Date Picker

How can I use this action hook, function…..?

// CREATE UNIX TIME STAMP FROM DATE PICKER
function custom_unixtimesamp ( $post_id ) {
if ( get_post_type( $post_id ) == ‘events’ ) {
$startdate = get_post_meta($post_id, ‘startdate’, true);

if($startdate) {
$dateparts = explode(‘/’, $startdate);
$newdate1 = strtotime(date(‘d.m.Y H:i:s’, strtotime($dateparts[1].’/’.$dateparts[0].’/’.$dateparts[2])));
update_post_meta($post_id, ‘unixstartdate’, $newdate1 );
}
}
}
add_action( ‘save_post’, ‘custom_unixtimesamp’, 100, 2);

Hello Robbie59,

Please type single character ‘y’ then it will work. Please let me know if you have any complexity.

Thank You. 🙂

Thanks, but that did not work.

When I use the date field,with meta value as “start_date” I get this: 2014/11/25 00:00:00

I need the date to converted to unix date.
Something like this: 1416531600

I need this to work really bad

Are you talking about the hook? I never got that to work..

Hello Robbie59,

From the back-end please type single character “dd/mm/y” in Date Format field hope it will work. Please let me know if you have any complexity.

Thank You. 🙂

Thanks,

I did your suggestion and the format printed as 11/20/14.

I need it so save to the database in unix format. i.e.: Something like this: 1416531600

Hello Robbie,

Currently we do not have any function in unix format. But you can do you own, Please follow this manual http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php.

Thank You. 🙂