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nrofis
nrofis

Reputation: 9766

Localize date format in Laravel

I am using Laravel 5.2 with Carbon and I trying to get dates in locale format. I mean if I have the date 2015-12-31 in the database, I want it to be printed as 12/31/2015 or 31/12/2015 depends on the user locale.

In the User model I have an attribute locale that presents the user locale. But I don't know who to make it works. I know that Laravel using Carbon for dates, but in the Carbon class I see that the format Y-m-d is hard coded.

I still need the dates will be saved in format Y-m-d and only the presentation will depends on the User->locale attribute.

So how can I achieve that behavior? Is there any way to do that with Carbon itself?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3029

Answers (2)

huuuk
huuuk

Reputation: 4795

I have solution for you.
Override getAttribute method in your model

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model
{
    use DateFormatting;

    protected $dates = [
        'finished_at',
        // other field names that you need to format
    ];

    public function getAttribute($key)
    {
        if ( array_key_exists( $key, $this->getDates() ) ) {
           // here you can format your date
        }
        return parent::getAttribute($key);
    }

}

after all you can access to this fields as usual(using magic __get())

$model->finished_at;

Upvotes: 1

dargue3
dargue3

Reputation: 2922

There is a way to do this using Carbon but it seems like it's really going to vary according to the specs of your server and what not. From reading, it seems like locale packages aren't always consistent. Use locale -a on your production server terminal to check which supported locales you have installed. If you need to install one, use sudo locale-gen <NEW LOCALE>.

But once you have your locale strings sorted out, it seems that you can say 

$date = new Carbon;

setlocale('en_GB');

echo $date->formatLocalized('%x'); // '16/06/16'

I derived the %x modifier from the strftime() function, it specifies the format to be "the preferred date representation based on locale, without the time" according to the php manual

Upvotes: 1

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