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midodesign
midodesign

Reputation: 318

I want to add and use function in laravel

I want to add a new function called Age to calculate age of a person using his birthday. So I worked with Resource Controller (RESTFUL). I don't know how to add this function and how to use it in views.

My function is :

public function getBirthday($date){
    return (int) ((time() - strtotime($date)) / 3600 / 24 / 365);
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 90

Answers (1)

jedrzej.kurylo
jedrzej.kurylo

Reputation: 40909

First of all, add that method that would return person's age to your Person model class:

public function getAgeAttribute() {
  return (int) ((time() - strtotime($this->born_at) / 3600 / 24 / 365);
}

In your controller you'll need to pass a model object to the view:

public someControllerAction() {
  // get person from the database or create a new model
  $person = ...;

  return view('some.view')->with(['person' => $person]);
}

And then, in the Blade template you can display age by doing:

{{ $person->age }}

I'm just not sure why you mention resource controllers. Usually they do not have a related view that they use to render HTML, but instead they return plain data, that is later serialized (e.g. to JSON) and used as controller response.

Upvotes: 2

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