Wordpress PHP shortcode returning Unix date stamp. How to convert to dd/mm/yyyy?

Question

I'm using a page builder on my Wordpress site which allows editing of the PHP. On a page I wanted to add a custom field which shows an expiry date set by a plugin.

I did this by adding:

<?php echo do_shortcode("[oxygen data='meta' key='_expiration-date']"); ?>

This works, but the date and time returned is in a Unix format(?) so it looks like: 1538329800

Is there a way to convert this number to a proper text output to be displayed on pages?

Possible duplicate of [Converting a UNIX Timestamp to Formatted Date String](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10040291/converting-a-unix-timestamp-to-formatted-date-string) — Andreas, Sep 30 '18 at 07:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 30 '18 at 07:09

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Try the following

<?php echo date("d/m/Y",do_shortcode("[oxygen data='meta' key='_expiration-date']")); ?>

Hope it works for you.

answered Sep 30 '18 at 07:09

Piyush Bansal

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 30 '18 at 07:13

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Use This (I included time as well if you want that too0

echo date("d-m-Y h:i:sa", do_shortcode("[oxygen data='meta' key='_expiration-date']"));

answered Sep 30 '18 at 07:13

Mason Stedman

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Wordpress PHP shortcode returning Unix date stamp. How to convert to dd/mm/yyyy?

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