Use Carbon at blade template

You need to use the full namespace

\Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('m/d/Y', $article->auction_end)

To make it easier for you and even more readable you can use an accessor for displaying data or simply a custom function on your model

// Article.php

public function auctionEndDate()
{
    return Carbon::createFromFormat('m/d/Y', $this->auction_end);
}

Documentation: http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent-mutators#accessors-and-mutators

hm, when I try to use first solution I get:

ErrorException in Carbon.php line 425: Trailing data (View: C:\wamp\www\learn5\resources\views\articles\auction.blade.php)

the second solution give me error: FatalErrorException in d71b18e337000969eb7d71ba455536d5 line 13: Call to undefined function auctionEndDate()

Take a look, made by Jeffrey https://github.com/laracasts/Presenter

@bobbybouwmann

Hi Bobby, I have the similar problem, but your offered solution did not work for me.

I am storing carbon dates into the DB. I retrieve them, and they are formatted Y-M-D Not very nice.

all I want to do is present them in Blade as Dec 17 2015.

I have read the docs on mutators and watched Jeffrey's lesson on dates, and neither source explains how to do this. I would prefer not to have to start building new classes just to present data in views as per the presenter video.

How is it done ?? Many thanks !

@vincej You just define an accessor in your model like so

public function getCreatedAtAttribute($value)
{
    return $value->format('M d Y');
}

Note: Everything you call $modal->created_at you will get this value.

You can however just create a simple function in your model to get that value

public function formattedDate()
{
    return $this->created_at->format('M d Y');
}

You can then call it in your views and classes like so $model->formattedDate();

@aleksov @vincej

Step 1.

In your Article set a

protected $dates = ['created_at', 'updated_at','auction_end'];

Step 2. In your blade file do

{{ $article->auction_end->format('M d Y'); }}

or whatever format you want to display as.

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent-mutators#date-mutators

@bobbybouwmann @nfauchelle

sorry, I still am a bit foggy. I have set the protected $dates as per jeffrey's video, like this to include my "approval_date".

protected $dates = ['approval_date','created_at', 'updated_at', 'deleted_at' ];

Then my controller requests my model to pull a whole row of data from the DB.

$date = (Carbon::now()->subDays(30));
  $contractor_invoices = $this->invoice->find_historical_invoices($this->id,$date);

Model:

    public function find_historical_invoices($id,$date )
    {
        return DB::table('contractor_invoices')
            ->where('contractor_id','=', $id)
            ->where('approval_date','<',$date)
            ->where('status','=','approved')
            ->select('*')
            ->orderBy('approval_date', 'asc')
            ->get();
    }

Now, In my View, I have passed the result from the DB query in a variable : {{$contractor_invoices}} which I run a foreach loop on to get all the separate invoices and their dates. So, I end up with {{invoices->approval_date}}

So, I need to format this into Month / Day/ Year.

How do I do this, what have I missed. I did look at the docs you mentioned, but it did not jump out at me.

Many thanks !

If you're using the query builder rather than Eloquent, setting the $dates property does nothing. Adding a function on the model does nothing either because the query builder does not return collections of the model. You should be using Eloquent if you want to take full advantage of its features.

@thomaskim Thanks for that. I looked at Eloquent, however it is not obvious how to do a multiple level conditional, I can only see the ability to have a single "where" clause.

Have I missed something in eloquent ?

@vincej

You can chain there where with Eloquent too.

ie;

return ContractorInvoice::where('contractor_id','=', $id)
        ->where('approval_date','<',$date)
        ->where('status','=','approved')
        ->orderBy('approval_date', 'asc')
        ->get();

if ContractorInvoice is your model.. would do.

If your pasted your controller and models to a paste bin like http://kopy.io/ I could help some more.

@nfauchelle

Thanks so much for the heads up on the Eloquent multiple where statement ! I somehow had missed that. I'm not sure it's in the docs.

Ok, so I amended my model and it is working nicely. I am getting a nice Eloquent collection out.

Ok - so you asked me to provide you the rest of my model / view code. I have copied it to kopy.io. All I need to do now is get the date formats right. I use them all through my code. This is just one place. I am clueless how to get the format into M-D-Y using Carbon. I've been using Unix date stamps up until now.

http://kopy.io/ehzdb

MANY THANKS ! for helping out !

Now that you're using Eloquent and included the "approval_date" in your $dates array, that value is now a Carbon Object in your views. Meaning in your view you can just

$invoices->approval_date->format('M-D-Y ');

or use any of Carbon's methods.

@jonmolnar Great ! Thanks ! That worked ! I had not realised that you needed to use Eloquent for Carbon.

Just noting the original question, I am able to use Carbon in blade by using the full namespace as @bobbybouwmann put forward.

// Example to show 2015-12-19
{{ \Carbon\Carbon::now()->toDateString() }} 

You can also import the namespace at the top of your template with:

<?php
use Carbon\Carbon;
?>

which would then let you call it with just Carbon:: instead of \Carbon\Carbon but I am not sure if that is a best practice.

@bobbybouwmann

Hi Bobby - I have read through your post, I think I followed your instructions, however, I am still getting an error, when using:

 <td> {{\Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('m/d/Y', $quotes->created_at)}}</td>

The error reads:

ErrorException in Carbon.php line 414: The separation symbol could not be found Unexpected data found. Trailing data (View: /var/www/auburntree/resources/views/quotations/open_quotes.blade.php)

What am I doing wrong ?

Well you use the function createFromFormat, this means that you are creating a new Carbon instance. The means that the value you pass in must match the format. I see that you pass in created_at, this is however a datetime field, and therefore it does not match the format. Also the created_at field in Laravel is always a Carbon instance, you don't have to convert it here ;)

@bobbybouwmann Ok Thanks for that. However how do I change the format of the date time. It currently presented as year / month / day / minutes / secs and I want it day / month / year / minutes.

You can call the format method on a Carbon object

$date = Carbon::today();

$date->format('d/m/Y/H');

@bobbybouwmann sure, understood, however I need to be able to do it inside a blade file, as the Create_at is wrapped up inside a broader query on the table, and so I am doing a foreach() inside Blade, to get all the separate values.

Here another discussion on how to use carbon on blade which actually workes

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/how-to-format-created-at-in-blade-using-carbon

I have done {!! \Carbon\Carbon::parse($end_date)->format('d/m/Y') !!} And it works like a charm..

Hi guys, I'm getting here now.

For those like me who fell into this post now in 2021 looking for the solution, I managed to make use of Carbon on the blade by adding the class in the config/app.php file in the aliases line; getting like this:

'aliases' => [

...

'Carbon' => Illuminate\Support\Carbon::class,

...

];

So I could use Carbon in php scripts calling only:

use Carbon;

and on Blade like this:

{{Carbon::parse($item->due_at)->format('d/m/Y')}}

I hope I have helped those in need.

And sorry to reopen an old topic.