Bug and question

Hello @carcayu80 ,

This is a known bug and Forminator team is working on fixing it. But we don’t have ETA yet.

On the other side, is there any way to define the first column day in the calendar pop up? I mean, sunday instead of monday for american users.

This is controlled by WordPress Settings, please see screenshot:

https://monosnap.com/file/Z73RC3bxg8b5os68qmGv49HqAolv8P

kind regards,
Kasia

Thanks! Just another question. We have both american and non american but english speaking clients. It is important to be clear things like the start date of a trip, for example.

We use visual calendar to pick the day, but that date must be written like a text when sending e-mail confirmation, obviously.

If a use datepicker
Label > Calendar
and then
Label> Date format,

Only formats like “d-m-Y, d/m/Y”, etc are available. I mean, only numbers

Is there any way to specify a date format in e-mail confirmation like “January 4, 2023” (F j, Y)?

So there will be no doubt if the firt is the month or the day of the start date.

Thanks in advance

Hi @carcayu80,

There isn’t an out of the box setting in the plugin side, but you could try this custom snippet and see whether it helps:

<?php

add_filter( 'forminator_custom_form_mail_admin_message', 'wpmudev_show_formatted_date', 10, 5 );
function wpmudev_show_formatted_date( $message, $custom_form, $data, $entry, $cls ) {
  	if ( $custom_form->id == 1189 ) { //Please change the form ID here
		preg_match_all('/\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}/', $message, $matches);
		foreach ( $matches as $date ) {
			if ( ! empty( $date ) ) {
				foreach ( $date as $key => $val ) {
					$message = str_replace( $val, date( 'F j, Y', strtotime( $val ) ), $message ) ;
				} 
			}
		}
	}
	return $message;
}

You’ll have to replace the number 1189 in the above code with your form ID to get the snippet to work.

Suppose the form ID is 123 the the line will change to:

if ( $custom_form->id == 123 ) { 

I gave a quick test and can confirm the above code work. You can apply the above code as a mu-plugins. Please check this link on how to implement the above code as a mu-plugins:

https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins

Please do let us know how that goes.

Best Regards,

Nithin

Thanks a lot. It works like a charm.

In case I’d like to change it for all forms, I’ve just to delete the “if” sentence, is that right? I mean:

<?php

add_filter( 'forminator_custom_form_mail_admin_message', 'wpmudev_show_formatted_date', 10, 5 );
function wpmudev_show_formatted_date( $message, $custom_form, $data, $entry, $cls ) {
		preg_match_all('/\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}/', $message, $matches);
		foreach ( $matches as $date ) {
			if ( ! empty( $date ) ) {
				foreach ( $date as $key => $val ) {
					$message = str_replace( $val, date( 'F j, Y', strtotime( $val ) ), $message ) ;
				} 
			}
		}
	return $message;
}

Sorry, one more thing: It seems it doesnt change the date in the subject. I mean, also in “e-mail notification” -> “Subject” I add the {date-1} code

Hi @carcayu80

I pinged our SLS Team to review your query and see can we make some updates in this snippet so it could support SUBJECT part as well. We will post an update here as soon as more information is available.

Kind Regards,
Kris

Hi again @carcayu80

You will need a separate snippet as mu-plugin in this case:

add_filter( 'forminator_custom_form_mail_admin_subject', 'wpmudev_show_formatted_date_subj', 10, 5 );
 function wpmudev_show_formatted_date_subj( $subject, $custom_form, $data, $entry, $cls ) {
       if ( $custom_form->id == 1189 ) { //Please change the form ID here
         preg_match_all('/\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}/', $subject, $matches);
         foreach ( $matches as $date ) {
             if ( ! empty( $date ) ) {
                 foreach ( $date as $key => $val ) {
                     $subject = str_replace( $val, date( 'F j, Y', strtotime( $val ) ), $subject ) ;
                 } 
             }
         }
     }
     return $subject;
 }

As mentioned above it should be followed by this guide + change the ID of form
https://wpmudev.com/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins

Kind Regards,
Kris

Sorry, brand new father, not enough time to answer before.

Thanks a lot, It works perfect. Its incredible the support you give, keeping in mind it is a free plugin. Indeed, best support even than other paid plugins