Pull elements from a date field

[icreation]

I have a field type datetime that I have configured in PW backend.

However, I want to split this down so that I can display the day and month/year separately.

echo $page->datefield;

Gives me the full date that looks like '8 November 2015'

How do I express the PHP code to just echo the '8'.

Then just echo the 'November 2015' ?

[LostKobrakai]

You can get the timestamp of the date when accessing the unformatted field data like so:

$ts = $page->getUnformatted("datefield");
$day = date("d", $ts);
$monthYear = date("F Y", $ts);

[kongondo]

Something like this should do it. But you'd want to set timezones if necessary and maybe use PHP DateTime Class for more complex needs. Read below links  PHP date

$d = strtotime($page->datefield);
echo date('d', $d) . '<br>';//e.g 8
echo date('F Y', $d);//e.g. November 2015

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php

http://php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php

Edited November 8, 2015 by kongondo

[LostKobrakai]

@kongondo

$dateStr might be confusing, as it's NOT a string anymore

[kongondo]

What LostKobrai said + you'd want to first check if there was a value saved in your date field otherwise you might get a nice 1 Jan 1970 

[SiNNuT]

iirc PHP's date() and DateTime() functions are not locale aware, so strftime() could also be of interest. http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php

[icreation]

Thanks for the replies. Appreciated.

[Chris Ernovsky]

On 11/8/2015 at 8:40 PM, LostKobrakai said:

You can get the timestamp of the date when accessing the unformatted field data like so:

$ts = $page->getUnformatted("datefield");
$day = date("d", $ts);
$monthYear = date("F Y", $ts);

@LostKobrakai, thank You for this!

I have to split a date/time field into day of week, day, month and time in a loop (an archive of events) and couldn't figure it out. I saw this function at forums several times before but didn't know I can use it with date. Awsome! Thanks again for the tip. ?