Date format in select box

Im sending a collection of dates to a select field in a laravel form. These collections are in $statements.

I want the format of the date to be dd/mm/yyyy.

The select box gives me yyyy-mm-dd.

{{ Form::label('statement', 'Statement: ')}}
{{ Form::select('statement', $statements, array('class' => 'form-control input-lg')) }}

How can I format the date the way I want it?

lyleyboy

8 years ago

Level 16

I think you might be digging a bit deep into this one. Just format the date.

$date = date( j/m/Y , strtotime( $request->date )  )

Or a more Laravely way might be to use Carbon

Use this to create a Carbon instance from the passed data.

Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H', '1975-05-21 22')

And then maybe if you're storing this back to a database you could

Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H', '1975-05-21 22')->toDateTimeString();

cre3z

8 years ago

Level 2

as @lyleyboy suggest you are better off formatting the date before you send it through as your select will only display options and is not of type="date" input. If the input you were sending it too where a date input you could set this in your HTML form.

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