Bootstrapping Processwire: Date field outputs timestamp only

[Stefanowitsch]

I am bootstrapping processwire in a php file for cronjob purposes.

Everything works fine, I can output all the data from fields that I like.

What confuses me: I have a datetime field. When displaying the field value in the bootstrapped file, I only get the timestamp of the selected date.

When displaying the same field value on a page inside of processwire the field value is a formatted date.

Can somebody explain to me why this is the case and to get around this (without date formatting).

[AndZyk]

Hello @Stefanowitsch,

you get the unformatted value of the datetime field probably because output formatting is turned off when bootstraping ProcessWire.

You could try to temporarily turn it on and then turn it off again:

$page->of(true); // Turn output formatting on

echo $page->date; // Should be formatted

$page->of(false);  // Turn output formatting off again

But I would rather just format the date. ?

Regards, Andreas

[Stefanowitsch]

5 minutes ago, AndZyk said:

Hello @Stefanowitsch,

you get the unformatted value of the datetime field probably because output formatting is turned off when bootstraping ProcessWire.

You could try to temporarily turn it on and then turn it off again:

$page->of(true); // Turn output formatting on

echo $page->date; // Should be formatted

$page->of(false);  // Turn output formatting off again

But I would rather just format the date. ?

Regards, Andreas

Thanks! But this does not work unfortunately... 

However formatting the date like this was the workaround for me:

date("d.m.Y", $termin->startdatum)