_data; }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17286 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:04:55 +0000 jbdurand 17286@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>hello Alex<br /> I sent you the exported form by mail </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17280 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:06:16 +0000 Alex Cancado 17280@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Lets get this first one working first. Can you send me an export of your form to <a href="mailto:alex@rocketgenius.com">alex@rocketgenius.com</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17269 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:22:28 +0000 jbdurand 17269@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Alex I tried the modification but didn't work. there still might be a date format problem.</p> <p>currently in my form the form number is 3, the date number is 28, the input date type is "date field" the date format is "dd/mm/yyyy"</p> <p>so I inserted in the following text in function.php : </p> <p>add_filter("gform_post_data", "change_post_date", 10, 3);<br /> function change_post_date($post_data, $form, $entry){</p> <p> //Only change post date on form id 124.<br /> //NOTE: Replace 124 with your actual form id<br /> if($form["id"] != 3)<br /> return $post_data;</p> <p> //NOTE: Replace 3 with your date field id. You can find your field id by inspecting the field's input tag<br /> $post_data["post_date"] = $entry["28.3"] . "-" . $entry["28.2"] . "-" . $entry["28.1"];<br /> return $post_data;<br /> }</p> <p>the result is that the posts are sent a today date. not working.</p> <p>here is the code of the form for the date input:</p> <p>&lt;label class='gfield_label' for='input_3_28'&gt;Date&lt;/label&gt;&lt;div class='clear-multi'&gt;&lt;div class='gfield_date_day ginput_container' id='input_3_28'&gt;&lt;input type='text' maxlength='2' name='input_28[]' id='input_3_28.2' value='' tabindex='2' /&gt;&lt;label for='input_3_28.2'&gt;DD&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='gfield_date_month ginput_container' id='input_3_28'&gt;&lt;input type='text' maxlength='2' name='input_28[]' id='input_3_28.1' value='' tabindex='3' /&gt;&lt;label for='input_3_28.1'&gt;MM&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='gfield_date_year ginput_container' id='input_3_28'&gt;&lt;input type='text' maxlength='4' name='input_28[]' id='input_3_28.3' value='' tabindex='4' /&gt;&lt;label for='input_3_28.3'&gt;YYYY&lt;/label&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</p> <p>the other thing is that I will have several gravity forms which should send post with a user modified date.<br /> so What would be the code for several forms and Date Input Type, date picker, calendar, dd/mm/yyyy? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17258 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:17:56 +0000 Alex Cancado 17258@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes, there is a problem with the date formatting. I was assuming you were using the single input date field with the calendar.</p> <p>Replace the following lines.</p> <pre><code>$date = $entry[27]; $post_data[&quot;post_date&quot;] = date(&quot;Y-m-d&quot;, strtotime($date));</code></pre> <p>with this...<br /> <pre><code>$post_data[&quot;post_date&quot;] = $entry[&quot;26.3&quot;] . &quot;-&quot; . $entry[&quot;26.1&quot;] . &quot;-&quot; . $entry[&quot;26.2&quot;];</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/taking-data-from-date-field-and-using-it-elsewhere-in-wordpress#post-17253 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:55:43 +0000 jbdurand 17253@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I enclose the code that I inserted. maybe I did incorrect modifications:</p> <p>add_filter("gform_post_data", "change_post_date", 10, 3);<br /> function change_post_date($post_data, $form, $entry){</p> <p> //Only change post date on form id 124.<br /> //NOTE: Replace 124 with your actual form id<br /> if($form["id"] != 3)<br /> return $post_data;</p> <p> //NOTE: Replace 3 with your date field id. You can find your field id by inspecting the field's input tag<br /> $date = $entry[27];</p> <p> $post_data["post_date"] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($date));<br /> return $post_data;<br /> }</p> <p>ps: the date code is now 27 because I tried to create a custom post date field. It didn't work better than the date field </p>