I have a date field I'm pulling from WordPress, where the default format is:
16/12/2016
Been a while since I played with PHP, but I remember the way to format dates was: echo date_format($date,"[format syntax]");
But when I do
$date = myWPField;
echo date_format($date,"F d, y");
If doesn't display the date.
What am I missing. Has this changed?
Since your date is not an acceptable format in date_create like mm/dd/yy(yy) or mm-dd-yy(yy)
Use php DateTime::createFromFormat function instead this function can detect what format you
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7) DateTime::createFromFormat -- date_create_from_format — Parses a time string according to a specified format
$date = '16/12/2016';
$show_date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $date)->format('F d, y');
when create data format form string use slash format, it's in the mm/dd/yy(yy) format. So in you code your first 16 is not allowed by default, you have to specify in what format to create from the string.
Note that when you create a new date object using a format with slashes and dashes (eg 02-02-2012 or 02/02/2012) it must be in the mm/dd/yy(yy) or mm-dd-yy(yy) format (rather than british format dd/mm/yy)! Months always before years (the american style) otherwise you'll get an incorrect date and may get an error like the one above (where PHP is crashing on trying to decode a 13th month).
