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<?php
/**
 * Gravity Wiz // Gravity Forms // Add Formatting Options for Date Merge Tags
 * http://gravitywiz.com/
 * 
 * {Date:1:dmy} => 31/1/2017
 * {Date:2:l}   => Tuesday
 * 
 * See PHP's date() function documentation for full details on formatting:
 * http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
 */
add_filter( 'gform_pre_replace_merge_tags', function( $text, $form, $entry, $url_encode, $esc_html, $nl2br, $format ) {

	preg_match_all( '/{[^{]*?:(\d+(\.\d+)?)(:(.*?))?}|{entry:date_created:(.+)?}/mi', $text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER );

	foreach ( $matches as $match ) {

		$input_id = $match[1];
		$field = GFFormsModel::get_field( $form, $input_id );
		$is_entry_date = strpos( $match[0], '{entry:date_created' ) !== false;

		if( $is_entry_date ) {
			$modifier = rgar( array_map( 'trim', explode( ',', rgar( $match, 5 ) ) ), 0 );
			$value = rgar( $entry, 'date_created' );
		} else if( ! $field || $field->get_input_type() != 'date' ) {
			continue;
		} else {

			$i = $match[0][0] == '{' ? 4 : 5;
			$modifier = rgar( array_map( 'trim', explode( ',', rgar( $match, $i ) ) ), 0 );
			if( ! $modifier ) {
				continue;
			}

			$value = GFFormsModel::get_lead_field_value( $entry, $field );
			$value = $field->get_value_merge_tag( $value, $input_id, $entry, $form, $modifier, $value, $url_encode, $esc_html, $format, $nl2br );

		}

		$replace = date( $modifier, strtotime( $value ) );

		$text = str_replace( $match[0], $replace, $text );

	}

	return $text;
}, 10, 7 );