Format Not Applied to Special Mail Tag ‘_date’

  • WPMonkeyATL

    (@wpmonkeyatl)


    8 years ago

    CF7 v4.7 allows the special tag [_date]. It also allows to specify a format for a date tag like [_format_your-date “D, d M y”].

    THE ISSUE: It will not apply the ‘_format’ to the special date tag ‘_date’.

    Meaning, if you specify a format for the special date tag such as [_format__date “Y”] the format will be ignored. Instead, the system default date format e.g. “March 5, 2017” will be applied rather than “2017” as specified in the _format = “Y”.

    The issue occurs in include/mail.php. Currently the _format is applied on line 307, but the _date special tag is processed afterwards on line 327.

    A small change to mail.php would fix this problem, simply inserting 2 extra lines as follows after line 327 and before line 329 in mail.php:

    // mail.php line 327:
$special = apply_filters( 'wpcf7_special_mail_tags', '', $tagname, $html );

// To apply '_format' the special tag '_date':
// Insert the following after line 327 (and before line 329):
if ( ! empty( $special ) && '_date' == $tagname && ! empty( $format ) ) {
	$special = $this->format( $special, $format );
}

// mail.php line 329:
if ( ! empty( $special ) ) {
	$this->replaced_tags[$tag] = $special;
	return $special;
}

    I hope you can include this minor fix in the next release. Thank you for your help, best regards.

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  • Thread Starter WPMonkeyATL

    (@wpmonkeyatl)

    It seems the additional line I suggested above, “$special = $this->format( $special, $format );”, will not work at that particular point in mail.php.

    As a correction, try inserting these two lines instead:

    // Insert the following after line 327 (and before line 329):
if ( ! empty( $special ) && '_date' == $tagname && ! empty( $format ) ) {
	$special = mysql2date( $format, $special );
}

    I hope this helps, best regards.

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