Date formating for json response

Hi @Čamo

You can use API Resources which allows to choose how you want to return each field for json responses

ref: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-resources#concept-overview

Then, for your date fields you can use Carbon formatting methods to return the date as desired:

String Formatting: https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-formatting

Common Formats: https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-commonformats

Hope this helps.

There is no simpler way to do it? I think some kind of getter?

@Čamo sure

You can define an accessor:

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-mutators#defining-an-accessor

I use:

$tdate = new \DateTime($array[$i][2]);  // comes in comma delimited format
$ndate = $tdate->format('Y-m-d');

$ndate is properly formatted date.

You could use a helper if wanted, an accessor, whatever.

Note, I am old school I still like "getter, setter".

@marianomoreyra Yes accessor. That's it. Accessor + $append = ['fieldName'] https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/eloquent-serialization#appending-values-to-json

Thank you.

@Čamo Dates in resources don’t come in a “raw” format, but rather ISO 8601 format. ISO 8601-formatted dates are supported in pretty much every programming language, including JavaScript.

Yes but I dont want to mess with dates in javascript. Hope mess is the right word...