I'm using the following
protected $dates = ['date'];
protected $dateFormat = 'm/d/Y';
. So, what I expect is when I do: $model->date = "10/16/1991" it stores that date inside Carbon (And that is what happens), the problem is, when I do {{$model->date}} on a view, it prints: 1991-10-16 01:06:14.
What I try until now?, I try to change the function getDateAttribute, but I do want to return a Carbon instance instead of just a string.
So, what could solve my problem is if I could tell carbon that, when the carbon instance is printed it use an especific format.
Why? I want to avoid using {{$model->date->format('m/d/Y')}} in the view and just use {{$model->date}} but with the latter returning a carbon instance.
Have you tried?: protected $dates = ['field_name'];
Obviously change the field_name with your field name. Add it to the model you want to use it with.
(I am not sure I understood your question correctly tho.. so just clarify if this is not what you wanted)
Forgot to say that I'm using protected $dates with protected $dateFormat. (Main post edited)
You can use the setToStringFormat command to change the default format, but I'm not sure if this is global or can be used against a specific carbon instance. see http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-formatting
You might be able to use a mutator, set the default string format and then return the carbon object ?
Ok, so, my problem really was that I was trying to use the date format 'd/m/Y' when the date type of mysql stores it in another format. So, I missunderstood$dateFormat. My solution is:
protected $dates = ['birthday'];
public function setBirthdayAttribute($birthday){
return $this->attributes['birthday'] = \Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $birthday);
}
public function getBirthdayAttribute($birthday){
return $this->asDateTime($birthday)->format('d/m/Y');
}
So, I was expecting for $dateFormat to do all that boilerplate code, I don't know why there isn't any property that let me do this without having explicitly write the getters & setters.
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