Laravel 4 form Date formatting

Question

I am having trying to retrive created at date from datebase on edit form: in database saved in timestamp format. how to retrive date in custom format

          {{ Form::text('project_start', Input::old('name'), array('class' => 'form-control')) }}

Answer 1

You can define an Accessor method in your related model class:

public function getCreatedAtAttribute($value)
{
    return date("Y/m/d", strtotime($value));
}

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