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ACF repeater order by date sub field

Ask Time:2020-06-02T19:11:58         Author:Jay

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I have been trying to order my ACF subfields by date order, however it isn't working quite right. It should go

01/06/2020 20/05/2020 14/05/2020 10/05/2020

but it currently goes

01/06/2020 10/05/2020 14/05/2020 20/05/2020

this is my code, can someone please tell me where I have gone wrong?

<section class="news-updates">
        <?php
    $repeater = get_field('news_repeater');
    $order = array();

    if( $repeater ):
        foreach( $repeater as $i => $row ) {

            $eventdate = $row['news_date'];
            $order[ $i ] = $eventdate;

        }
    array_multisort( $order, SORT_ASC, $repeater );
?>



        <table class="news">
            <?php foreach( $repeater as $i => $row ): ?>
            <?php
                $eventdate = $row['news_date'];
             ?>


            <div class="news-item">
                <div class="news-date"><?php echo $eventdate; ?></div>
                <div class="news-content"><?php echo $row['description']; ?></div>
            </div>


            <?php endforeach; ?>
        </table>
        <?php

?>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </section>

I have looked all over the internet but can't seem to figure it out.

Author:Jay,eproduced under the CC 4.0 BY-SA copyright license with a link to the original source and this disclaimer.
Link to original article:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62150710/acf-repeater-order-by-date-sub-field
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