Date format Issue

{{$po->date}}

works fine but

{{$po->date->format('m/d/Y')}}

Gives this error

Call to a member function format() on string

Best Answer

Level 67

date needs to be a carbon instance for that. There's an easy way to set that: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/eloquent-mutators#date-mutators

alternatively

{{ Carbon\Carbon::parse($po->date)->format('m/d/Y') }}

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