Title: Admin menu, custom post types and input values.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Admin menu, custom post types and input values.

 *  [minkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minkowski/)
 * (@minkowski)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-menu-custom-post-types-and-input-values/)
 * OK
 * I have built a new custom post type called events and am building in the input
   forms for the start and end dates into the custom admin page.
 * I’ve built the page as I need to it to look and work apart from a few details.
 * I have the date input to be a simple select for month and text inputs for day,
   year, etc.
 * Each of these values is sent via ‘get_post_custom( $post -> ID )’ so I can retrieve
   the values easily.
 * My problem is that i need to sanitise and process these values rather than sending
   them raw.
 * Currently it sends a value for year, month, etc. but I’d like to run a check 
   to make sure that all of the inputted variables are in fact numbers and then 
   turn them into a timestamp so I’m actually only sending one value each for Start
   Date and End Date.
 * I hope I’m being clear as I’ve been staring at this for a while and I’m getting
   nowhere.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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