library date-cast

tkeer/date-cast

A laravel package to easily play with date formats

Why

Ever wanted to show different date format on the frontend but same in Y-m-d in the db? You can easily manage date formats using DateCast. You don't need to write accessors/mutators for every field anymore., _(*1)

How it works

use trait DateCast in you model class, _(*2)

    protected $dates_to_cast = [
        scheduled_at
    ];


    $this->scheduled_at = 04/22/2018;

    //this will will stored in Y-m-d format in db
    //dumping this field will results in m/d/Y format

    dump($this->scheduled_at)
    04/22/2018

Auto parse

If you want auto detect format, _(*3)

protected $auto_parse_dates = true;, _(*4)

Different format for every field

If your date format is not detectable by Carbon or you want different format for every field, you can use $dates_cast_from_formats property., _(*5)

    protected $dates_cast_from_formats = [
        scheduled_at => 'd/m/Y'
    ];

Installation

composer require tkeer/date-cast 1.*, _(*6)