Cannot display date

How have you converted the json sent from your controller into a date object?

@SNAPEY - I am getting this value from data.invoice['date'] 2019-05-23 16:05:00

and my controller code is :

        $invoice = Purchase::find($id)->toArray();
        $items = Purchase::find($id)->items->toArray();
        return response()->json(array('invoice'=>$invoice,'items'=>$items));

UPDATE : here is the Input element :

<input type="datetime-local" class="form-control" name="date" id="date" value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d');echo 'T';echo date ('H');echo ':';echo date('i');?>" required="required">

Totally different code now then?

@SNAPEY - THEN was ajax code and NOW is the supporting code. Ajax code is displaying result from controller code to an in Input element.

So back to my original observation. You have sent a string (which happens to be a date) to the client but then you are trying to apply date formatting to it. You would need to convert it to a javascript date object before you could do that.

Alternatively in your Purchase model;

create a getter and append it to the response

protected $appends = ['formattedDate'];

public getFormattedDateAttribute()
{
    return $this->date->format('Y-m-d\TH:i');
}

assumes you have already told eloquent that date should be cast to Carbon

and then use $('#date').text(data.invoice['formattedDate'])

Alternatively

https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/eloquent-serialization#date-serialization

Have you tried just:

$('#date').val(data.invoice['date']);

@JLRDW - Yes, it give me blank input element.

@SNAPEY - It throws following error : LOG.error: Call to a member function format() on string {"userId":161,"exception":{}}

My model code is as under : (have i done it right ?)

class Purchase extends Model
{
    //
    protected $guarded = [];
    protected $appends = ['formattedDate'];

    public function getFormattedDateAttribute()
    {
    return $this->date->format('Y-m-d\TH:i');
    }
}

assumes you have already told eloquent that date should be cast to Carbon

I am new to web development and Laravel. Was unable to understand Carbon. Ended up using Moment.js

$('#date').val(moment(data.invoice.date).format("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm"));