Carbon only day of date and month only letters

An example :

$t = Carbon::now();
$t->day;
$t->month // or $t->format('proper date format accepted by PHP')

i need something like this:

$post->published_at->day

?

If Post is your Eloquent model, first thing is to do is to add

protected $dates = ['published_at'];

Now access all the properties as a Carbon instance.

But I get an error like this:

Trying to get property of non-object

@premsaurav Yea I have the protected date too

I am not sure how you are accessing it.

try dd($post) => should see a post instance and then dd($post->published_at) => should see a carbon instance

If you have everything set up properly above should work. Also, check for the datatype for published_at column

I do have a mutator:

public function getPublishedAtAttribute($value)
    {
        return Carbon::parse($value)->format('d.m.Y H:i:s');
    }

Not sure if this can be the cause of problems...

And the property is a datetime property not just date....

Yes for sure this will create a problem. You don't need a accessor, if working with carbon, its taken care for you. You accessor converts it to string and hence the error.

hmm, but i need this mutator, im from europe, i need to show dates in a certain format..., d.m.Y.

Your mutator getPublishedAtAttribute transform your published_at into a string.

You could do something like

public function getPublishedAtFormattedAttribute($value)
    {
        return $this->published_at->format('d.m.Y H:i:s');
    }

$post->published_at_formatted;

// or 
$post->published_at->format('d.m.Y H:i:s');

any ideas for a workaround to this?

Ok guys, thanks a lot, ill try this out.

@premsaurav @vtalbot I cant seem to find hot to get only the month in the short form jan, dec, etc... any ideas?

$post->published_at->format('M');

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php