Creating Publish Date from Date Field?

Currently this isn't possible. We will add it to our feature ideas list and could potentially add it as a feature in a future release.

Hi, bluetidepro,

We are sorry about the delay in responding as we have been working on Priority Support requests. We normally respond sooner than this. If you want to set what the publish date will be on the post you can do something similar to below. This code sets the post date/time based on fields on the form. In my example I have set a future date so the post winds up being "Scheduled" with the date/time chosen on the form as the "Scheduled for" date. Let me know if you have questions about the code.

add_filter("gform_post_data", "set_post_date", 10, 2);
function set_post_date($post_data, $form){
    //only do this when the form id is 23
    if($form["id"] != 23)
       return $post_data;

	//set post date to field on form if date provided; get from POSTed data
	//using a date field in mm/dd/yyyy format and a time field in 24 hour format
	$date_value = rgpost("input_6"); //pull the date value from the form data posted, field 6 on my form
	$time = rgpost("input_7"); //pull the time value from the form data posted, field 7 on my form
	//only change post date/time when a date has been chosen
	if (!empty($date_value))
	{
		if (empty($time))
		{
			//set default time
			$time_value = "00:00:00";
		}
		else
		{
			empty($time[0]) ? $time_hours = "00" : $time_hours = $time[0]; //pull hours out of array
			empty($time[1]) ? $time_minutes = "00" : $time_minutes = $time[1]; //pull minutes out of array
			$time_value = $time_hours . ":" . $time_minutes . ":00"; //add on seconds
		}
		//convert post date to the appropriate format so it will be inserted into the database
		$post_date = date("Y-m-d H:i:s",strtotime($date_value . " " . $time_value));

    	$post_data["post_date"] = $post_date; //set the post_date
	}
    return $post_data; //return the changed data to use when the post is created
}