Date Format

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• admin

  April 2016 edited 12:27PM

  If you using the fuel_var function it will output the variable along with code to make it inline editable as well as apply a default parameter. You can always access the variable like so:
  $formatted_date = date('m/d/Y', strtotime($event_date)); // change the format to whatever you want echo $formatted_date;
• barcellos

  April 2016 edited 12:27PM

  Awesome. That worked for the date.
  
  Do I use the same var function for time? In the database I have them as 'start_time' and 'end_time'.
• admin

  April 2016 edited 12:27PM

  I'm not sure I understand what you mean by var function? Do you mean fuel_var or the PHP date function?
• barcellos

  April 2016 edited April 2016

  My programming rhetoric isn't so great.
  
  The time part of it is an admin function I added to Fuel, and it's suppose to display:
  5pm - 8pm, rather then 24hour time:
  
  This is what I'm using to display the time on the front end:
  
  <?php echo fuel_var('start_time', ''); ?> - <?php echo fuel_var('end_time', ''); ?>
• admin

  April 2016 edited 12:27PM

  Because fuel_var will by default also add additional code for inline editing, I'd use the raw variable and manipulate it as above.
  echo date('h:ma', strtotime($start_time)) .' - '.date('h:ma', strtotime($end_time));
  Are you familiar with the different formatters for the date function that is listed above?
  http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
• barcellos

  May 2016 edited 12:27PM

  That worked great. Referencing the date function link, I displayed it like this:
  
  echo date('ga', strtotime($start_time)) .' - '.date('ga', strtotime($end_time));
  
  Thank you.