Formatting date output with Advanced custom fields in wordpress

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votes

I am struggling to get the date to output (at all!)

I have the following and I want the date to be output like 26th May 2014

            <p><?php the_field('description'); ?></p>
        <?php $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', get_field('when')); ?>
        <h2><?php echo $date->format('d-m-Y'); ?></p>

All the above is inside a wordpress loop Even if I move the variable declaration outside the loop, it still doesn;t work.

thanks

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wordpressadvanced-custom-fields

1 Answers

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This will echo:

<?php the_date('jS F Y'); ?>

This will return the value to the $date var:

<?php $date = get_the_date('jS F Y'); ?>