[SOLVED] Formatting output - strip character from output and current date

Hi Guys

I'm working with a delimiter field, and I need some reformating of the current field values.

How do I make my field 'cb_birthday' show the date without the '-', ie. instead of 1970-05-20 it shows 19700520?

Secondly, how do I get the current date and time shown like: 20143011T093610Z?

There are no formatting features for substitutions. So what you're wanting can't be done. You can only specify a date format when substituting in the current date (special substitution). Substitutions have no idea a date field is a date field. The fields output would already need to be formatted how you're wanting. This could be done with a CB Query Field for example then substitute in the query field.

Ok, so I can do the latter with special substitution, and the former with a query field. Is there a doc that explains the special substitution?

I found an article that explained a bit about it.
How come this doesn't work?
rev=[cb:date format="Ymd" /]T000000Z
It just shows the text as shown here.

If I could use this:
Date=[cb:date format="Ymd" /]T[cb:date format="His" /]Z
That would give me the current time as well.
But the delimiter field just shows the unsubstituted text.

You need to supply a valid PHP date function format for it to output. Please see the below for PHP date format usage.

php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Please see the below tutorial for substitution usage information.

www.joomlapolis.com/support/tutorials/107-use-cases/18353-using-substitutions-throughout-cb

You need to be sure the substitution is being used in a location that supports substitutions as well.

The following appears to display fine in all my tests.

[cb:date format="Y-m-d" /]