How to use Carbon in models without time (hours and seconds), just the date

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.

crazytoon

10 years ago

Level 35

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)

lcjury

10 years ago

Level 2

Forgot to say that I'm using protected $dates with protected $dateFormat. (Main post edited)

Snapey

10 years ago

Level 122

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 ?

lcjury

10 years ago

Best Answer

Level 2

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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