CCK date field with no default value returns current date

My thoughts: at first glance, this is a Token issue. Fill PDF doesn't alter date values in any way prior to filling them in. Does this also happen in the -dev version?

I would search the Token issue queue to see if anyone has reported this there. If you are using a formatted date token (e.g. :medium), try using the date token straight and see what happens.

Let me know.

Ack, that's a nasty one. I'll leave this open to see if a workaround can be implemented somehow. After all, I do know what data is being sent to the token before it's done, so I can check for a discrepancy and manually blank it out before it's sent to the PDF (or just skip that field and blank it out, etc.).

Thanks for reporting this.

The related issue isn't fixed, but I'm not going to do anything on my end. A contrib solution might exist.

I know this was a while ago but I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out where to change anything to leave a blank date blank. Anyone successfully fix this? I will even go so far as to change core at this point if I need to!

In case anyone comes across this, I know it is a ridiculous solution but it works for me. It checks if the token contains ':custom:m/d/Y]' (all of my dates do but change this to something unique about yours) and if it does and is equal to "" then it just unsets the object for that one so it can't return any value.

// --- node token replacements
      if (!empty($nodes)) {
        foreach ($nodes as $node) {
          $token_objects['node'] = $node;
		  
		  
			//Custom Code - Get field name from $obj-value and if equal to "", unset $obj
			$strlen = ($obj->value);
		    $left_side = strpos($obj->value, '[node:');
            $right_side = strpos($obj->value, '');
            $field_name = substr($obj->value, 6, $strlen - 14);
			$newfieldname = str_replace("-","_",$field_name);
			
			$returnVal = field_get_items('node',$node, $newfieldname);
			$testVal = $returnVal[0]['value'];
		  
		//watchdog('fillpdf', 'Watchdog "%form" for node value "%node" with test of "%test".', array(
		//		'%form' => $obj->value,
		//		'%test' => $newfieldname,
		//		'%node' => $testVal,));
				
			if (strstr($obj->value, ':custom:m/d/Y]') && $testVal == "") { unset($obj); }

#9 worked for me, fillpdf.module - version = "7.x-1.14" line 521